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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

Russia's Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more

Baikal Electronics.

Baikal Electronics, a Russian CPU developer, has managed to produce and sell 85,000 of its processors between its founding in 2012 and the end of 2024. Although the company has designed CPUs for all types of applications, the majority of 85,000 units were low-end Baikal-T for embedded applications that the company obtained before 2022, reports CNews. It seems the company's management is looking to create more CPUs do address the need for domestic PCs

Baikal Electronics had delivered 17,000 processors to the Russian market as of 2019. At that time, the company operated with a single office and employed 81 people. By the end of 2024, chip volumes had grown fivefold, reaching 85,000 units, while the company expanded to four offices and doubled its headcount to 200 employees, according to a presentation by Andrey Evdokimov, chief executive of Baikal. That is all despite the company's bankruptcy in mid-2023. 

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