Wouldn't it be weird if they produced cpus, in-house, that smeared the floor with intel and amd?
And the prices are so reasonable.
Who collects these newly manufactured, half-baked, under powered garbage Russian chips?Well, they'll be "gotta-haves" for the chip collectors.
Tragically, they no longer have DEC to swipe from.
That said, I'm all for less homogeneity in computers, even if it is only happening thanks to Putin's paranoid isolationist policies.
Yup, 256x84-bit register file VLIW architecture.
Interesting CPU. Apparently, the firmware for the x86 translation is kept on a CF card
Strange. I wonder what the performance hit is. It was horrific for Itanium.