Hardware

Whoever comes in after Putin will probably be of the same mind and possibly be even more extreme.

Better dependent on China than countries attempting to overthrow Russia.

There's precisely one person in Russia who actually thinks it's a good idea, and he's 71.

That's not true. There is a decent minority of hyper nationalists (even more so than the average russian - who is basically genocidal if you know how to read them) who support this. They may not know what "LoongArch 64" or Linux is, but they definitely support "independence от пиндосов".

The "it's only putin" pitch is a ruse used by alleged russian liberals.

And then you have the vast majority who in principle might like the idea of having an iPhone, but when it comes to actions (or lack of thereof) they will always choose the path that leads to imperialism, authoritarianism and razing their neighbour's cities to rubble.

They had a unique opportunity in the late 80s and look what kind of society they built in the last 30 years.

Hell I'm pretty sure that some of the hardware vendors are still operating in Russia to some extent, like MSI - way too many ads online from them, stores are still claiming 'official warranty' etc

It is ludicrous, but it makes for a topical headline so here we are.

Shitty headlines, welcome to the media

Seeing as how LoongArch is essentially a fork of MIPS64r6 it wouldn't surprise me if most of the existing MIPS toolchains worked with little modification. This is a Linux ecosystem they're using after all.

These chips are like the great-great grandchildren of the same ones you'd find in older routers.

Not really, translation layer/virtual machine is standard in compute these days. KVM, VMWare, Rosetta on Apple, or Kubernetes/Dockers. RISC-V is building on RISC-4 instruction sets, so compilers and all will be there. These are barriers thought up by politicos with limited tech knowledge, then get surprised by the speed of change.

SMIC say it is possible to use DUV for 2nm. Yes there will be a split standard, US or China.

you really think its going to work on Windows?

You "feel" like? Ok.

Old rc aircraft like plane or helicopter don't even have microncontroller, they stabilize only with pilot input and mechanical gyro, and can be equipped with camera and vtx for BLOS control.

Modern rc aircraft does have eletronics components for better control/smaller size, but the computing requirement is small for it to stabilize. Plane in particular is stable by design, so the computing requirement is so small that the radio receiver directly drive servo output from pilot input and electronics gyro, without the use of external control circuit. Multicopter also needs little computing to hover, but quite a bit more for aggresive maneuver (currently flight controller using stm32f4 is very popular, which has clock speed of 168MHz, much lower than commerical computer's but is more than enough for the purpose)

Russia certainly can make their own manual suicide drone without importing any parts. Autonomous drone otoh is hard because it requires computer vision algorithm running inference to detect target, which requires edge gpu (which is nvidia only) or computer-like cpu to run real-time with usable update rate. Trade-off can be made by lower camera resolution to the extreme for faster processing speed, at the cost of not being able to capture feature that enable more sophisticate differentiation.

They're probably looking at it and trying, but it'll take years to ramp it up to where ARM is, it's the decades of toolchains and support and libraries around ARM and x86 that are sticky.

For anything new or interesting, they (and many others) are. But Loonsoon exists today, which is probably what Russia wants.

Most of China supersuper maker are using RISC V. For desktop, China will not intervene too much. China like competition, x86, ARM, RISC V, Loongarch.

China already has a bunch of RISC-V chips in the works, but that takes time. Meanwhile, their MIPS chips have been around for 15+ years at this point and have high availability.