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11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged chips — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors
What happened
Russian firm Tramplin Electronics claims to have developed 16-core and 32-core Irtysh processors, which appear to be rebadged Loongson LS3C6000 CPUs. This is a sanctions-evasion move to supply Russia's domestic data center market, which is cut off from AMD/Intel x86 chips. Neutral: This is a niche, politically-driven product substitution with no direct impact on global semiconductor supply, demand, or pricing.
Impact and signal
Low impactImpact score: 10/100
Affected components and suppliers
CPU
Loongson Technology
sanctionsrebrandingRussia
Source and time
Source: Tom's Hardware · 3/13/2026 · View original source
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