Russian chipmakers demo homegrown RISC-V and Arm silicon with retro games

At the Microelectronics 26 forum in Sochi, Russian companies showed homegrown silicon: Baikal's BE-U1000 RISC-V microcontroller, the Arm-based Elvis Hypercom-U SoC, and Elbrus-based PCs. Demos ran retro games including Chip 'n Dale and the original Super Mario.

• Baikal BE-U1000: three RISC-V cores up to 200 MHz, 256 KB flash, 192 KB SRAM
• Elvis Hypercom-U: four Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.2 GHz, PowerVR GE8300 GPU, up to 8 GB LPDDR4
• Elbrus-16S: 16 cores up to 2 GHz, 16 nm, 12 billion transistors, up to 8 channels DDR4-3200
• Demos ran Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and the original Super Mario