Baikal CPU
Baikal CPU is a line of MIPS and ARM-based microprocessors developed by fabless design firm Baikal Electronics, a spin-off of the Russian supercomputer company T-Platforms.

Design
Judging by the information available from online sources Baikal Electronics have selected a different approach compared to other Russian microprocessor initiatives such as the Elbrus-2SM, Elbrus-8S by MCST, and the Multiclet line of chips. The design by Baikal Electronics is based on existing commercial IP Cores from Imagination Technologies and ARM Holdings, compared to the more innovative approach of Multiclet, and the Elbrus CPU which has a history dating back to the Elbrus supercomputers from the Soviet Union.

History
March, 2015, Synopsys Inc. announced that Baikal Electronics has selected Synopsys Solutions to accelerate design and verification of their advanced System on chips.

May, 2015, Baikal Electronics and Imagination Technologies announced that the first commercial Baikal microprocessor will be based on the MIPS Warrior P5600, and it will be called Baikal-T1. The first samples of the new CPU will be available starting from June, 2015.

Baikal-T1

The Baikal-T1 mainly targets applications for networking and industrial automation, with features such as hardware support for virtualization and a high performance 128-bit SIMD engine.

March, 2016 it was announced on the Imagination Technologies blog that a desktop PC called the Tavolga Terminal, also known as the Meadowsweet Terminal PC  is available to order from T-Platforms. The computer is based on the Baikal-T1 CPU, SM750 Graphics processing unit and the Debian Linux as the operating system.

Baikal BE-M1000 
In October 2021, Baikal Electronics announced that it had started shipping the BE-M1000, a System on a Chip with eight ARM Cortex-A57 cores, an 8-core Mali-T628 GPU, HDMI, PCI Express, 10Gb Ethernet and SATA. The CPUs are made by TSMC in a 28nm process. Baikal Electronics plans to ship 15.000 CPUs per month, mostly to Russian state-owned companies running government-approved software such as Astra Linux.

References

External links
 Baikal-T1 on Baikal Electronics website 
 Baikal-M on Baikal Electronics website 
 https://www.baikalelectronics.com 
 https://www.baikalelectronics.ru 

ARM architecture
MIPS implementations
Research and development in Russia
32-bit microprocessors