In the fall, the Russian manufacturer of computers and servers
Kraftway plans to launch the first experimental batch of computers on the domestic Elbrus microprocessor. The launch of mass production is scheduled for 2016. The company
“Aquarius” , which owns a plant in the Ivanovo region and is part of the National Computer Corporation, is negotiating the production of computers with the Moscow Center of SPARC-technologies (MCST) - the manufacturer of Elbrus processors. However, no agreement has yet been reached.
Kraftway senior vice president Renat Yusupov
told Vedomosti that in 2016 it is planned to sell tens of thousands of new computers. The technological chain for future production at the Kraftway plant has already been built, logistics issues have been resolved and an economic justification has been prepared, he adds.
According to Yusupov, the public sector especially needs computers and high-security servers. He can argue that servers capable of working in secure data center segments may even be more useful to government customers than personal computers, which are unlikely to be widely distributed outside the protected segment of government IT systems.
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"Megamind"
wrote that
"Rostec" is negotiating with the Central Election Commission and "Post of Russia" about the purchase of personal computers based on the Russian processor "Elbrus". The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation has already acquired two computers after a preliminary check.
The production of computers based on the Elbrus processor is carried out by the
MCST and the
Institute of Electronic Control Machines. I.S. Brooke. Accepting orders for domestic PCs was opened on the ICTS website in April 2015. The first computer cost about 200 thousand rubles. According to representatives of the MCST, the first batch of 50 such computers was sold out. With a large order, the price of a computer is 70 thousand rubles.
In the first half of 2015, Kraftway accounted for 0.7% of all shipments of personal computers in Russia in pieces, according to IDC analyst Natalya Vinogradova. The share of Aquarius was 1.2%, another 2% belong to
Depo Computers , and 5.9% - from
DNS . The remaining 90% of the market is controlled by foreign manufacturers. In comparison with the level of 2014, the share of all these manufacturers increased, except for Kraftway (it had 0.8%).
Yesterday, Kommersant
reported that the Industry Development Fund (
FER ), created by order of Dmitry Medvedev to support import-substituting industries, would issue a loan to Kraftway. The company will receive a loan of 500 million rubles at 5% per annum for five years to develop its PC and tablet production at a factory in Kaluga Obninsk. The competitors of the company from among foreign manufacturers are convinced that it is inappropriate to assemble computers in Russia, since it is still produced from foreign components.