Baikal Electronics hits 85,000-processor milestone as new microcontroller goes into production

Baikal Electronics has produced 85,000 of its home-grown processors for the Russian market since its founding in 2012, chief executive Andrey Evdokimov told an April 2025 industry conference. All units have already sold out.

Between 2019 and 2024, the firm grew shipments from 17,000 to 80,000 chips, opened three additional offices, and more than doubled its headcount to over 200.

Most of that volume came from the Baikal-T line for embedded systems. The client-oriented Baikal-M and the 48-core, server-class Baikal-S made up the rest. All were fabricated at TSMC before 2022; sanctions now block further production there. Separately, Taiwan confiscated a batch of 150,000 Baikal-M processors, and a 15,000-unit Baikal-S order was canceled.

Analysts note that 85,000 units lag behind the hundreds of thousands of Intel and AMD processors Russia imported each year before 2022—and are tiny compared with the billions produced globally. Yet before Baikal, Russia had no mass-market CPU production, so even these volumes mark a step toward supply-chain independence.

The company launched serial production of its first microcontroller in April 2025 and plans to bring the laptop-focused Baikal-L to market next. Finding a contract foundry remains a hurdle after TSMC’s exit. Still, executives say expanding into commercial PCs could lift domestic share beyond the current sub-five-percent level estimated by industry observers.