
Their current public incarnation is the Elbrus 8S, an 8-core Elbrus at 1.3 GHz estimated. They are currently working on a 16-core Elbrus-16S version that's planned for 2018 at an estimated 2.0 GHz.
Elbrus is comprised of a dual VLIW architecture (a closed and proprietary design), along with direct hardware support for x86. In VLIW its Elbrus-2000 base core design was capable of dispatching 20 instructions per clock. Ongoing improvements have scaled that ability to multi-cores.
The Elbrus-8S currently sports:
- TSMC 28nm 9 metal layer manufacturing process
- 1.3 GHz estimated clock speed
(Elbrus-4S supported 38.4 GB/s memory throughput) - 128 KB instruction single-port L1
- 64 KB data quad-port L1
- 512 KB single-port L2
- 16 MB L3 in 4 banks, each with one port
- 4x 72-bit ECC DDR3-1600 support
- 125 Gflops DP, 250 Gflops SP
- C, C++, Java, Fortran-77, Fortran-90
- Elbrus-8S supports Linux, and possibly other OSes.
(Elbrus-4S and earlier models support Linux plus Windows varieties) The first shipments of PCs based on Elbrus-4S (quad-core) was in December, 2015 in Russia. Its die is 380 mm^2 with 986 M transistors, with approx. 45W power consumption. Mikron Russia has also produced earlier Elbrus models.