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There do exist domestic-built elbrus(custom soviet arch) and baikal(ARM-derived) -based PCs. Technically, all govt employees are required to use them as there is like a 30% limit on foreign parts, but in practice it is circumvented by padding circuits with junk thats never used. And yes, they're lagging behind cutting edge chips by a decade and a half at this point, but its still more than enough for online voting and whatever other boomer shit putin needs.
Baikal went bankrupt in 2023 because they used TSMC for chip production.
Elbrus is barely hanging on but it's helplessly far behind, you can't really run a modern DE and browse modern web on anything but their flagship Elbrus-16C, but that's made for servers, AFAIK there are no "desktop" form-factor motherboards for it at all, and it's exceptionally pricy compared to competition.
I think a more likely outcome is that russia starts bulk-purchasing chinese CPUs soon.
Well, damn. That's honestly way more impressive than I expected from Russia. Now I'll be reading about those instead of going to sleep lol