Monday, April 26th 2021
Russia Develops First Domestic B450 Motherboard
When governments need a hardware upgrade, they will usually take the route of exploring options with security in mind. However, if you happen to have some engineering talent to employ on a new project, why wouldn't you just build a custom motherboard for your own purposes. Today, GS Group Holding and Philax, have announced that they are starting the manufacturing of Russia's first motherboard based on a B450 chipset from AMD. Looking at the motherboard, which you can see below, you might find it very similar to those of ASRock. And that is because Philax has a licensing agreement with ASRock to use the design of the B450M Pro4 motherboard, with the addition of a TPM module which is often used by government agencies, to produce this board.
Producing around 40,000 pieces, these motherboards are expected to handle anything from 4000 series to 5000 series of AMD processors. As far as the specifications go, the board is coming in a standard Micro-ATX form factor. It is equipped with four DDR4 memory slots that can take a memory with up to 3200 MHz speed. There are two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and one PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, which are of course limited by CPU choice. The motherboard enables four SATA III and two M.2 ports for storage expansion. When it comes to I/O, the board features HDMI, D-Sub, DVI-D, four USB 3.1 Gen1, two USB 2.0, one USB Type-C, and one USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port. GS Group Holding and Philax also have a partnership that goes beyond just motherboards. They also plan to produce about 50,000 custom monitors for government purposes as well.
Source:
via Tom's Hardware
Producing around 40,000 pieces, these motherboards are expected to handle anything from 4000 series to 5000 series of AMD processors. As far as the specifications go, the board is coming in a standard Micro-ATX form factor. It is equipped with four DDR4 memory slots that can take a memory with up to 3200 MHz speed. There are two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and one PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, which are of course limited by CPU choice. The motherboard enables four SATA III and two M.2 ports for storage expansion. When it comes to I/O, the board features HDMI, D-Sub, DVI-D, four USB 3.1 Gen1, two USB 2.0, one USB Type-C, and one USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port. GS Group Holding and Philax also have a partnership that goes beyond just motherboards. They also plan to produce about 50,000 custom monitors for government purposes as well.
36 Comments on Russia Develops First Domestic B450 Motherboard
Sputnik B450 proV
Great!
They were also planning to push for making processors to compete against Baikal electronics, MCST, Elvees, Komdiv, etc.
I mean, Kraftway also makes Intel Motherboards for their Intel machines. Rather simple motherboards but does the job for anyone buying an Intel machine from Kraftway. Cant find them on the market without getting one from a ripped out PC.
In Soviet Russia, you don't destroy motherboards, they destroy you :laugh:
Questions are..
1) how much spy chips is on that
2) will it be available outside RU?
IMHO, world could use more countries making PC hardware. Having everything more or less concentrated in one place isnt good and it also aint particularly safe either, considering that region is unstable even from natural disaster perspective.Licensed then probably?
Got no solid info on the matter sadly, I just recognized the familiar heat-sinks over the VRM.
Here are some details.
It is for barebone kits and monoblocks.
2) highly unlikely, although it would be nice if russia started building their own manufacturing system. I agree with others that some no nonsense boards made otuside of the chinese system would be a welcome change to an overly homoginized system.Huh? It says in the article:
"GS Group Holding and Philax, have announced that they are starting the manufacturing of Russia's first motherboard based on a B450 chipset from AMD"
it is like a copy of asrock B350\450m pro4.
Lets call it domestic license production...
Maybe if I said "they took lessons from Supermicro"?