MCST (Elbrus)
About MCST (Elbrus)
Moscow processor designer founded in 1992 that makes the Elbrus VLIW CPUs and the SPARC-derived MCST-R line for Russian government and industrial users. Elbrus-16S appeared in 2021, the Elbrus-2S3 reappeared on the Russian market in June 2024 and PLC-Elbrus controllers passed state registration in December 2024; a 32-core Elbrus-32S was planned for samples in 2025, without confirmation that samples exist.
MCST (Elbrus) was founded in 1992 and is based in Moscow, Russia. It is listed under CPUs & RISC-V.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
What MCST (Elbrus) works on
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
