Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies

thumb|MCST Elbrus HT-R1000 laptop at 2013 MAKS Airshow thumb|8-core microprocessor Elbrus-8SV MCST (, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MCST develops microprocessors based on two different instruction set architecture (ISA): Elbrus and SPARC. MCST is a direct descendant of the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering.