The first prototypes were produced by the end of 2014 and serial production started in 2016.

[5][6] In 2018 MCST announced plans to produce the Elbrus-8SV, an upgraded version of the 8C with doubled performance.

In 2021 the processor was offered to Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, for evaluation in light of a potential use for some of the company's hardware needs.

[10] Successor Elbrus-16C was announced in 2020 with declared start of manufacturing in October 2021[11] but hasn't entered the market as of 2023 yet.

[2] The processors can also run a Linux kernel based OS compiled for Elbrus.