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Is it? Not every comment needs to be cited; this isn’t University. Google Soviet engineer Intel and look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pentkovski

Is it? Not every comment needs to be cited; this isn’t University. Google Soviet engineer Intel and look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pentkovski https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pentkovski

varjag 5y ago
Pentkovski was a student when the decision to axe domestic development was made. His achievement is overstated in Russia (mainly from the urban legend that his surname led to Pentium). He is a great engineer, but Intel never had a shortage of people of his caliber.
- Kafkish 5y ago
  But he was still good enough to lead the Intel team that developed the Pentium III, or is that an overstatement? From his Wikepedia page: > At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to United States where he worked at Intel and led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processor
  - varjag 5y ago
    He was good enough, what's your point though? That Pentium 3 (started well over a decade after Soviet demise) wouldn't have happened if he hadn't worked at Intel?
    - Kafkish 5y ago
      You gotta at least get your facts right. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The Pentium III was released within that same decade (Feb. 1999) [1], not "well over a decade after Soviet demise". In the same manner that the US space program would have advanced without input from Wernher von Braun [2], the development of Pentium III would have happened minus Pentkovski, though their presence pushed development faster and in directions that the projects would have taken longer to reach without them. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
      - varjag 5y ago
        Pentkovski is no von Braun, just one of scores of processors engineers in his cohort. That there was pentium 2 before him and 4 after him is a pretty solid hint.
jjoonathan 5y ago
It wouldn't be a proper USSR thread without green accounts puffing up soviet accomplishments.

varjag 5y ago

Pentkovski was a student when the decision to axe domestic development was made. His achievement is overstated in Russia (mainly from the urban legend that his surname led to Pentium). He is a great engineer, but Intel never had a shortage of people of his caliber.

Kafkish 5y ago
But he was still good enough to lead the Intel team that developed the Pentium III, or is that an overstatement? From his Wikepedia page: > At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to United States where he worked at Intel and led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processor
- varjag 5y ago
  He was good enough, what's your point though? That Pentium 3 (started well over a decade after Soviet demise) wouldn't have happened if he hadn't worked at Intel?
  - Kafkish 5y ago
    You gotta at least get your facts right. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The Pentium III was released within that same decade (Feb. 1999) [1], not "well over a decade after Soviet demise". In the same manner that the US space program would have advanced without input from Wernher von Braun [2], the development of Pentium III would have happened minus Pentkovski, though their presence pushed development faster and in directions that the projects would have taken longer to reach without them. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
    - varjag 5y ago
      Pentkovski is no von Braun, just one of scores of processors engineers in his cohort. That there was pentium 2 before him and 4 after him is a pretty solid hint.

jjoonathan 5y ago

It wouldn't be a proper USSR thread without green accounts puffing up soviet accomplishments.