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Russia was strong in MechE and material science but surprisingly weak on electronic. I think Warsaw Pact's electronic workhorse was East Germany, especially Dre
by eunos 4y ago
Russia was strong in MechE and material science but surprisingly weak on electronic. I think Warsaw Pact's electronic workhorse was East Germany, especially Dresden.
- flohofwoe 4y agoIt was probably even. East Germany focused on Zilog clones (Z80 and Z8000 family - called U880 and U8000), while the Soviet Union focused on Intel x86 clones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K1810VM86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K1810VM86). The most advanced microchip produced in East Germany was the '1-MBit chip' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U61000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U61000), but AFAIK this suffered from terrible yields and didn't really go into mass production.
- m4rtink 4y agoDo not forget Czechoslovakia and Tesla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(Czechoslovak_company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(Czechoslovak_company) Here in Brno they also made world class electron microscopes & some of the leading electron microscopy companies still come from Brno or at least operate there (Delong Instruments, FEI, Thermo Fisher, etc.).