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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by inglor_cz on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:32AM (#24471353)
Only in some science branches, e.g. nuclear physics. But not microprocessors.

Also, scientific power is not the same as developed market. USSR was scientifically strong, but economically weak, ask ex-Soviet citizens how the 1980s looked like - an era of queues for basic necessities.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by sudosysgen on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:47AM (#24471531)
The Soviet Union was still the #2 economy too. And while it was behind in microprocessors, it was ahead in other branches, for example phage therapy and some fields of metallurgy. So it is correct to say that it was #2.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by codekansas on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:55PM (#24472376)
Per what measure? Are you counting the United States and Western Europe as the #1 economy collectively?
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by sudosysgen on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:18PM (#24472621)
Using either GNP or GDP, the USSR was the State with the second biggest economy for most of its existence.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by frank2 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:51PM (#24523056)
Sure, if you believe the figures published by the USSR's government.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by newen on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#24475794)
With around the same population as the US too.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by sudosysgen on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:39PM (#24477074)
Indeed, it was only very slightly more populous than the US.
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