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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by eunos on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:33AM (#34261080)
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.
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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by flohofwoe on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:04AM (#34261743)
It 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).

The most advanced microchip produced in East Germany was the '1-MBit chip' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U61000), but AFAIK this suffered from terrible yields and didn't really go into mass production.

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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by m4rtink on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:52PM (#34264596)
Do not forget Czechoslovakia and Tesla:

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.).

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