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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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