The Soviets Invented the Modern Chip
This is just an interesting bit of computer history which most likely got glossed over in a rather globalized, neoliberal world. Vladimir Pentkovski was a Soviet chip architect employee at Elbrus. He was with the Elbrus team working on superscalar architecture and other chip designs for over 40 years.
“According to microprocessor expert Keith Diefendorff: ‘Elbrus has developed computers based on superscalar, shared memory multiprocessing, and EPIC techniques, long before papers on those subjects appeared in the West.’”
Update:
I have found this interesting tidbit of information and from the CIA no less.
“Although an absolute causal relationship may be difficult to prove, some key components of Soviet planning are being widely adopted by industrial corporations in the US. The most striking adoption has been the five-year plan, which is now a routine practice in virtually all large corporations as well as in many smaller firms.”
