Tag Archives: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED)

Why Commies Couldn’t Do Semiconductors

Asianometry has an interesting video up about East Germany expensive, strenuous efforts to catch up to the west in semiconductor manufacturing technology. Spoiler: They didn’t. Some takeaways: “In the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, went all … Continue reading →

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