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VEB Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ Erfurt, prior to 1983 labeled the VEB Funkwerk Erfurt, was a people-owned enterprise (Volkseigener Betrieb, VEB) manufacturing microelectronics and semiconductor devices, located in Erfurt, East Germany at that time, and head of the correspondent VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ Erfurt combine producing under the trademark Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik (RFT). Funkwerk Erfurt emerged from a former Telefunken facility during the Socialization in East Germany in 1948. After the Wende in 1990 it successively evolved to the X-FAB Silicon Foundries.

=Chess Computers= In the 80s VEB Funkwerk Erfurt and VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt manufactured various dedicated chess computers based on their own produced Z80 clone U880, notably the SC 1 and SC 2, which in turn were clones of Ron Nelson's Chess Challenger programs, manufactured by Fidelity Electronics, and since 1983/84 the Chess-Master models with programs written by Dieter Schultze, Rüdiger Worbs and Wolfgang Pähtz.

=Photos=

Erfurt Computer Chess Team
Erfurt computer chess team in 1983, programmer Rüdiger Worbs, project leader Holger Faltermeier and chess consultant IM (Bernd ?) Stein

Honorary names
were frequently added to the VEB actual names. VEB Mikroelektronik ...

U80701
Erich Honecker receives the U80701, developed by reverse engineering the MicroVAX 78032, SED central committee, August 14, 1989

=Publications=
 * Dieter Schultze, Rüdiger Worbs (1986). Schachcomputer Chess-Master CM, rfe, H1, S 19-21
 * Christian Posthoff, Günter Reinemann (1987). Computerschach - Schachcomputer. Berlin: Akademie-Verl., ISBN-13: 978-3055002281, with cooperation of Rainer Knaak, Michael Schlosser, Rainer Staudte, Rüdiger Worbs
 * Rainer Hinkeldein, Rüdiger Worbs (1988). Schachcomputer Chess-Master Diamond, rfe, H5, S 316-312
 * Karsten Bauermeister (1999). Deutsch-Deutsche Geschichte(n). Computerschach und Spiele. No. 5, October-November 1999, pp 32-33 (German)
 * Ingo Althöfer (2020). Computer Chess and Chess Computers in East Germany. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3

=External Links=
 * Rft/VEB Erfurt Electronic Chess Computers from The Spacious Mind
 * Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt from Wikipedia
 * VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)
 * Schachcomputer in der DDR from Wikipedia.de (German)
 * Standorte von DDR-Computertechnik from robotrontechnik.de (German)
 * VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt (German)
 * VEB Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ Erfurt (German)
 * VEB Mikroelektronik „Wilhelm Pieck“ Mühlhausen (German)


 * Integrierte Schaltkreise - Prozessor U880 from robotrontechnik.de (German)
 * Schachcomputer from robotrontechnik.de (German)
 * OEM und Sonstiges from Robotron-net.de (German)
 * Mikroelektronik - Wikimedia Commons
 * Robotron - Hardwareüberblick

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