Hobbit (Russian: Хоббит) is a Soviet/Russian 8-bit home computer, based on the ZX Spectrum hardware architecture.

[2] The original circuit layout was designed on a home-made computer (built in 1979 using ASMP of three KR580 chips - Soviet Intel 8080 clones), also created by Dmitry Mikhailov.

The Hobbit was also briefly marketed in the U.K., targeted mainly at the existing ZX Spectrum fans wanting a more advanced computer compatible with the familiar architecture.

This featured 32 KB of cache memory, some of which could be dedicated to a video text buffer in CGA mode (only supported by drivers in the FORTH or the CP/M environments; no known programs using the Sinclair-based BASIC mode used this feature).

SME worked at astonishing speed - one machine code command made an output of an entire display line.