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Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan siliconimist.com

johncoleop7 hours ago

Nursultan Kabylkas designed the first chip in Kazakhstan, and in the process he bootstrapped a new national industry.

nine_k4 hours ago

> Through a partnership with a Chinese fab, the team got space on Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) and received back their RISC-V general purpose processor. The project went viral, the media caught on, and the project gained national attention.

Kudos. But very expectedly it was a Chinese fab.

joe_mamba3 hours ago

>Kudos. But very expectedly it was a Chinese fab.

Kudos to China then. The world can always benefit from more supply. The US was the one who brought semiconductor manufacturing to Japan and Taiwan over 60 years ago. Now it's China's time to shine.

chasil43 minutes ago

dorkypunk3 hours ago

Wouldn't this just be the same as any other fabless company?

trhway30 minutes ago

you mean like NVDA for example?

slackfan2 hours ago

I hate the fact that I can tell this was written with AI.

Acrobatic_Road28 minutes ago

You're right, and I want to slap myself because I didn't even notice the obvious at first. I need my coffee.

KylerAce19 minutes ago

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