Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan (siliconimist.com)
42 points by johncole 7 hours ago
johncole 7 hours ago
Nursultan Kabylkas designed the first chip in Kazakhstan, and in the process he bootstrapped a new national industry.
nine_k 3 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_mamba 3 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.
dorkypunk 3 hours ago
Wouldn't this just be the same as any other fabless company?
trhway 6 minutes ago
you mean like NVDA for example?
slackfan an hour ago
I hate the fact that I can tell this was written with AI.
Acrobatic_Road 4 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.