Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

48 points
1/21/1970
21 hours ago
by johncole

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johncole

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

21 hours ago

nine_k

> 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.

18 hours ago

joe_mamba

>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.

17 hours ago

chasil

15 hours ago

aboardRat4

"the takeaway"

AI generated text?

6 hours ago

johncole

Why do you say that?

an hour ago

vivzkestrel

borat would be proud but seriously guys congrats

6 hours ago

dorkypunk

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

17 hours ago

johncole

Not much different, no. But I thought it was a good story, bringing it to Kazakhstan, which traditionally doesn't have a semi industry.

an hour ago

trhway

you mean like NVDA for example?

15 hours ago

slackfan

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

16 hours ago

Acrobatic_Road

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

15 hours ago