Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

(siliconimist.com)

50 points | by johncole 1 day ago

5 comments

johncole 1 day ago
Nursultan Kabylkas designed the first chip in Kazakhstan, and in the process he bootstrapped a new national industry.
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- nine_k 1 day 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.
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  - joe_mamba 1 day 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.
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    - chasil 1 day ago
      RCA played a large role, specifically.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_industry_in_Taiw...
dorkypunk 1 day ago
Wouldn't this just be the same as any other fabless company?
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- johncole 10 hours ago
  Not much different, no. But I thought it was a good story, bringing it to Kazakhstan, which traditionally doesn't have a semi industry.
- trhway 23 hours ago
  you mean like NVDA for example?
aboardRat4 15 hours ago
"the takeaway"
AI generated text?
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- johncole 10 hours ago
  Why do you say that?
vivzkestrel 15 hours ago
borat would be proud but seriously guys congrats
slackfan 1 day ago
I hate the fact that I can tell this was written with AI.
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- Acrobatic_Road 23 hours ago
  You're right, and I want to slap myself because I didn't even notice the obvious at first. I need my coffee.
- KylerAce 23 hours ago
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