Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

(siliconimist.com)

43 points | by johncole 8 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • johncole 8 hours ago ago

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

    • nine_k 4 hours ago 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.

  • dorkypunk 4 hours ago ago

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

    • trhway an hour ago ago

      you mean like NVDA for example?

  • slackfan 3 hours ago ago

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

    • Acrobatic_Road an hour ago ago

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