Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

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57 points·johncole··15 comments

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

> 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.

>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.

RCA played a large role, specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_industry_in_Taiw...

I love how verification is somehow a "[focus] on high-skill employment" as if the actual fab construction and operation isn't a high skill.

Both can be true. It’s a much lower capital threshold to enter the verification game than the fan building game.

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

you mean like NVDA for example?

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

borat would be proud but seriously guys congrats

"the takeaway"

AI generated text?

Why do you say that?

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

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

You're absolutely right!

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