johncole

Interview of Ola Fadiran, founder of ChipMango, the first semiconductor design company built in sub-Saharan Africa.

I knew it.

It's not really down . . . it's just unreliable?

Fair point, that is pretty much the answer I’m finding for most open source solutions in hardware, you make your money on implementation and support.

If you intend to build a physically chip, short answer is you don’t. You can’t really build it without Taiwan at this point.

I think the EU is making credible attempts to change this.

I think this story is the exception. The supply chain time for hardware is so long, designers are picking their chips out months and years in advance. So you really do have to trust that the supplier will be around to support the hardware in a few months or a few years.

Thanks, how could I have made it stronger?

The company declares bankruptcy, the money is gone. Same as an equity investment.

Agree here, chem may be more complex than language, and not as definable as language. I think this is the realm that physical ai will overlap with.

This is a fantastic option when the only other viable option is to get them a phone. They can text parents, they can be tracked, but they can’t watch stupid YouTube or TikTok videos, and they can’t participate in 95% of the stuff that harms kids at that age.

What’s become the “irresponsible norm” is to not give your kids a phone, which is crazy, because it’s just giving tech companies the ability to manipulate kids.

Australias probably has more to worry about with the snakes and sharks.

Dictatorships are always more efficient in the short run.

It provided the above to a select few that thought the way they were supposed to. It also did NOT provide to a few million that didn’t think the correct way.

Extreme subsidy between the competitors.

Favorite claim they made?

Fascinating, that’s really interesting.

I probably over exaggerated there. But it does seem he was earlier than the team that’s been given credit for it, no?

They will never be Chinese or considered Chinese. Has China become more welcoming to foreigners lately?

I don’t think Microsoft is sending people to the gulag because they didn’t have enough zeroes behind their idea.

Do Chinas state subsidies encourage innovation?

This story is a great example of the system taking a brilliant person, and stomping their opportunity down because they were from the wrong class. But replace class with whatever you like.

Who provides such an economic system?

How do you build a company on something that's free? Daniel Schultz, founder of aesc silicon explains.

1. This was a contributing factor for sure. 2. Antitrust investigations were covered in the talk. 3. This definitely spurred US production and development for sure.

But are these stereotypes or just contributing factors?

I've never heard that theory before, that we had the best electricity production?

Why are these lazy stereotypes?

Adding the Youtube video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUJztMrUxk

The video version of a talk I gave here in Almaty a few weeks ago.

The written blog was shared earlier on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937611

This is such a great business idea.

No because of Russian trolls.