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Darian Domocos told me the hardest part of starting a CPU company wasn't the engineering; it was getting anyone to believe that two young guys from Romania could do it. He's the CEO and co-founder of Fiora5, a startup that develops and licenses RISC-V pro

The business of semiconductor design is pure intellectual property: the worlds most creative minds, building ideas that generate trillions of dollars of value. Without the minds and the ideas, the entire industry is worth almost nothing.If this business c

This is a small diversion from my usual focus on semiconductors. I live in Almaty Kazakhstan. I love the place: one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the people are some of the warmest I have ever met. From time to time, I want to share technolog

$400m Machine vs. $200 ToyThere is a machine in the Netherlands that is essentially the heartbeat of the modern world. It's called an Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool, and it's built by ASML.Without these machines, we don't have the high-end chi

I gave this talk to a group at the American Corner in Almaty in April, 2026, in Almaty Kazakhstan. I was invited to come talk about America, it's the 250th birthday of America. I'm an American living in Almaty Kazakhstan. We are rare.So I took the opportu

Matt is a force of nature in open silicon, and this interview is the second in our series on open silicon (see wafer.space first!). First, Matt is the creator of the Zero to ASIC Course, which has taken thousands of engineers, students, and makers from co

In this episode, Tim 'mithro' Ansell shares his journey from software engineering to leading innovations in hardware, including open source silicon and most recently, founding wafer.space. Tim shares with us how open source principles are transforming the

I live in Almaty Kazakhstan. It's not known as a hotbed of semiconductors (yet). When I first met Nursultan Kabylkas, and learned his background, I had to hear his story. This is the story of how one professor led a team of students to design the first ch

Most companies overlook the true cost and complexity of deploying hardware in the physical world - FlyingWire's innovative approach to deploy-through-material-design could slash that expense to zero. The next semiconductor revolution won't just sit in a s