Minister of Communications:
We made smart chips with Saudi hands
https://aletihadpress.com/السعودية-تنجح-بتصنيع-أول-رقائق-ذكية-مح/
A smart chip is an extremely small piece of hardware that includes a microprocessor for computing, or other resources for high-level data handling. The smart chip on a sophisticated modern card, such as a credit card or identification card, allows the card to function as a computing device or a drive-type data holder, which provides for various processes such as authentication and data storage..
It can also be used in military fields..
https://arabic.sputniknews.com/arab_world/202108251049936773-السعودية-تصنع-أول-رقائق-ذكية-محلية-تستخدم-في-المجال-العسكري/
Tuwaiq Academy announces Signing agreements with 10 international companies
the most famous
1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. Apple
4. IBM
5. Amazon
and more
They will open academies in Riyadh
And the announcement of the Tuwaiq 1000 project for these camps to reach to all regions of Saudi Arabia from a distance..
Announcing the opening of Future Skills Camps
More than 50 camps in 18 fields such as artificial intelligence, data analysis, application development, electronic payment technologies, etc. The duration of each camp is 4 months..
The minister said that KSA has the ability and that means we can enter this field ..This is an area that requires a lot of investments..
Since 2012 an Egyptian newspaper reported on King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (Our Pride) its initiative to manufacture electronic chips..
https://www.masrawy.com/news/tech-reports/details/2012/12/1/50636/مبادرة-سعودية-لتصنيع-الرقائق-الإلكترونية
The start of the plan was in
2007..