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Kalistani Microdivisions Opens in SulariSuccess could open door to hightech revolution
Sulari, Suldanor
December 18, 4441


Plant 1 of Kalistani Microdivisions opened for business in August

A growing demand for consumer electronics from other nations has led Kalistan to begin to take the initial steps toward producing its own.  Utilizing cpu architecture researched and developed at Kaliburg Polytechnic University, the first Kalistani variants of popular microprocessors that find their way into cellphones, laptops, and other high tech consumer devices were developed during the recession by a joint venture with New Endralon.  That company has since been liquidated, but investors there worked with another high tech firm in Sulari to begin mass producing chips.  This new company, which opened its doors in August and is preparing to go public, as soon as the new Kalistani Stock Exchange opens next June, is known as Kalistani Microdivisions.

CEO of the operation Vivian Tashunke-Washte said:  "We've been lucky in a lot of ways, that the infrastructure here was so heavily based in heavy industry.  The recession basically wiped a lot of these factories out, but left the skeletons here.  And so we have an intelligent workforce here, as well as a lot of buildings that we can purchase for expansion if we need it, plus the transportation and distribution infrastructure is already here for rail, sea and air."

Kalistani Microdivisions has recently paired with a small local battery producer and is working on cellular phone technology.  "Right now, Kalistanis buy a lot of their cell phones from after market foreign distributors" Tashunke-Washte said.  "It's way cheaper than buying them directly from the factories, especially those which come from countries who refuse for whatever reason to sell us things.  So we are literally a nation of last gen, second hand cell phones.  Our aim at KalMD is to replace that stuff with our own designs.  We have the chips, and we certainly can acquire the capacity to make chips for the entire world's market here in the skeleton of the heavy factories.  We can bring this town back to life.  So why not also make our own electronics?  Kalistani electronics for Kalistani Consumers.  Now's the time.  We can put this together."

Kalistani MD's Sulari factory is capable of producing multi-core chips and aims at acquiring a significant footprint in the Kalistani Market.  "The early bird gets the worm," Tashunke-Washte said.  "We are in an excellent place to grow and do well."