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Kenya: Startup Firm Leads Kenya Into World of High-Tech Manufacturing
VOA, 12 June 2023
A three-year-old startup company is leading Kenya into the world of high-tech manufacturing, building a workforce capable of making semiconductors and nanotechnology products that… Read more »
Startup Firm Leads Kenya Into World of High-Tech Manufacturing
A three-year-old startup company is leading Kenya into the world of high-tech manufacturing, building a workforce capable of making semiconductors and nanotechnology products that operate modern devices from mobile phones to refrigerators.
Anthony Githinji is the founder of Semiconductors Technologies Limited (STL) - located in Nyeri, about a three-hour drive from Nairobi.
He brought his know-how to Kenya from the United States, where he started work in 1997 on semiconductors - materials that conduct electricity and are used in thousands of products.
Githinji said the company is not profitable yet.
The company is working to establish relationships with other universities in Kenya, such as Strathmore and University of Eldoret, as well as in Uganda and Rwanda.
Githinji said he has also established a foundation named after his mother and his mother-in-law, with a goal of empowering under-privileged girls through science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). With partners, he has built a computer lab in a remote village near Mount Kenya with about 20 workstations so kids and their families can benefit.
A display at Semiconductors Technologies Limited, or STL, in Nyeri, Kenya, May 25, 2023.
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