Kozlovfab

Kozlovfab, alternatively known as the Institute of Fabrication Technologies is a leading Anterran semiconductor manufacturer based in Kakhab, Osorra. It is among the most valuable companies in Osorra and Avalonia - being an important component of the Osorrai electronics industry. It was founded in 1963 by the Ministry of Computation to streamline Osorrai transistor research and manufacturing into a state enterprise. The enterprise was influential in the development of the Osorrai computer industry - creating the country's first microprocessors. Kozlovfab created its own domestic architecture, known as the INTI-8000 and would gradually tweak it to be compatible with foreign operating systems and networks. The enterprise would grow extremely large during the Osorra-Tilenno War, providing computers to the military to be used in recon, planning, and weapons systems. The company's output was later redirected to the 80s personal computer boom in Osorra, providing cheap chips for the explosion of personal computing in Osorra. In the 90s the firm was gradually privatized, however instead of being sold to outside investors, existing scientists and executives were able to grap large portions of the company. Later in 1995 Osorra passed measures protecting the company and exempting it from national taxes. Yazov Novikova gave a large grant to the firm, allowing to survive.

The company was able to restructure its operations and deliver cheap prices for the growing Anterran consumer electronics industry. It would help many "fabless" semiconductor companies fabricate their chips - leading to a boom of these fabless designers all over Anterra. The firm massively grew in size following the smartphone revolution in Anterra, where its previous research and support into Go-RISC allowed it to dominate the new mobile phone market, giving up unparalleled capacities to help other firms design and manufacture their own chips. Kozlovfab also established a large business in the server industry, providing cool low powered chips for use in data centers. The company is a major partner of OsDisk - helping it fabricate world leading memory and storage chips. The firm has in recent years rocketed in the Osorrai stock market and is one of the fastest growing companies in the whole country.

Kozlovfab has been criticized for enjoying large degrees of state support. Since 1995 the firm has been exempted from all taxes. The Osorrai military's procurement rules force all equipment made for the armed forces to utilize Kozlovfab chips, these rules were extended to the rest of the state sector and "domestic private companies with significant national security interests" in 2001. An industry association in Agrana y Griegro has been challenging state support to the firm in Osorrai and AyG courts since 1995. Furthermore, the firms ability to secure extremely cheap credit from Osorrai state banks has been criticized by international trade associations. The firm is alleged to be connected to the Balakirev Triad: whos individual's control most of their private nontraded shares. Internationally this has led to a lot of controversy and conspiracy around the firm.

The firm is mostly privately held, with only 30% of the company's shares being publicly traded. The other 70% is held by the Novikova clan and various scientists and executives within the firm. Kozlovfab has been reluctant to shift up its management since the collapse of communism in Osorra, preferring seniority to new management styles. The company's corporate culture is known for retaining many features of the old research culture of labs in Communist Osorra - giving employees a wide degree of freedom and offering resources for a variety of experiments. The company still maintains trappings of the "steel maize bowl" - offering employees free housing. However these benefits are nowhere near to the extent they were during the Communist period as the firm has been forced to cut costs in order to stay competitive.