Diamond Foundry

Today our consumer business unit VRAI has launched the Bitcoin Diamond™, a VRAI created diamond that is a true store of value. https://lnkd.in/dbxZj8CQ The Bitcoin Diamond™ is backed by Bitcoins in the amount stated when you buy it, with no retail markups involved. Of truly finite supply, you can easily look up its value at any time and, if needed, realize it, no questions asked. Each VRAI created diamond is unique. We now employ GemPrint identification technology as used by courts and the FBI to read the unique optical ‘fingerprint’ of your VRAI created diamond. Then we link it to an amount of Bitcoins so the total is in the range of the diamond industry’s Rapaport diamond price.  The tradition of diamonds is rooted in gifting a mesmerizing store of value. But today’s diamond trade has distorted this, with little value obtainable by consumers when in need. Mined diamonds not only finance bad regimes and autocrats, they are also traded in murky ways by dealers and then marked up at retail by a factor above their true value. It was time for a much better product! With the Bitcoin Diamond™, we have created the modern-day update of the wonderful diamond gifting tradition. If the Bitcoin price continues to evolve as it has in recent times, you can make your engagement ring a very valuable asset over time. Plus it turns out this is now also the easiest – and surely most elegant – way to gift Bitcoins! VRAI True to the future

Taylor Swift announces she re-captured her legacy (re-purchased the rights to her early music) — wearing VRAI created diamonds by Diamond Foundry. Proud to part of life’s true moments!

"Investigating mining operations in Sierra Leone, Lesotho, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this documentary exposes the unspoken realities of industrial diamond mining in African countries. The claim that 99% of diamonds are now conflict-free eclipses persistent and systemic challenges on the ground. 'Beyond Shining Illusions' gives a voice to local residents and artisanal miners directly affected by large-scale diamond mining operations. In their testimonies, they share ongoing struggles, highlighting cases of violence by security forces protecting mining operations, air and water pollution due to blasting and tailings management practices, and an overall lack of socio-economic benefits. Produced by the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition, the documentary aims to shed light on issues that are today overlooked, to go behind the marketing lines, demand real change and foster meaningful discussion on the ways the sector can uphold its potential to do good for communities. For diamond resources to truly benefit communities, the documentary identifies greater transparency and independent monitoring as key elements to enhance corporate accountability. Mining companies, industry actors and states all have a role to play to protect community rights and improve both mining and sourcing practices. This documentary has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union." https://lnkd.in/e9DqGx6S

Our first greenfield project D Foundry II in Trujillo, Spain has commenced operation with our first 80-foot long cluster plasma reactors. A first glimpse in the video below. Architect Ettore Sottsass' long-time partner Marco Zanini did a beautiful job designing the building to reflect local materials and style elements -- while adding a bit of his renowned design signature.

U.S. CHIPS supports Oakland, CA startup Akash Systems Congratulations to Oakland, CA based Akash Systems for receiving $18m in U.S. CHIPS funding. This US gov support multiplies 8x Khosla Ventures’ own investment in the startup. And had Kamala Harris been elected, she’d surely be part of the announcement in West Oakland! At DF, we have received questions and therefore a few words here — in public for the sake of transparency and efficiency: Akash’s founder Felix Ejeckam has a long history working on a specific angle of bringing diamond to chips: depositing polycrystalline diamond directly onto the back of GaN based RF chips. His team has been pioneering this a long time ago. Here are some facts to know: - Polycrystalline wafers are 5x more expensive and 5x less conductive thermally (vertically) than single-crystalline diamond (SCD). Only SCD is isotropic. Only SCD is polishable cost efficiently to wafer precision surface finish. - Polycrystalline diamond can be directly deposited to the back of GaN RF chips because GaN can take high temperatures of diamond deposition. However, the market for RF chips is small. - AI and other silicon CMOS chips cannot take high diamond deposition temperatures, therefore separate bonding is required, in which case customers may as well go for the highest-performing diamond, ie. SCD. - Making polycrystalline diamond is widely known around the world for a long time. All the chip foundries know how to do this themselves. At DF, we are focused on single-crystalline diamond (SCD) wafers only — without any US gov support. While poly diamond wafers have existed for decades, SCD wafers are a very recent innovation. Ultimately those will dominate all chip applications due to their lower cost and higher performance. We appreciate the attention that Akash’s PR brings to the space and are wishing them success — after all we are all US tax payers and do not like to see taxpayer funds get wasted! That said, we are very confident in the merit of our technology and expect this to become obvious in the market. Plus we have already built SCD growth capacity suitable for six million chips, and already have a 100x bigger business than Akash today. God bless that they not become as famous as Solyndra though!

As we enter the second decade focused on chip tech of our 30-year founding master plan, on the occasion of a keynote at Slush 2024 with 14,000 attendees, our CEO reviewed the first decade of getting diamond production to cost efficient scale while battling the entrenched diamond mining cartel. Topics: Cartel collusion, De Beers monopoly power abuse, corruptible conspirators Bain&Co / BCG / S&P Global / GIA / JVC, incorruptible women, and advanced tech ultimately winning.