ArmInfo. Armenia is considered to be a Silicon Valley among the countries of the former USSR, where the first in the Soviet space and one of the world's first semiconductor computer was produced.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated this on January 31 during a speech at the Technical University of Cologne. In this vein, he recalled that most of the main components for the settlement systems and electronics of submarines and spacecraft were developed and produced in Armenia.
"Today, the IT potential of Armenia has expanded. Over the past 7 years, the information technology sector has increased by 5 times, providing an average annual growth of 25%. Research offices of multinational companies such as Synopsys, National Instruments, Cisco, VMWare, TeamViewer, Mentor Graphics (owned by Siemens) are represented in Armenia today, which involve thousands of professionals solving complex issues in the field of 5G, automatic communication, artificial intelligence, robotics and others,> he said.