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The bootstrapping required to produce an iron tool from scratch (really, a small village with a surplus of food sufficient for one full time adult male + accessible ores) is doable in less than a lifetime with some recorded knowledge on how to do it. Even if they’re literally at the mud hut stage.

Producing even the simplest IC? Definitely not. And that is ignoring the need for electricity and everything else required to actually use it.