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  1. This kind of thing can happen at the local level also. In the (U.S.) town where I live there's a family that was known to be quite wealthy. They owned a bank, real estate companies, and land. The bankers and real estate people unfortunately played a little too wild with their assets, selling land parcels back and forth among themselves (sometimes on a daily basis) to push up the land values and let them reap the profits from so many sales where the selling price was always higher than the purchase price. Eventually that bubble popped, and the real estate and bankers ran out of money. The bank was close and the depositors almost lost their money (the bank was state insured, instead of being federally insured.) The real estate assets were sold off at market value, and that was the beginning of a major real estate and business boom. Tracts of land that had been empty for years while family members sold them back and forth among themselves were suddenly being developed. Businesses were built. Entire residential neighborhoods were built on land that had been unused. No one 'ate the rich', they ate themselves. The family's disaster turned into a boon for the community.
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  2. The Soviet Union was 9 to 12 years behind the West in semiconductor device fabrication. But they did manage to do creative things with the transistor budgets they had, like superscalar architectures in the Elbrus supercomputers and the native Elektronika microarchitecture. The real thing that inhibited progress was the factory managers' hesitance to computerize factory accounting, because it would hamper the graft and corruption in resource allocation which happened with central economic planning.
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  3. What timing dude, India and TSMC just had a talk over setting up 7.3 billion USD, semiconductor development plants in India. I think someone watched your video and went like, this is going out of hands 🤣🤣
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  4. Russia's dependence on TSMC is interesting because threats against TSMC would be bad news for Russia also, and of course, the whole planet at this point. It's almost like Taiwan's defense is based more on technological strength rather than on military strength.
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  5. It's really unbelievable how systemically relevant TSMC is.
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  6. "Vim, a text editor, that some people like" this is the kind of diplomatic phrase that starts world wars. Wonderfully stated.
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  7. I can imagine an engineer at Kodak passionately arguing that the company needs to change direction… and a manager flatly responding with “We don’t do that here.”
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  8. Could graphene act as a transistor in a next-gen chip? Scientists come to overwhelming consensus of "maybe"
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  9. "Graphene can basically do anything, except leave the lab"
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  10. I think the big takeaway is that not all types of GDP growth are equal, and growth due to rent seeking/real estate speculation is absolute bottom tier, as it has a negative effect on standard of living and other industries.
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  11. I always thought "why do TSMC, Samsung, Intel, etc.. always need to fight for the bleeding edge?". Watching this video gave me another perspective on chip fab politics. If any one company stops for long then someone will step in and take advantage of that hole in the market. Entire Countries are trying to catch up and take contracts away from market leaders. It's insane how competitive this market has become over the years.
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  12. It's so annoying to hear "AI powered this" AI powered that" in every new device and service
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  13. This video reminds me of one incident in Germany with Salim family. In the beginning of 2004 I was working at a hospital in Münster in Germany and the hospital head introduced me to a patient, which was being treated in the most expensive room. I was not aware who they were and the patient, Salim's wife, was a very nice lady. And in my stupidity I recommended to her to not stay long there as it was very expensive. However she reacted to me graceful (feel ashame until today when I think of it). To my surprise a few days later the room, the lounge and the hall to the her room were full of flowers, which had never happened in that hospital. To add to my injury I asked her daugther who the patient was. She just replied to me, "You don't know her?" Despite this they invited me to the birthday party for her, which was celebrated in an Indonesian restaurant called Bali in the city. Both Salim and his wife were very kind and humble. However the daugther always looked at me with dislike.
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  14. I think it's okay to revive Han culture, BUT we must also celebrate Chinese minorities' cultures too including Manchu
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  15. I don't know what is more impressive: the levels of far reaching collusion in these extended families, or how effective busting them up was for improving Japan's economy afterwards. I like that we all know most of these family names despite the companies being mostly broken up. Another great video, I was really looking forward to this one after it was teased.
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  16. it is so insane that humans can draw a really small picture on a rock, zap it with lightning and make it do math
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  17. It's so wild that basically all the information exchanged by humanity gets squeezed down to a few choke points
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  18. "No Mr Die, I expect you to Bond". . .
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  19. Despite a location ideally suited to attracting investment from China, Taiwan, and Japan, a labor force that is relatively educated, english speaking with millions of successful overseas workers, the Philippines has failed to attract manufacturing investment. This is because no administration has managed to reform a shambolic, corrupt and chaotic regulatory and bureacratic business environment. Costs are artificially high due to oligopolies in telecommunications and electrical power costs are high. Importing parts and raw materials needed to manufacture competitively is difficult. Compared to Vietnam, manufacturing in the Philippines is a nightmare.
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  20. As a South Korean, I can attest that elder poverty is a very REAL Problem. The issues pointed out in squid game are very real as well. Perhaps a bit dramatized in the show, but real nevertheless.
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  21. Niche is best. General overviews are a dime a dozen. I want the deep lore. The kind professors try to hide from us behind 3 inch thick hardcovers.
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  22. You know you've done a good job with your videos when I saw the title and actually knew what it meant, and was actually excited 😂
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  23. Dang, dad was a chip designer. Lucky! I'd loved to have been able to talk electronics/computers with my dad.
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  24. "Right arm was overworked and they needed to pump with their left" Story of my life
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  25. You know what I love most about your channel? The fact that you’re not using intros, background music, transition effects or any other form of flashy stuff. It’s really refreshing to just be able to listen to a well documented and structured story and not having to cope with all that distracting and annoying trash. Apart from being just pleasant, your subscriber growth also proves that it’s just not needed to irritate your audience. Great job!
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  26. Personally, I really enjoy the lithography videos. There isn't any other content like this on YouTube.
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  27. Great video, as always. Nvidia is selling a lot of pickaxes today but that doesn't mean everyone will find Californian gold
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  28. As someone working at ASML, I can say this video is surprisingly accurate.
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  29. 1965-1966 massacre was really terrifying, my grandfather from my father's side was accused of feeding the communist because "his homes have a lot of dish & ware", then he was sent to prison without trial and was beaten to almost dead. Most of my father's family escaped the 1998-1999 riot to Taiwan including my grandfather, he passed away last year cursing the Indonesian government.
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  30. I was engineer on a line that cost a million dollars a day to be down. What a job that was. Talk about motivation to keep ahead of problems.
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  31. Honestly, these videos on Korean corruption scandals and the conditions leading up to today are absolutely enlighntening, even as someone who majored in economics and even back then found the academic explanations about it absurdly lacking. This paints a much more interesting and complete picture about the conditions leading up to the 99 asian "tigers" crash. Honestly, your videos absurdy insightful.
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  32. I did my undergrad in physics and masters in quantum optics, and man, even then optics so often went over my head. I think you do a great job making such a complicated topic palatable.
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  33. In case anyone is wondering, no, the tap water here in Singapore is not cloudy or discoloured nor does it have a chemical or off taste (that I can detect anyway). It is potable straight from the tap though depending on personal preference some people still choose to boil or filter it before drinking. On a personal note, I was a teenager when Newater was being introduced to the public and remember each student receiving a little bottle of the stuff in school one day. We dared each other to be the first to drink it. It was a bit of an anti-climax when it just tasted like, well, water. 😂 I went home and told my parents about the experience, become a organic part of the PR for Newater. Today, I'm just thankful to have a clean, relatively inexpensive and consistent source of H2O at the turn of a faucet. Thanks Asianometry for the video!
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  34. I don't understand how you can possibly produce such information packed videos so frequently.
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  35. Power of friendship 🤣
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  36. From the 90s and onwards, Russian vacuum tubes became quite popular in the audiophile community worldwide, with manufacturers like Electron and Sovtek being very well received.
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  37. As a Brazilian I wasn't expecting that. Great video as well!
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  38. That was a really interesting video. Thank you. YouTube algorithm is working 👍
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  39. Secret to success: Find a good engineer, fund a good engineer.
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  40. Cray's naming scheme doomed the company. While people would buy a Cray-X or a Cray-Y computer, no one would buy a Cray-Z computer...
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  41. Many years ago I had a neighbor, Paul Kunming, who was a retired Westinghouse nuclear power engineer. He said Westinghouse made a major error by not incorporating desalination plants with nuclear power plants. If coastal cities could have a water supply, they'd want nuclear power plants.
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  42. Amazing! To give some sense of how old the 180nm node is, the original Willamette Pentium 4 released in 2000 was fabricated on a 180nm node. The 90nm node is what Intel used it to make the Dothan refresh of the Pentium-M in 2004, and the 65nm was used to make the Core 2 Duo in 2006!!! AMD's dark days in 2012-2016, during the Piledriver/Steamroller/Excavator era (before Zen) Global Foundries was struggling to move beyond the 32/28nm nodes!
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  43. The most surprising part to me is that despite all its woes, the country's population has quadrupled in the span of only two generations.
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  44. How TSMC changed our world actually.
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  45. I worked for Wang Labs at corporate headquarters ("The Towers...") for 8 years, first as a product manager for several software communications products and then as part of the marketing team for the Americas/Asia/Pacific region (China, Aus, NZ, Latin America, Canada). I joined in 1984 when the company was on a growth tear, profitable, and almost 32,000 employees and about $3B in revenue (and note that $3B was worth a lot more back then); I stayed until 1992, when the company declared Chapter 11, revenue dropped to about $1B, and 20k employees were laid off. I learned a tremendous amount at the company, travelled extensively (25+ countries), and not once ever thought we would fail, in spite of profitability, revenue, and product issues toward the end. Comments below lay blame on both Dr. Wang and on Fred (which are valid: Fred was not ready to take over the company, other senior managers (Cunningham, for example) saw no future for themselves and left, and the Doctor was unable to see beyond the end of the VS and the mini-computer). However, remember that several other companies - many of them based in Massachusetts - were also laid low by the rise of the personal computer, including DEC, Prime, and Data General. I spent 40 years in the tech industry, the last 16 as a tech industry analyst (Gartner and a couple others). I have been with companies that have gone Chapter 11 (Wang), run out of cash and closed the doors, gone public, been acquired, or have gone through massive downsizing. Tech is not for the faint of heart, but I can honestly say in 40 years I was never once bored. For readers who are newer to the tech industry, let me leave you with a couple thoughts on why the lessons of the ancient past (in tech, 1982 is ancient history) are still relevant: .If you think what happened to Wang can't happen to you or your company, you are wrong. Change always happens, and in tech it happens fast. (social media companies, I am looking at you). .The future is rarely predictable. Hard to realize today, but the idea of replacing typewriters, paper, and administrative assistants with computers was once radical. .The tech industry is a roller coaster. To survive you need a strong stomach and a healthy amount of stamina. And luck is a large part of it, right next to innovation and hard work. Anyone who hits it big and tries to tell you they didn't get lucky is fooling themselves. Great story by Asianometry, thanks for making this happen.
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  46. The space programs of the 60s through 80s made being a kid back the GREAT.
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  47. Perhaps my inner chemist but drinking waste water doesn't gross me out at all assuming it's properly filtered and treated.
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  48. As a much younger software engineer, I still remember this phrase I was taught regarding relational database development. The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key. So help me Codd.
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  49. Zippers! Of all things, zippers! If it's not a semiconductor video, I can never guess what Asianometry is gonna cover instead. You're all over the place, and yet somehow still bring the same level of research to all of them even if they're far out of your wheelhouse. It's amazing!
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  50. He's finally dune it, he's finally made a video about sand. He shore has some interesting topics for videos.
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  51. You're a diamond in the rough Asianomettry. I shouldn't enjoy such dry topics and presentations but you make it work, I love these essays.
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  52. My uncle was diagnosed literally months before the cure was made available in a study his doctor managed to get him into. Saved his life.
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  53. A future video on Lippo Group would be interesting to see. I went to a university ran by the Riady family and I heard stories about how the University paid rent to the Lippo Group. Basically the allegations were that the Riady family was paying themselves rent as a tax loophole.
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  54. When you are shopping in the supermarket with a empty stomach, you always bought more than what you can eat.
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  55. "...a lucky guess that got a lot more publicity than it deserved." - Gordon Moore.
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  56. I hate how companies will spend obscenely huge sums of money to build a better add campaign, but they won't spend a penny more than they have to when it comes to delivering an actual quality product and will cut every corner they can get away with in production rather than just making a better product.
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  57. "In the world of sand sales, solid information is hard to come by" 😂😂😂
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  58. Wow the first ever recall they gave you a signed letter, went to your home to pick it up and left a courtesy car. Fixed the issue and returned it with a full tank and car wash??? WTF That type of service feels unheard of today.
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  59. The ASML field engineer only makes between 90 and 110 grand a year and has to travel all the time, often on short notice (but at least the long flights are business class). The job is really tough on your body, with long hours of standing and moving heavy equipment. And you have to do it all in a clean room environment. But on the plus side, you get to work with the latest and greatest technology.
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  60. Sounds like you're alarmingly close to a burnout. Feel free to take a break or slow down uploads for as long as it takes. Your videos have a timeless quality to them where they remain extremely educational and interesting regardless of upload date. These are all incredibly broad yet deep topics and going at them solo at this rate and quality is already an impressive feat.
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  61. The fact that using a particle accelerator as a light source is being pursued as a more energy-efficient option is a little mind boggling.
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  62. Sad to hear the lithography videos don’t seem to do well. They’re some of my favorites and I hope you can find time for a few more.
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  63. I bet you when it goes down there's always that one guy that screams "fuuuuuuccck."
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  64. this channel is always a source and never a drain
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  65. Denis Ritchie is an underappreciated legend of IT history, nice to hear his name mentioned here. He and Jobs passed away on the same month and of course Jobs got all the mentions and credits while Ritchie was barely mentioned at all. Thanks for this.
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  66. Dear Asianometry, Once again thank you for another well researched piece. If you believe DeBeers, then there is a difference between "synthetic" diamonds, and "Real Natural Organic" diamonds, and of course that is why they cost more. Unlike Gold, Diamonds are quite common. I remember when some decades back the South American diamonds came onto the market, huge numbers of them in good quality, however by geologic tendancy, they were all predominantly "yellow" as a result DeBeers created a campaign to convince consumers that yellow diamonds were inferior and not as good as African or Russian Diamonds ( their mines of course ).
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  67. "The silicone carbide chips are placed inside a crucible, where they are subjected to high heat and McCarthyist accusations." Line delivered stone cold.😂
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  68. I really like the added humour you threw into the mix with the weird analogies and the more laid back tone throughout the video. Excellent content as always :)
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  69. "Semiconductor manufacturing is literally black magic. All of this just barely works, man." My favorite quote of this episode.
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  70. Misread that as “what’s next for asmr” and I was prepared for some hard hitting analysis of an entirely different kind of
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  71. It's sad, I live probably twenty minutes from the Bulgarian border, old enough to have been alive before the collapse of the eastern bloc and yet I had no idea that Bulgaria ever had such an industry or ever heard of it. This is very interesting.
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  72. “10 kF was thoroughly unnecessary…” reminds me of overhearing an Intel engineer at a pub in Hillsboro, Oregon about 1987 say something like “why would anyone need more than a 32 bit bus?!?” I was so flabbergasted at the narrow mindedness that I almost interrupted his rant.
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  73. I come for the semiconductor and microchip manufacturing knowledge, but I STAY for the MEAT KNOWLEDGE
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  74. Cannot agree more. The covid pandemic has yet proven this when it was the manufacturing industries (biomedical, pharmaceutical and semiconductor) that saved Singapore economy when the service industries (retail, F&B, construction and tourism) were down in dumps..
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  75. On a related note, the Indian government JUST recently unveiled a major scheme to develop new fab units and a manufacturing ecosystem. As an Indian student looking forward to working in this field, this is exciting stuff!
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  76. I LOVE THE ASAINOMETRY YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!!
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  77. Every school had access to many Pravetz computers, students were basically studying programming since 1st grade. We had easy access to literature on programming, computer graphics, VLSI chip design. And then suddenly in 1989-1994 everyone that knew anything about semiconductors and software emigrated to the USA, Germany and other countries. Massive sudden brain-drain. Microsoft's Windows kernel is afaik developed by hundreds of those engineers. During those years at least 1 million people emigrated. From 9 million population it suddenly went to 8 million, and it's now 6.4 million. I also emigrated later, since there were almost no jobs in software or hardware design in the entire country.
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  78. You know that FPGAs are magic when they seem even more mystifying and baffling the more you learn about them
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  79. Zhivkov, as the true tech enthusiast that he was, has a very famous quote on the day of the opening of a new semi-conductor factory: "This year a semi-conductor factory, next year a full conductor factory!"
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  80. I lived in South Korea for a year, and yes the street food vendors were all operated by elderly women. Very nice and the food was tasty, but yeah the competition between them was stiff and their prices were quite low.
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  81. It's surreal to see things that I remember as proof of concept research papers start to enter mainstream production.
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  82. I work here at ASML in logistics as a team lead. It's an amazing place to make a career and the technology here is incredible
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  83. Thank you for taking the time in your life to purchase these journals, do this level of research and present information in an rather unbiased way, newsletter is worth the sub.
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  84. What an interesting contrast to POSCO, South Korea's attempt at building up an indigenous steel industry. It was initially predicted to be an expensive failure but ended up producing steel at competitive prices and ended up supplying Korean industrial sectors such as automobiles and construction.
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  85. I hope you do a multipart series on AMDs history. It is truly fascinating. There are as many bold moves as there are instances of jeopardizing the company out of an insistence on treating employees like team members rather than consumables. That AMD survived from 2008 to 2014 is surreal in it's own right, and the comeback after that is even wilder.
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  86. This episode oozes all the things that makes Asianometry great. Expert, deep, quirky, silly, and interconnected.Thank you for what you do!
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  87. When working on outlining a writing project, I thought I'd give GTP4 a try as a writing assistant and sounding board. It was very impressive at first. I essentially just gave it all the outline material I'd worked on so far, and then I was able to have it give me summaries as I worked to connect all my points together. It was essentially remembering everything I'd come up with for me, completely uncluttering my mind and allowing me to focus on specific points with a lot more ease. And then I could ask it to take what I'd just done and suggest connections with the rest of the outline. It made working almost obsessingly easy. Then I tried to ask it for suggestions of points to add, way to tackle certain questions, etc. I could ask for historical references (which I would double-check), point out possible logical fallacies, etc. I was very impressed. And then I I started to realize how all of it was turning out to be an echo chamber of my own thoughts, and while some material GPT provided me with was indeed very useful, much of it was also just my own thoughts rehashed in a way that made it a bit harder to spot, especially in the middle of a creative momentum. So yeah, super interesting, but major caveats. Whoever uses such tools should remain wary.
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  88. My father ran a product development consultant company for 30 years. He said that depending on the size/maturity of the customer the project budget would go from 80% design 20% testing for small/new customers to 20% design 80% testing for large/mature customers. Seems like chip design is no different.
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  89. I've seen this kind of mentality seep into regular people too, who probably aren't really into hanfu or the whole idea of han supremacy. When I went with my mainland friends to eat at a xinjiang restaurant, they detested the idea and thought the style of cooking was ridiculous, saying "this is minority food" or "this is not the way to cook".
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  90. LoL, can you imagine asml doing youtube sponsorships? "Next time you're setting up a fab, consider asml" as though they were a meal delivery or vpn service. Hahaha.
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  91. A key moment in the development of Linux was when IBM adopted it for use on its computers, sometime around the year 2000. It was a brilliant move by IBM, which then had a much bigger reputation than today. IBM's stamp of approval made a lot of people more willing to consider Linux, and strengthening Linux helped to undermine both Sun and Microsoft.
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  92. I have an interesting experience with YKK. When I was in high school I lived in a town with a YKK production facility. The company sponsored an international exchange program where they sent students from Kurobe, Japan to America for a week. My family was lucky enough to be able to host one of these students and it was a great experience all around and one I’ll never forget
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  93. I started my professional programming career on Wang mini-computers. It was a much faster platform to program for than IBM systems at the time. Spent seven years on Wangs and watched them crash. I was fortunate to meet Dr. Wang at one point. They did breakthrough stuff with relational databases and that lead me to become a database specialist for the remainder of my career.
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  94. Camera lenses got better because designers could simply let the software run random variations of the lens over and over again to find a better design, the more compute power the more variations you can try and the more likely it is the find a better design. Modern smartphone camera lenses are so ridiculously complex, each element basically has a radial wavy surface that make no sense but somehow focus the light just the right way at the end with minimal aberrations.
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  95. Silly? Not at all! As a matter of fact, you gave me another dimension to like your channel. Not only is my job in IT ( thus luv the tech videos), but I do IT for real estate! All of the content here was great! Insights into franchises, what it takes to get a business off the ground, being relevant to the place you operate in, and how dynamic retail can be. Do more! It's great content!
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  96. The problem is their pension fund cannot keep up. Korea's GDP per capita was only less than US$250 in 1969 & above US$30,000 now. So whatever savings, even high %, that these elderly during their prime, would not be sufficient for today's spending. Normal interests rates would not be able to make up the difference. Singapore's CPF, (401k like pension fund) also face this issue. However Singapore had anticipated this and encouraged home ownership, especially for lower income through HDB. This way they could share the economic growth & success of the country. A HDB flat bought in 1970s at US$20k could worth US$500k today, providing good means of retirement fund.... either through downgrade of house or reverse-mortgage (LBS). That's why Singapore elderly are often call themselves, asset rich, cash poor. This could also encourage their children or relatives to take care of them in hope to inherit these assets.
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  97. "Financial services were the only growth industry." Sounds like microcosm of Britain.
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  98. As an electrical engineer, RF is, generally speaking, the blackest art in the whole discipline. The tech that goes into making the RF front-end bits in modern smartphones is on a whole other level, though. In addition to the craziness that is the filters you show here, I'd be fascinated to see your take on the incomprehensible antenna designs that somehow tune and work reasonably efficiently on six or more bands, or the power amplification and oscillator circuitry that operates clear through UHF and a big chunk of the microwave band.
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  99. Arguably cooler to have a manufactured diamond, anyone can just find one, manufacturing one is way more of an achievement
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  100. -"Comrades, you have lead melting temperatures, bottom of the ocean pressure and you know that acid in car batteries? Yeah that too.... so we need pictures" -"Colour or b&w?" -"Yes"
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  101. It always blows my mind how complex these machines are, how many technologies and innovations that has devoloped over decades to reach this point. Probably the most complex thing humans have ever constructed.
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  102. 11:22 “Graphene, a carbon-based nanomaterial that can do everything except leave the laboratory.” Nature and Science should put that up on their paper submitting system
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  103. "guy she told you not to worry about" 😂
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  104. "Aids, a generally unwanted condition". 😅😅😅 I'm dead
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  105. My father worked for CDC at the time Cray was working on the 8600. Cray wasn't keeping HQ up to date as to how things were progressing. They were progressing very slowly. Norris sent my dad, who he knew was a laconic, hardheaded type like Cray, to take a field trip to Chippewa Falls to ask Cray how things were going. That was an inspired decision as Cray spilled the beans, the 8600 was unlikely to ever work due to cooling and reliability issues. Dad borrowed some of my facsimile paper, a paper coated with toxic but conductive metal powder. If you apply current to the paper you can do a crude analog simulation of heat flow. The flow lines didn't look promising. My dad brought the bad news back to Norris and he quickly wound down the 8600 project, and that prompted Seymour to leave CDC.
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  106. My dad was one of those employees who lost their jobs due to the closure of NSC. As an accountant to the company he said during the time of fvr, the company was mismanaged and that there were too much higher level workers(manager supervisors and etc) than of the lower level ones.
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  107. Jon slowly working their way to making a video about everything that has the word yield associated with it
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  108. It's not at all surprising Warren Buffett declined to invest in a company that took a really smart guy to run it. Considering he has said he prefers companies that could be run by a ham sandwich.
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  109. Can we take a moment to apreciate how well written and explained Asianometry's videos are?
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  110. Some wafer technology doesn’t scale to larger wafers very well. Particularly non-silicon wafers that can only be produced in 150mm and 200mm sizes before inherent wafer defects create significant yield problems. 300mm equipment may double output, but it is often 5x+ regarding capital expenditure and maintenance cost.
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  111. I appreciate that you compared the cost of computers to the cost of a graduate student - that is an accurate way to depict what that relationship looks like
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  112. You didn’t mention one thing, the real winner of the Lexus was the Camry. It became a Lexus lite and destroyed the US and world car market. There was a huge difference between pre and post Lexus Camrys. Just massive.
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  113. Short answer: No. Long answer: Nope.
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  114. Your channel goes so far above and beyond in detail compared to others. You kill it bro, thanks for what you do.
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  115. I’m glad you pointed out something I’ve been saying for years: you’re not seeing what the camera sees, you’re seeing what the phone generates. It’s not a bad thing, because the raw data coming from that sensor is close to unusable. Optical designers can’t overcome the laws of physics.
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  116. 7-11 in Taiwan is CRAZY convenient. My uncle once got a parking ticket for $60 NTD, and 2 minutes later he went across the street to the 7-11 and paid off the ticket and got the usual lotto receipt to play the monthly drawing. My uncle told me at the time it was just easier to pay the ticket later than to find a parking meter because after all that's said and done, it's all just a wash and to him $60NTD for a parking ticket isn't bad and nothing really happens as long as you pay it on time. Considering how many 7-11 there are, you have no excuse. I forgot to mention we ended up buying ice cream and some other snacks which were more than the parking ticket itself, LOL!!!
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  117. .. I lived in Taiwan for 4 years, the salary is not that much but the perks as a citizen and residents are good, free medical coverage for all people, no need to buy drugs, free hospitalization, food is affordable, computers and appliances are very affordable, transportation is quite cheap, and standards as a society is very high... so what else do you need....
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  118. I work at a fab in facilities and just started taking care of the water systems and this video really helped understand wtf is going on. Thank you for the great research!
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  119. I worked at Sun from 2006 until the Oracle acquisition. A company who were truly, tremendously good to their employees, with incredible internal resources and staff. But every year after the first was one crisis after another. Amusingly Sun was, like all other enterprises at the time I joined, a total Blackberry shop. How quickly RIM's empire collapsed after the iPhone was released was interesting to view from that perspective considering how things were going internally.
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  120. I have no words to describe how much your work is amazing .. keep it up .. no channel is even close to your work
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  121. Its interesting that they were able to make such large cuts to the pensions. In the US the older people are the ones with the highest voting turn out, so its very difficult to touch their benefits
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  122. Dear Asianometry, As a young man in my early 20's working for the massive San Francisco Law Firms, I remember the entire floor was the Word Processing floor, it was composed of 30 to 40 women working on IBM Mag Card Selectrics using carbon paper. When the elevator door opened the noise was loud and staggering, and the room was filled with a blue-gray pallor in the air as everyone of the operators smoked ( mostly women of course ). All of that changed. One day I came to work and was doing a delivery to the Word Processing floor, and as the elevator door opened, the floor was quit, no smoke and almost empty except for 6 or 8 individuals working on these strange large cabinet like things with keyboards and screens, the word WANG was at the top. Fascinated I walked over and watched over the shoulder of one of the operators as they showed me how they could store entire pages of information and move words, sentences, or paragraphs all over the page, They were expensive, but the saved the firm a fortune in wages and benefits, and it was like looking at the future.
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  123. This is actually one of the biggest "secrets" of Singapore. Nowadays, when tourists visit Singapore, they only see shiny hotels and beautiful parks. What they miss is how Singapore's wealth is actually created. Jurong island can be seen from the coastal side, it's massive...!!
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  124. As one of your 3 female viewers (😂), I want to say thank you. I’ve subscribed to your Patreon a looong time ago and I like almost every video. The hearing aid video was fascinating. Good luck and if you ever come to Switzerland, I’m happy to have lunch with you. :)
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  125. If there was alcohol in those icebergs Australia would've done this a long time ago
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  126. Let’s all give a huge applause to Asianometry for always putting immense time into research. Always superb work.
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  127. As a Brit who works in the semiconductor industry (albeit not in the north east of England) that was a seriously impressive video. Your summary at the end was spot on too! Thank you for all your hard work @asianometry.
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  128. Saddest thing is not a lot of people will realize the amount of effort that went into making a single RF filter, let alone the whole phone.
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  129. This is truly an astounding machine. Kudos to all the scientists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, and precision fabricators for pulling it off.
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  130. Consider doing a video on Borland the seminal software tools and applications company. It was a huge part of the software industry from the mid-1980's through mid-1990's. Borland revolutionized and democratized software development by bringing its integrated software development environment (IDE) concept/tool to the masses. In 1990, Borland and Microsoft were the biggest software tool makers. Philippe Kahn was a swash buckling figure, ambitious and capable enough to challenge Microsoft on all fronts. It's quite possible Microsoft only defeated Borland because of anti-competitive, monopolistic actions (e.g. Windows ain't done until Lotus won't run), which it was later convicted of. It's worth noting that Anders Hejlsberg, inventor of C# and TypeScript, was Borland's langugage designer. Thanks for your edutaining videos. Best wishes.
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  131. From a Mechatronics engineer in a poor country with zero high tech industry (Colombia): thanks a lot for your analysis of the semiconductor industry, it absolutely blows my mind!! Much respect for Taiwan and South Korea, amazing people!!!
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  132. Nooooo way!!!! I'm a huge fan of your channel!!! Can't believe you made a video about my city
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  133. I simply had no idea how interesting dirt could be. Dude you rock!
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  134. I took a walk today, and passed by Samsung Semiconductor, ASML, and Maxim Integrated buildings. Seeing ASML made me think of Zeiss, and lo and behold, a video on the topic is released by your channel! Great content as always.
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  135. I has NO idea this is what it took to make EUV light for this manufacturing process. It's hard to believe, that out of all the people working on this, that this was the solution they landed on. Truly spectacular engineering and science. (if not straight up bonkers)
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  136. I remember how sharp the transition was from film to digital. I had a Nikon F2 with some fantastic lenses. Love that thing. The controls were perfectly placed. I could bang off 2-3 shots per second without a motor drive, focusing and tracking a moving car or running athlete. I bought a small dinky digital camera for experimenting, it was both horrible and liberating. The freedom of seeing shots immediately, of not having to take several shots of static scenes with bracketing exposures and wait for development, that crappy low resolution camera took over from the Nikon for that reason alone. Several companies kept claiming they were working on replacement camera backs which would make the Nikon digital, but none ever came through. I still miss that Nikon, I can still feel the perfect shutter button and winder, but if someone offered me a free one now with lifetime film, I still would prefer the phone camera, because the crappy camera you have is better than the superb one you left at home because it's so bulky.
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  137. Don’t shy away from more lithography videos, obviously if they add insight (which you have a keen sense for), you have shown you are the guy to make them. Thanks!
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  138. THE RANGE OF THIS CHANNEL! Literally I was so here for the sausage video last week that made me laugh and I thought was cool, and then also talking about serious stuff like this! I’ve thought about this a lot actually, and as a non-Asian who’s dedicated to learning more about Asian cultures and history, I’ve unfortunately come across a fair share of Han supremacist sentiment. Because diaspora tend to keep to their own communities in other countries, I don’t think it’s really recognized as a phenomenon in the English speaking world. I enjoyed the detail and thought of this video, and there’s a lot of parallels that could be explored (racial ideas in Japan for example also sound eerily similar) although ofc I respect the Taiwan/China focus of your channel. Super fascinating, super important, amazingly done!
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  139. This is seriously my favorite channel. I know NOTHING about any of this stuff, and after watching your videos I still don't know anything, but it sure is interesting.
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  140. Where I work we use 18.7MΩ UPW for ultrasonically washing massive coffee table size glass substrates before they're loaded into metal oxide electron beam vapor deposition chambers to be multi-layer dielectric coated with Bragg diffraction interference polarizers, anti-reflection coatings, and mirrors used in the construction of ultra-high power neodymium glass lasers for inertial confinement fusion research. The particle counter on the final deionized water loop from Particle Measuring Systems that detects down to 30nm diameter particles is the size of a desktop PC and costs about as much as my house. The software that runs the counter from the same company is actually amazingly crap and looks like something from the windows 3.1 era. Also PS, I really wish the ridiculous and very old myth of ultrapure water being "so toxic and corrosive because it sucks minerals out of everything it touches" would finally die. It's not. I've drank it. It's just water, it tastes great, I didn't die. The instant it touches your tongue, or you, or ANYthing except the hyperpure fluorinated polymer pipes that it runs through, it's not ultra-pure anything anymore, it's just normal water again with normal water's normal properties. One of those properties is actually really interesting - people always say water is clear and it just looks blue because it's reflecting the sky or has junk dissolved into it or whatever, but that's wrong, it's ACTUALLY blue. When we fill a super shiny stainless steel ultrasonic washer with it the color gradually gets bluer and bluer as it gets deeper and there's obviously no particle impurities in there doing it. All the color is coming from the third overtone of the stretching mode of the hydroxy group part of the water molecule absorbing a tiny amount of far red light in the tail of the absorption peak.
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  141. one way to feel old: you see a video of a historic review of things that happened during your professional lifetime. I fondly remember playing with a multics system in the ep500 scouts Wednesday nights after school. It had variable length segments of memory and we wrote code for it in PL/1.
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  142. I work in a cleanroom assembling these machines for ASML. We hold tolerances in microns and this video gives a good explanation of just why we do that lol
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  143. "Like all minerales and people, quartz is influenced by the enviroment in which it's grown". So double true. 👌
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  144. sequence error at 11:00 - multi-layer coated mirrors like this ABSOLUTELY cannot be touched, let alone polished, after being coated. The coating and its reflective properties would be instantly destroyed. All the super polishing has to be done to the substrate BEFORE the multi-layer deposition step. After coating, the mirror is done and must remain absolutely pristine.
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  145. Wow, Jocelyn Lleno is sill active in the industry. She was working at the San Francisco fab wiring circuits onto wafers by hand and now is in a senior position at Global Foundries in Upstate New York.
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  146. Dear Asianometry, I was born and raised in Hood River OR USA and I know this story very well, Hood River OR had a quite large community of Japanese-American farmers, many of them quite successful. In High School I went on one of my very first dates with a local girl. My Parents found out, and delicately informed me that it was their wish that I stop seeing her. Having never behaved in such a way before I was taken aback. No she was not Japanese American. When the US Government ( in a fit of racist paranoia as no German Americans went to camps ) sent the Japanese Americans to "...The Camps..." they had to leave their homes, possessions, but worse they had to leave their land, and farmland does not take care of itself. Often they would sell the land for a $ 1.00 someone in the area who would promise to sell it back when the war was over, and when they came back. The insult to their injury was that for some of them, when they came back they could not get their land back, or if they did, the land had been commercially raped, no fertilizer, no pruning, no care of any kind. The caretaker owners had sold every piece of fruit on the tress, year after year at top US Army prices, and making a small fortune. So when the Japanese-American family came back from the camps, and assuming they could even get their own property back, the farm had to be plowed up and started from scratch at great cost. Those who profited from the Japanese-Americans misfortunes were known, many of the more "liberal" or Christian members in the valley knew who these people were, it was a small world after all, and refused to associate with them socially or even in business ( some were even family ), and this is where my girlfriend story emerges, her family was one of those that had profited and my Parents had rejected her family. There was a deep, deep rift of feelings within the European-American community over this, it was a scar that lasted for many decades after the war.
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  147. It's good that silicon is such a team player considering the fact that it also happens to be the #2 most abundant element in the earth's crust
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  148. I love your work, John. I am a computer scientist who works on running symbolic AI (as opposed to just ML, which is generally dense rather than sparse) on GPU clusters. If you ever visit Syracuse, let me know, they say they’re building a memory fab here down the line.
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  149. 10:27 "We discovered something important today" easily qualifies as understatement of the century, possibly the millenium
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  150. Chafing is one of my most insidious natural hazards too
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  151. Dear Asianometry, It’s videos like these I appreciate the most from creators like you. I worked on a chip integration team for a awhile and I’m truly humbled by how capable modern IC design is. From my desk it just looked like lines of Verilog code but I new someday it would be turned into nanoscopic transistors on a silicon wafer and that’s amazing. It seems today’s generation is more interested in software but few appreciate that hardware has its own story to tell. I hope your content inspires younger people like myself to pursue a career in hardware.
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  152. This channel is so great. I get so excited when I see a new video is up. I'd like to tell you how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into these topics... But first: The Asianometry Newsletter.
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  153. It's amazing that there are so few views/comments for a subject that literally is about the heart of all the smart devices we use in the modern connected world. I think that most people will zone out after the first minute of technical terminology.
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  154. I love the video man, not silly at all. I think people would like more cultural insights into Taiwan.
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  155. From the ultra pure sand used to make silicon wafers to the very-specific-size-grain sand used for concrete... thrown in with a Star Wars sand reference. Yup, Jon, you've become a Sand Nerd :P
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  156. After WWII, many thousands of Japanese immigrated to Brazil. We already had some here since 1908 but their numbers grew exponentially. Currently, we have the largest Japanese population outside Japan, over 1.5M considering Japanese nationals and descendants of those first immigrants. There's even a very cool region in São Paulo called Liberdade (freedom) where you have many Japanese shops, architecture, restaurants, etc. Quite a cool place.
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  157. As a integrated IC designer I suppose I should feel a little threatened by such AI technology taking my job. But like all other design tools this will just make the remaining human designers more efficient and accurate. Early in my career I experimented with using the then available "optinmization" engines built into Cadence and ADS design tools and ran into the same problem you describe here: the local minima of the error function is often not the same as the global minimima. So humans still have to figure it out. You can't just go run off for coffee and wait for the solution to pop out. You address the floorplanning (layout) problem here. But as a schematic designer it is an exponentially harder task. If you already have a architecture and process node selected, I do conceed that a machine will be able to size and place devices faster and more efficiently than any human can. The problem is you have a creative step in front of it that is still in the land of human invention, intuition, and judgement. For now, anyway. I'm sure even that will be better done by machines one day. But for now I remain gainfully employed.
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  158. I stayed at bed and breakfast down near Gig Harbor Washington, home to one of the most massive Naval bases on the US West coast. We got inside, and the hostess were a homemaker and a man retired out of the navy. While she was showing my wife the decorating, he took me downstairs to his man cave / bar for a drink. On the bar was a weird item in a glass presentation case. He asked me to guess what it was and me knowing quite a bit about things immediately identified it as a section of an undersea Communications cable. This man was the former commander of the nuclear submarine USS Flounder, in a secret Mission decades ago,his crew located on the sea floor, and removd a section of Russian undersea military communications cable and added a recording device and this was a section of that cable taken on that mission.
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  159. I'm amazed that you made such a detailed video about cows just to be able to talk about TSMC's new fab in collaboration with Sony in Japan
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  160. My father was one of the students to work on the computer projects first in ITA as an undergraduate and later at Politecnica/USP during his doctorate on the ugly duckling. Today he is retired as a professor emeritus, one of the founding members of the Brazilian computer society and a pioneer in Brazil. Amazing to see this here.
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  161. The dynamic range for audio is not the range of frequencies it can play but the range of amplitude it can play. More specifically it’s the ratio of the amplitude of noise, and the loudest possible amplitude.
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  162. As a chemist, sodium is 3x the weight of lithium and weight is critical to efficiency. Stationary storage it may work but not transport imho.
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  163. My first engineering job was designing the "packages" for BAW resonators. Your ability to digest and present highly technical and niche information like this is bordering on savant-like.
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  164. One notable Philippine steel company that's been investing in expanding their capacity in recent years has been Steel Asia, which has invested several billion dollars in integrated steel mills over the past few years. They've offered to revive the Iligan steel plant.
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  165. No idea silting claimed that much of a reservoir capacity each year…
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  166. How in the world did you get this out so fast
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  167. You can pay tax, bills, buy train and concert tickets, send donation money to most charities, call taxi, photocopy/print out/fax, collect all your online shopping items, send parcels, withdrawal cash, and even have your business meetings there. That's why ppl like convenient stores in Taiwan
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  168. The drama of the semiconductor industry is long, wide and varied; not just the interconnection of transistors but the players themselves. Always a good time to get a glimpse into that world.
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  169. Hey I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy and am informed by your videos - love your choice of topics, sometimes quirky (Venera Program), sometimes highly topical (Hardware for AI) but always insightful. Your level of engagement with the physics and math hits just right for me. Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous 2023!
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  170. This channel is unbelievable... the content is so detailed and you put out so much content. I literally watch everything you put out religiously... I'm a EE/CS that's a software engineer by the way.
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  171. I'm always so impressed by the quality of your research and story telling. Here's another outstanding video. Thank you!
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  172. I did not expect to learn how groundwater works from this channel. Love Asianometry.
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  173. That mom joke contrasts so well with the serious tone of the video lol.
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  174. Philips is such a terribly run and managed company. They have squandered so much that they had in tech and medical.
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  175. Humans aren't designed perfectly, but we need to develop robots to walk around our buildings. It's like QWERTY: it's not optimal, but it's the standard.
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  176. Another cool thing about FPGAs is their interconnects. Decades ago, we didn't worry too much about how a signal got from A to B, because wire wrapped and FPGAs implemented them for us. Then came along higher speed circuitry. Electromagnetic fields coupled signals in one wire to another wire, especially if those wires ran parallel to each other. We didn't worry about what was inside the FPGAs, because they seemed not to have this cross coupling problem. Finally we decided to characterize this phenomenon to wire interconnects on the boards. We came up with something the RF engineers used - micro strips and strip lines. Most of you will recognize them, because boards are constructed of layers. These layers are GND, then interconnects, then PWR, then interconnects, and so forth. This solved the glitch problem. CPLD and FPGA manufacturers figured this out much earlier, probably because they came from the ASIC world.
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  177. Fantastic video, love the extra humor sprinkled in!
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  178. World’s hardest working YouTuber. I’m not sure how you manage to create these incredible videos in such rapid succession. I hope the thousands who watch your videos donate generously.
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  179. As a full time verification engineer, I hate shortened chip development cycle (and modern capitalism in general tbh). This is causing an amazing stress on verification team due to limited time constraints (this and increased tapeout queues at fab - if you miss your time slot you would have to wait for another half of year) . Besides, there are times when throwing more team on the project will only cause more problems in a same way as throwing more cores on the processor will not yield expected N time productivity. I sometimes think about switching back to software jobs simply because verification usually ends up being an overtime mess.
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  180. If I were your dad I'd be proud. Nice job.
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  181. This is a very similar concept to "prions" which are more stable forms of proteins which can spontaneously change other proteins to the new form. This can be very dangerous, as evident by the mad cow disease outbreaks caused by prions. Additionally, prions are extremely hard to sterilize against, and can last in the environment for decades.
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  182. 1:48 Singaporean here, can confirm that the robust supply of cats is one of the biggest drivers of our productivity growth. The advent of cat videos on YouTube in the early 2000s only augmented that growth.
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  183. Unless you knew about ultrapure water treatment, walking through the visitor centre is like going into a science museum (but water!). They had model and interactive displays of the main filtration techniques UF, RO, UV and you can even look into the treatment plant itself. Having kids go on school trips there does also help make it more normalised and acceptable in the younger generation, though we can always have the toilet water joke
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  184. I got diagnosed with hep c a couple years after this drug was approved by the FDA. I remember the big sigh of relief I experienced when my doctor told me that it seems like it cleared on its own and no further treatment is needed after further and subsequent retestings. Apparently about 20% to 35% of those infected with hep c can spontaneously recover. I consider myself very lucky.
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  185. As a nation they were very wise to invest in a field where they could become a world leader. Taiwan has come so far from the post-war years of plantations and plastics.
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  186. This discussion of error rates & yields makes me think of DNA transcription. Our cells might only make 1 error per 100,000 base pairs when transcribing DNA, but the genome is complex enough that we still need a massive error-handling infrastructure to keep all those errors from killing us.
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  187. Interestingly just within the past few years, a few small scale gem cutters and dealers have realized that the companies making this material have failed boules and offcuts that they will sell very cheaply which can be turned into highly unique jewelry with stupendous qualities of ultra bright fluorescence, extreme color play due to high index of refraction, and incredibly long lived (many hours) phosphorescence. Specifically House of sylas and Angry Turtle Jewelry in the US are essentially creating a whole new market around synthetic crystal jewelry usually involving things like BGO, lutetium–yttrium oxyorthosilicate, and lutetium aluminum garnet. If you search for these terms or their names on social media you can see examples of some really fantastic material they're making.
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  188. This video title has to be the least clickbaity title ever! Love it!
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  189. It's worth noting that ASML's wafers per hour are usually quoted at 20 mJ/cm2. But most processes uses 30-40+ mJ/cm2. Wph decreases linearly. ASML was going to quote numbers at 30 at one point,not sure if they made the jump yet.
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  190. I'm surprised in countries that have deserts there aren't even an prototype of concentrated solar desalination plant. Edit: I see in the replies many people miss understood what i mean, i don't mean solar panels. Concentrated solar is made with mirrors pointed to an object in this example massive glass dome filled with water.
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  191. I met Mr. Cray when he was installing a Y-MP at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque. I was a young Lieutenant and they actually used one of my finite element models as a benchmark.
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  192. As someone that works on the TEL Cellesta-i systems, it gives me great pride to tell people I am a dishwasher mechanic.
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  193. I walk by one of these old round Cray-2s regularly at work. The plaque says they paid $19M for it (in the 80's), and it's something like 1/100 as powerful as an iPhone X.
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  194. Thanks for being precise about Machine Learning. There's way too much BS floating around on that field. The reinforcement learning approach seems like another decent tool in the box to takle a very difficult problem. Honestly that's more than anyone can ask for, imho.
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  195. have mercy on my sleep schedule
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  196. Hardware security is a field which is not in lime light and many people are unaware about it. Thanks for highlighting this.
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  197. As a former Sun reseller and support contractor, I'm very happy for you covering my favorite company for your christmas video. Thanks! I'm still working in Solaris support today and have a large collections of systems around. So sad that Oracle has ruined what was once a great company.. but that's what happens when a software guy buys a hardware company and has no idea what they actually do or how to run them. When Ellison swooped in, the first he did was double the system prices and triple the support contract fees, and struck down any special deals that Sun had going with their largest customers for decades. This lead to most of those customers taking the jump over to Linux clusters, that were just about becoming mainstream enough at that time.
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  198. It's been said by economist and data scientist Vaclav Smil that manufacturing is the base for everything else. Another study has found that above a certain finance to GDP ratio (and the USA is well above this, as is Hong Kong), finance actually hurts the economy. "Liquidity" that disappears during stressful times, which is modern finance, is parasitic and does more harm than help. At one point 33% to 50% of Princeton engineers ended up working on Wall Street.
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  199. Incredibly good eye/ear opener! If you contrast HK with Singapore, the highlights are even clearer. I highly recommend this video and of course, this channel.
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  200. These bags are unreasonably expensive. In 2007 my wife and I went to France for vacation. We stop by LV store, she spent $6000 for TWO bags!!??? 15 yrs pasted and these 2 bags are still in her our safe in the bank. In a box, in a bag in another bag, for each bag. Never used. I do not understand.
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  201. My Father used to work for GEC when they were making the first germanium transistors. He said they would use car headlamps as a heat source to attach the legs to the Germanium wafer. He kept a load of the prototypes that had exceptionally high gain.......I tested some the other day and they are still good 69 years later.
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  202. Very, very nice video. Speaking of the military, I recommend you do a video about the "Three Heavies" (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries aka Subaru) and their very important relationship with Boeing. I don't hear many people talking about that.
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  203. As someone who's been following chip lithography for close to 3 decades: The next step is always "a major crisis". This started already in the early to mid 90s. And I think "we" learned from EUV to not put it off. That EUV was delayed by a decade just got the fabs to become insanely good at multi patterning. TSMCs N7 was an absolute bonkers smash-hit. It's only downside was that the hundreds of patterns made lead times enormously long. N6 uses DUV for almost everything, but has two critical layers moved to EUV. This, besides the small logic shrink, made it absurdly cost effective, and is the reason why AMD likes to do everything possible on N6. EUV vs High NA-EUV will probably be the same: They will figure out how to make sure they only use it for one or two layers in the beginning. If that's the action plan, then maybe a polarizing filter is financially viable.
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  204. Can’t believe I randomly decided to check Asianometry only to find out he had uploaded 8 seconds before. So much win!
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  205. I'm intimately familiar with this topic because I was an early adapter of DLP projectors for home theater use. 1-chip DLP has a serious flaw, in that, at any given moment, there is only one of the primary color being projected onto the entire screen. Some people are much more sensitive to the so called "rainbow effect." Moving your head quickly can exacerbate the issue. They reduced the problem by either spinning the RGB wheel faster, or doubling up the colors into RGBRGB wheel, so that one color stays on the screen for a shorter amount of time, each. Technically, even 3-chip DLP will have many pixels displaying just one color at some moments, but these are per-pixel effect, not whole screen effects. Fundamentally, what is projected onto the screen is a pulse-code-modulation pixels. Each pixel is either ON or OFF at any given time, and in case of 1-chip DLP, in one of the Red/Green/Blue. There is no grayscale. It's just ON or OFF. Each pixels blinks at incredibly fast rate, you can't normally tell, and the brightness is controlled by the rate of ON time, vs. OFF time (hence PCM). For example, 50% brightness would be represented as ON/OFF/ON/OFF/ON/OFF and so on. 1/3 brightness would be ON/OFF/OFF/ON/OFF/OFF, although they could throw in some randomness to making it look more natural to human brains.
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  206. I am a lecturer in electrical engineering from Thailand. In recent years, I have been in contact with colleagues and students from India. They are very motivated and passionate about high tech industries. I think that India will have a bright future with a lot of young people who are willing to study difficult subjects and to work in areas where STEM education is required. You are right about the hard disk drive industry in Thailand. No significant tech transfer took place here. We just deliver manufacturing service. Regarding semiconductor design, we do have a leading fabless company specialized in HF RFID and NFC in Thailand. The company name is Silicon Craft Technology. You might want to make a video clip about this interesting company in the future. Thank you for the great contents. I am involved in a discussion on the national level regarding expansion of the semiconductor and smart electronic industries in Thailand. Your contents provide very useful information for the development plan.
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  207. Love the new imperial units. Currency: fractions of 1 Messi contract at Barcelona. Electricity: fractions/multiples of 1 WalMart.
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  208. As someone who grew up in Japan, hearing the rice cake saying was just amazing. The lack of research is what makes 99% of youtube channels trash - you are in the 1% my good sir. Thanks for the amazing video essays as always, love to hear about the industry as both my parents work at tech companies in Japan 🇯🇵
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  209. It is interesting how India's north western states like Punjab, Haryana suffers largely from the same issues. Over draining of ground waters and dependence on Rice and Wheat.
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  210. This channel is super-informative. Even though I work at imec and go there every day, like 80% of what he said was news to me! You are amazing Asianometry! Keep up the great work.
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  211. This is by far the most interesting, obscure tech history video you've ever made. I asked my Bulgarian friend if he knew any of this and he said that his grandpa did something in electronics back in the communist times but he didn't really know the details. When I forwarded him the video, he was absolutely shocked. Apparently, young Bulgarians don't know any of this stuff meaning it never got ingrained in the zeitgeist like coal mining is to West Virginia (which has practically no coal miners) or Detroit and cars.
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  212. A largely automated present-day container ship can carry more tons than the merchant fleet of an entire early modern kingdom. In 1582, the English merchant fleet had a total carrying capacity of 68,000 tons and required about 16,000 sailors. The container ship OOCL Hong Kong, christened in 2017, can carry some 200,000 tons while requiring a crew of only 22. Source: Yuval Noah Harari, Financial Times
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  213. a forecast of a decade, based on a few years data, just to fit sales targets.. is now, more than legendary. Mythological as it were. Amazing. Thanks Jon. Really interesting stuff.
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  214. Always blown away by the research and numbers here. Would love to get some insight on the research process behind these videos
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  215. You should do a special video on just keeping the air clean inside a fab. Everything for the building envelope to the HVAC equipment. These places are thousands of times cleaner than any operating room
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  216. Another emerging application of MEMS is in all-optical field programmable photonics gate array (FPPGA). It is basically an FPGA for photonics integrated circuit (PIC). The PIC (and silicon photonics, as this is the most potential candidate for the platform) itself is already dubbed as post-moore technology so knowing researchers trying to build this technology is very exciting. Major project like H2020 MORPHIC has made significant result to realize this technology. PS: Photonics Research Group from U Ghent has a YouTube channel to spread their latest update on their works. Their explanation videos on FPPGAs are easily digestible and quite fun to watch.
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  217. This channel is so good.
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  218. I haven't been in the hardware business since about 1996. In some ways, the changes seem almost trivial; I remember discussions of stacking bare silicon chips, heat dissipation, packaging, interconnects, etc, but we were a board-level company, so it was all just poorly-informed guesswork. These discussions are fascinating in their details.
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  219. I've never heard DRAM pronounced as "DRAM" before. Always as "D-RAM". Probably to denote the difference between DRAM and SRAM, or Static RAM,
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  220. I worked in crystal manufacturing. I saw a lot broken necks. This mostly happens when the finished crystal is ready to put out of the oven. In fact it happens while it gets put out. The crystal swings out of the oven. And the shear force does its job. Then you have to clean the whole machine because parts of the crystal fall in 1000 pieces. Which sometimes damage the glas crucible. Which isn’t so bad. It’s not reusable anyway. But the oven itself can get damaged. If everything works, the neck will be cut by pliers.
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  221. So much to say after watching this, so sad that Dr Wang’s dying wish was for his company to be remembered and honored for being founded by an immigrant, I looked up his name at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and they have hardly anything about him. wang should be better remembered. sadly very few people remember this company and even less know it’s founder, even though they went toe to toe with IBM. one other interesting note besides the invention of core memory, Wang invented the SIMM. incredible work on this video, as always your videos are so rich with details and nuanced history. I’m blown away. The anecdotes you mention about An Wang, his early history, all the pictures of products, I can’t heap enough praise. The story about John Cunningham is quite sad too, he is not remembered at all and sadly passed away in 2013. just a sad story all around. I want wait for this video to be public so I can share it. this story needs to be known.
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  222. As a pre-SQL programmer, SQL was a game changer. Using SQL gave me a logical, abstract view of the data structure, significantly reduced my design and coding time, and allowed changes to the database structure without having to break code or migrate data. I used several systems on PCs like DBase and Firefox which had SQL database at their core. Also need to remember that systems back then were so constrained by CPU performance, memory storage, and disk capacity that SQL would have been too large to run on some of the early computers. Great video as always!
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  223. I came for semi conductor tech but stayed for the well researched and delivered multitude of topics.... So the silicon bule analogy was welcome.
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  224. Hey Jon, I'm pushing TSMC to have a fab tour (hopefully fab 18) after computex next year. They're slow to open up, but there's hope. I'll push for you to be added to the list if it goes ahead.
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  225. As an Indian who is neutral about Pakistan, this video was educative. This should be a wake up call for India too. Contrary to what most people think, the farming methods here are not that different. Stubble burning in Punjab causes Delhi to become a gas chamber every year. Sometimes, a neutral viewpoint is necessary to see things in the correct perspective and take remedial action wherever necessary.
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  226. In the mid 80's I worked at a silicon design firm. Mostly 3 micron gate arrays. My boss and a really sharp engineer from the client company designed a modem chip. Their first silicon worked fine which elevated them past hero status to God of silicon design status. Mixed signal chip design is something like witchcraft. Thanks for another great video!
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  227. Great video Jon! Thanks for the mention. Thought you did a good job on framing the open source tools and the aims.
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  228. Hubei and Hebei are different provinces. Their pronunciation is slightly different. I owild reccomemd rerecording the audio to fix this.
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  229. The electron gun assembly in the diagram is backwards. The pins connect to the TV's circuit board.
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  230. I'm curious why a mix of rock and sand isn't used. As a mining engineer in Australia. We could send them untold volumes of NAF (Non Acid Forming) crushed waste rock from any number of mines in whatever size they want for penny's on the $$. I mean, presently it's just being dumped on the waste rock pile. It's already blasted and stockpiled. It literally has no value here. In fact it represents a significant cost to keep expanding the waste rock dump. Thus if someone wanted to pay transport it would represent a cost saving here. Would surly reduce the volume of sand required and provide a more stable foundation it a blend was used.
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  231. Harder, better, faster, stronger. Can't believe they split.
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  232. Whilst recycled water didn't catch on in most places in Australia it did end up being used in Perth the capital of Western Australia. The main reason it succeeded there was thanks to a large public information campaign to properly inform the public of how it works and why it's needed.
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  233. I developed optical ICs and simulators 27 years ago. Glad to see that the market has finally moved ahead to use the technology. Now the need has increased sufficiently to justify production development. Applications include LIDAR and high speed optical communications. The need will not be as high as other technologies but the volume will be enough to employ quite enough engineers.
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  234. This hurt to watch as a Filipino. Sucks, and I do hope we can finally revive our industries here with competent leadership…someday.
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  235. The obvious flaw with comparing TSMC's RnD spending with Intel's is that Intel also designs a plethora of chips and software solutions. TMCS only has lithography, packaging and PDK development. Intel also has these on top of everything else. Alphabet and Meta seems to spend money on a lot of useless things "just in case it sticks".
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  236. I know it sucks when your video doesn't seem to get appreciated by the masses, but you're doing great work here. There are a thousand economic/tech history channels. What you put out with these is unique. Perhaps consider making these for a separate channel, or make a series?
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  237. I really like that you make videos about such a broad range of topics. From semi-conductors, etc. to antibiotics. And all of it informative, not using to the entertainment addiction of most people nowadays. Maybe entertainment addiction psychology would be an interesting video topic?
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  238. I feel like you're the only channel I know that can get me really engaged in this kind of stuff without dumbing it down to the point where I'm hardly even learning anything. Really exciting tech to see. Thanks for the vid!
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  239. In the 80s, US embargo, Chinese embargo, and collective farming was a nightmare. I was hungry all the time.
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  240. This is absolutely fascinating. Like you said it's amazing to see all these companies that are competitors all getting together to make a massive change in their whole industry happen time and again, a process that cycled until the turn of the millennium
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  241. Maybe a video about Zeiss could be interesting as well.
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  242. i love how your sense of humor is so deadpan that it is barely discernable, yet beneath the surface lies some of the most maniacal hatred i have ever heard
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  243. This made me sad. As a Chinese American who also a Shanghainese, Wang's story is so typical and relatable to many Asian families. The first generation experienced war and hardship, came to the US and worked extremely hard to build up a successful family foundation. I remember hearing my parents talking about Wang labs when they were poor graduate studentsin America. I'm also old enough to grow up poor in China and struggled along side my parents. Forged in hardship, my parents were frugal and shrewed, built up several million in 30 years, and I am successful enough to expand it further. Yet, unlike us, my children are born relatively wealthy, never known hardship. Listening to Wang's story strengthens my worry that their lack the 吃苦奋斗 spirit would eventually undo the labor of two generations. Wang's story illustrates the old Chinese saying 富不过三代, and shows a major flaw of Asian family traditions.
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  244. I live in Iligan City, and I'd say, there's a huge steel masterpiece at their admin building, it's beautifully made, like a huge canvas of steel art, welded by highly skilled welders. Also, NSC was so popular back then, and the employers there were so rich they can even pawn their uniform. Even when I go to Cebu and ride a cab, when the drivers were informed that I live here, they'd immediately ask me about NSC.. I also had a chance to get inside the property, which is really strict before pandemic, and it's amazing, there are also a lot of preserved things there that were displayed like the first computer invented, the uniform, the helmet, etc., everything you'll see at NSC back then. It's not that easy to get inside though, so I was quite lucky to get the chance. Interestingly, there's a black horse roaming freely around it. :D
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  245. I figured this had to be a full-time gig for you, because I couldn’t imagine how you could possibly research and produce so much comment even on a full-time basis 😮 Seriously consider dropping to 1x/week: If you’re feeling burned out, you’re already more burned out than you realize. I hit terminal burnout in my own business, and 3 years later, I still don’t feel I’ve fully recovered :-/ Far better to prevent it happening in the first place, take it from someone who knows… 🙁 (But huge props and thanks for all the fantastic material you’ve provided in the past; you absolutely set the bar for tech history and narrative!)
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  246. Appreciate the extremely concise video and presentation! Such a rare treat nowadays when content creators tend to spend a quarter of the time with an unnecessary intro, a tidbit of content, a sponsor, and then blabbering about saying goodbye. Keep it up!
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  247. Thanks Jon, as usual a brilliantly researched topic. As another commenter stated "Niche is good". In the years to come, you will be regarded as the definative semiconductor historian.
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  248. My favorite application for mems is in aviation, since I am a recreational pilot. One of the first and most successful application of mems was accelerometers, which don't need openings in the package to work. Accelerometers can replace gyroscopes as well as enable inertial navigation, since they can be made to sense rotation as well as movement. With the advent of mems, avionics makers looked forward to replacing expensive and maintenance intensive mechanical gyroscopes with mems. A huge incentive was reliability: a gyroscope that fails can bring down an aircraft. The problem was accuracy. Mems accelerometers displayed drift that was worse than the best mechanical gyros. Previous inertial navigation systems used expensive laser gyros that worked by sending light pulses through a spool of fibre optical line and measuring the delay due to rotation. Mems accelerometers didn't get much better, but they are sweeping all of the old mechanical systems into the trash can. So how did this problem get solved? Well, the original technology for GPS satellite location was rather slow, taking up to a minute to form a "fix". But with more powerful CPUs it got much faster. But GPS cannot replace gyros, no matter how fast it can calculate. But the faster calculation enabled something incredible: the GPS calculation could be used to calibrate the mems accelerometers. By carefully calculating the math, a combined GPS/multiaxis accelerometer package can accurately and reliably find a real time position and orientation in space. You can think of it this way: GPS provides position over long periods of time,, but very accurately, and mems accelerometers provide position and orientation over short periods of time, but not so accurately. Together they achieve what neither technology can do on its own. The result has been a revolution in avionics. Now even small aircraft can have highly advanced "glass" panels, that give moving maps, a depiction of the aircraft attitude, and even a synthetic view of of the world outside the aircraft in conjunction with terrain data. It can even tell exactly which way the wind is blowing on the aircraft because this information falls out of the GPS/accelerometer calculation.
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  249. One small correction: As you said, first came contact printing, and then they provided a small gap between the mask and the wafer. This is call proximity printing. This greatly reduced defects. But to get to even more resolution, they moved the mask away from the wafer and put a lens in between the mask and the wafer. This is what is called projection printing or lithography. The image of the mask is projected onto the wafer. This was done at first across the whole wafer. To further improve resolution, they made step and repeat systems to project onto a small area of the wafer at a time. These are the steppers that we have to this day, but of course with increasingly higher resolution with every generation of the steppers.
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  250. I see asianometry, i watch asianometry
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  251. I remember when engineering workstations were the most powerful stand alone desktop computers. They, at onetime were many time more powerful than any IBM PC (and its 386 clones) or Apple desktop computer. But, in time Moore's law changed everything, and consumer grade PCs eventually could run the most sophisticated CAD/EDA and simulation software, at a much lower cost. Sun and Apollo workstations had lost their edge. The last thing I remember from Sun was Java.
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  252. MOM MOM ASIANOMETREY MADE ANOTHER TRANSISTOR VIDEO, GRAB THE POPCORN
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  253. Thank you so much for this video I've waited for it so long! You nailed it, as always. Much love from Bulgaria ❤ Fun fact: Todor Zhivkov once famously said on the opening of semiconductors plant: "this year a semiconductor plant, next year for whole condcutors" 😂 (I don't know if it makes sense on English as translation is hard)
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  254. The first time I visited Taipei to play a concert, it was the first trans-pacific show on our trip. It was a long day and got in very late. It was mind blowing that the 7-eleven on the corner from our hotel had absolutely everything I needed to get a good nights sleep- 300ml of Johnny walker, a gigantic lager, chapaghetti, and Winston menthols. Beautiful city, had an amazing time. <3
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  255. You treat your visit with the excitement of a child going to Disney on Christmas Day for their birthday.
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  256. Man every one of your videos is so well put together and presented. Many thanks for your time and effort in doing this. I am happily subscribed awhile ago. :)
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  257. Nature documentaries are going to be insane if these things have cameras.
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  258. Great video. Vietnam's story shows the importance a proper planing and learning from the mistakes others have already made regardless of party politics.
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  259. That is so neat that your Father worked for Semi. He sure raised a bright and hard working son. I'm sure he is very proud of you. Thanks for all your work. One of the very BEST youtube channels!
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  260. "Idk guys this video is pretty niche and probably won't do well -" Goes on to unroll the most fascinating semiconductor historical deep-dive with ample visual aid and citations. I love this channel so much.
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  261. Surprised you didn't talk about the benchmarks of Hygon over at AnandTech or Level1Tech.
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  262. As a ML researcher it is interesting to watch, unless run at extreme scales, regular chips are just enough especially for inference
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  263. hope u are doing better, noticed you were down last video, dont know what happened (if anything) but just wanted to let you know my (and many many more people) appreciation for your superb content, subtle humor and excellent information! :p
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  264. I've been looking for this comment. This guy not only has a great sense of humour, but he does his research. Either that, or he's a lot older than he sounds.
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  265. Your channel is one of the very few channels that bridges the gap between a good lay understanding of the semiconductor industry and a professional understanding of the semiconductor industry. Its a very rare thing to find in any field. I find it interesting that the "secret" part of "trade secrets" is becoming less and less important as a smaller and smaller number of people or corporations or nations are actually capable of making use of those secrets. I appreciate the explanations that companies like ZEISS give for the construction and function of their optical systems, but on its own it doesn't really increase your understanding of how the whole process works. I get a lot of people in the maker space asking questions like "why can't we 3d print our own microchips". This is why. There's no half-assing an EUV light source. Similarly, there's no half-assing ultra-pure water or the purity and precision of reagents and gasses used in semiconductor manufacture. One microscopic droplet of process oil in a gas stream is enough to ruin a processor, or, worse, ruin a photo-mask. If you're lacking for ideas for videos, one of the things I don't really understand well is how wafers are cut and polished. I'm assuming this has had to keep up with the process nodes as well.
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  266. Would love a vid maybe expanding a bit on the alternatives to EUV such as nano-imprint (pushed, as it is, by the Japanese) or advances in packaging/stacking (?) which I've read may be one good way to reduce the overemphasis on and/or need for ever-more expensive lithography equipment. Sorry if there is already a video on this
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  267. Having watched 7 hours of Asianometry videos today, I can confirm feeling 43% more intelligent and 64% less hungover than when I woke up this morning.
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  268. 9:35 - emotional support wafer had me balling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  269. We often use the moon landings as an example of what humans can do when sufficiently motivated and financed. The tech used to make computer chips makes all the Apollo stuff look simple.
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  270. I have learned more about fab processes from your channel than I did getting an electrical engineering degree.
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  271. I really appreciate the seriousness and respect with which you tackled this topic (though this could really be said about all your videos)
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  272. Great video! Please continue to make this Sovietometry content.
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  273. It always interested me how at&t was viewed by many as the innovative tech company of the time while today we view it as nothing more than a basic service
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  274. In 1982, I was privileged to derive benefits from the 2 Wang Word Processors. Previously we had to proof read the printed papers from IBM Selectric typewriters; and we dreaded changes because that meant that the secretaries had to retype the page itself. With the Wang Word Processors, we could read the text in the CRT and made corrections before being printed. And even after printing, we could make changes and it was so much faster to edit and print again: something that we take for granted nowadays. The honour of using the Wang Word Processors were only given to the senior secretaries and the junior ones had to wait to learn and use. The reason? Each word processor costs SGD 18k then; and a fresh accounting graduate's monthly salary was only around $1k. LOL
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  275. Yes I used to make rubylith masks for thick film printing and that was painful enough let alone trying to cut a chip design. It was quite satisfying when done but stressful until the last strip had been removed without tearing.
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  276. I would guess 99% of people have no idea how complex and coordinated (between many companies and countries) making chips is. Thank you for making some of us a bit more knowledgeable. Literally, a bit.
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  277. "With great flexibility comes great misakeability." I love it! 🙂
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  278. As someone doing their PhD in advanced packaging, I'm glad it's being discussed 😊 can't wait for the 3DHI video
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  279. Thank you for the to-the-point informative video. It's worth mentioning that the Chinese crypto mining operations were by and large situated in areas that rely heavily on coal based energy (such as Inner Mongolia). From an ecological point of view, this pretty much makes crypto mining an environmental disaster.
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  280. Since you mentioned the ITA, perhaps you will be interested in its creation, its role in the creation of Embraer and the whole Brazilian aeronautical industry.
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  281. Brilliant short summary. I really like this channel.
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  282. I love how your videos center semiconductors in compelling human stories 💪❤️
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  283. I've learned more about semiconductors from your channel than any other youtube "documentary" video ever. Thanks for sharing your detailed knowledge. Truly a joy to listen to someone talk about their passion.
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  284. Every time I watch your videos, I feel a little smarter about a subject I knew nearly nothing about. I appreciate the lessons, thank you.
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  285. Damn I'd never even heard of Wang labs before today but they must have been formidable. Really sad story, thanks for the excellent content as always.
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  286. You didn't mention one of the key aspects of Google's TPU (and other specialist AI processor) compared to a GPU is also the number representation. GPUs can process 32 and 16 bit IEEE floating point numbers. But for AI work Google found that the fractional part of the number (commonly known as the mantissa) is less important than the magnitude (the exponent) and so they changed the number of bits allocated to each in their own BFLOAT16 format. That makes their processors better for AI, but relatively useless of other kinds of numerical computation.
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  287. Lmaoo That mom joke caught me off-guard
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  288. The acquired podcast mentioned/praised the Asianometry channel in one of their Nvidia episodes. Now Asianometry mentioning acquired, is making it full circle
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  289. From the first slide you can see that the former Czechoslovakia, if they would have stayed together, would export almost as many cars as the USA. Incredible.
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  290. I think a lot people (including me) thought it was about government policies that was near sighted from the title.
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  291. "for fear of entering the quantum realm" That was a good line
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  292. Was surprised that a lot was talked about on yield management without mentioning KLA, the toolmaker whose whole business is built on defect detection. Otherwise fantastic overview on what keeps TSMC at the top of the game.
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  293. Great video! I taught a course on Advanced Packaging a number of years ago and it's nice to see the industry moving towards MCM/Chiplet designs and, now, stacking of chips. Perhaps a future video can be done on passive vs active interposers?
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  294. I'm so glad Vietnam is now united and the fastest developing country in Asia. They really deserve an economic miracle like Korea, after everything they've been through.
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  295. Another issue is that Moore’s Law only applies to microchips. Some politicians act as if similar advances apply to solar cells or batteries.
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  296. Imagine the toys they get to play with...
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  297. Great video! Love from r/TSMC ❤️
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  298. The reason that he can't do any cigar butt strategy anymore is that his company is so large. By the very definition of a downtrodden firm, it would be so small as to not be meaningful to Buffett's huge balance sheet. He basically can only work with billion / trillion dollar firms as investments because all the small fries on the market wouldn't be meaningful to the whole return, even if their individual return was very good. Edit: Typed this before watching whole video - glad to see it covered.
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  299. This was an excellent (and impressively nuanced) overview of the Soviet economy. I was very impressed. Please make that video about Chinese views of the USSR.
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  300. Faith in the YouTube algo restored, brilliant channel.
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  301. As someone who works in the industry. You do a fantastic job 👏🏼
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  302. I had no idea about imec until this, and turns out they’re one of the most important organizations for modern technology.
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  303. Just watched this with the whole team, thanks for featuring this! 💎 And simply amazing how you condensed such a complex topic into 17mins!
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  304. Still constantly impressed at the speed with which you manage to put out these high-quality, well-researched mini-docs.
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  305. I also fantasize about open-source projects for CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and a few ASICs with at least one project in each category having a humongous contributor base so that people get good hardware without any IP fee (only manufacturing cost). There will be huge libraries so that anybody can make a custom chip for their application or simply pick the leading FPGA to program it to their needs. There are some big open-source projects like Linux and applications for Linux, ROS, OpenCV, some CAD software, etc. And Linux made Microsoft afraid when they were dependent on selling windows to earn money.
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  306. Again, stunning presentation and deep insight into difficulties from a technical aspect as well as commercialization. With a lot of the tech websites seeming to be circling the drain, its great to see in-depth analysis is not dead. I fully expect you to reach 1M subs and more in the coming year or two if you can keep this up. I'd rather see 1 every 2 weeks if it would help to prevent burnout. Would be interesting sometime to see an episode on what you think is a potential new technology that is possible in the near term.
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  307. As someone with little to no idea on how chips are made (it always seemed like magic to me) these videos have been quite informative, even for someone like me. I love them, keep up the good work!
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  308. I'm forever fascinated by the 'hidden hand' of government in cutting edge technology as evidenced by the DARPA spending on integrated circuits. Maybe an intriguing subject for a future Asianometry video?
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  309. As a US Vietnam vet I appreciate this update on the history of Vietnam. I'm glad that after years of colonial domination Vietnam is doing well.
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  310. It would be interesting if you look into the status of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, their culture was suppressed and forcefully assimilated during the years of the military dictatorship. I know some hardline conservatives who still see the Chinese as foreigners, despite being a part of the community for generations.
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  311. The complicity of analog design is worse when you include temperature sensitivities in the transistor and material performance. My old company (name withheld) included a Power On Rest circuit that gated power to internal logic so that it always started up in a known state. The circuit was updated in a routine design revision that passed all qualification tests across temperature and worked great in industrial grade applications, but came to a screaching halt when it was sold as an automotive product. Process variation of some lots allowed the temperature response of the POR to shift, locking the chip up when you turned it on in a narrow temperature window, A minor issue for a cell phone, but pretty painful if you are trying to unload VW's from a ship in the winter (the ECU wouldn't function). As you noted, analog design is an art, one where you have to know how all the paints mix and interact. Nice job on the presentation, I hope your father was able to retire happily.
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  312. Mirror, mirror in the machine, which of you is perfect and clean?
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  313. Grandpa in the 442nd: My Grandfather and several great-uncles served in the 442nd. My grandfather as a Corporal (w/ purple heart, bronze star) and eventually an MP, maybe attached to the artillery batillion- its not clear.) ...After going through the craziness of the Itialian campaign, France, etc, he saw DACHAU during its liberation. (can you imagine that? With his own family spending most of the war in 'camp', in places like Idaho?) He ended up guarding German POWs, at a former concentration/death camp (not sure which: he was a shutterbug, but the pics I have don't show exactly where, though I suspect it was Dachau, which was used for that purpose)... He was a guard, whole they were sorted into different classifications- draftees, officers, SS, war criminals, etc. Apperantly, He got along fairly well with a few of the POWS, and, as most were cleared of any war crimes, I think he may have identified with some of them as in: 'Well, ain't this FUBAR?', etc. (I'm paraphrasing). Anyway, when my mother was a teenager in the 60s, My grandfather owned a wholesale nursery (for trees/plants), and one afternoon, a stranger came to the door, asking for my grandfather by name. The visitor was a former German officer that was in town to sell machine tools (of course he was- what could be more German?), and had recalled that my grandfather, as a guard, had mentioned that he lived there. The German had brought a six-pack of German beer, and appearently they sat on the porch for a while and caught up, and then never saw one another again. It's a great story... according to my mother and uncle, it's true. My grandfather would never speak about his time in Europe (which is common, appearently), but, I suppose that those were significant moments in his life and for that German ex-soldier. So, wow, eh? I've been thinking about writing a history of the 442, using his life and experiences to personalize/ anchor the history. Anyway, that's my connection to the 442nd. (I have some relics- a camera he 'bought' in Italy, an alabaster statuette, some photo albums (Most of which have been donated to an Asian-American museum- the Wing Luke- in Seattle) -B (One more thing- as a shutterbug, he had a ton of photos of his friends in itally- short-ish Japanese men sitting/ dancing/ flirting with lots of tall, beautiful (recently liberated?) Itialian women. He DID talk about that, a few times... Grandpa was pretty cool.)
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  314. Veritasium made a video about the shadeballs a couple of years ago. Including interviews with one of the engineers who designed the shadeball. It was very interesting.
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  315. This is so cool! The first application I thought of was for one of my other interests: astronomy. The issue that large, ground-based telescopes face is that the atmosphere "smudges" the image they create with every bit of turbulence in the air. Nowadays the big fancy observatories get around this by using "adaptive optics", which are optical surfaces that can change shape thousands of times per second to perfectly counteract the distortion caused by turbulence. The whole system uses machine vision, and the calculations have to be done super fast (again, at least thousands of times per second), so (I think) it takes dedicated hardware to do it. But that's out of the price range for a lot of observatory projects. I remember reading a research paper that looked at consumer grade GPUs vs FPGAs to tackle the problem in a cheaper way, and I think they ended up performing kind of similarly. But making a cheap(er) ASIC for that exact task would be incredible! Who knows if that's still how the research stands, that was a few years ago that I read that paper, and I don't know when it was published. So it could be that modern GPUs are so performant that they are the best option. Who knows, but that's just what I thought of.
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  316. The Cambridge Museum of Technology has a exhibition on the history of Cambridge Instruments, including an early SEM
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  317. Your broad topic range is definitely my favorite part about this channel. From the economics of countries to genetic cloning to the hearing aid. Great work.
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  318. This is an outstanding presentation on CVD diamond. One of the first applications for large CVD diamonds, not mentioned in this video, was the manufacture of windows for aerospace applications, Diamond is transparent to light from infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths, and can be used as a protective, optical window for sensors on the front of missiles or aircraft that is the only suitable material able to withstand impact from rain at high speed.
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  319. I remember taking the bus from Singapore to Malaysia, and along the causeway were three large pipes. A local explained that two of those transported untreated water to Singapore. The third one returned some of the treated water back to the city of Johor in payment.
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  320. I've noticed that people who get really hung up on small, inconsequential details like VLSI tend to have severe emotional regulation issues. You're fine. Hope that guy gets some therapy. Maybe he can make a living doing research for YouTube channels.
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  321. Your comments about Von Neumann made me actually laugh out loud. "...probably while having breakfast or something" is something so accurate that can only be applied to von Neumann and Euler in my opinion
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  322. What do transistors and professional athletes have in common? They both get their strengths from doping
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  323. As a specialized supplier we also helped ASML develop its in house capabilities for similar processing. It was amazing how they would defer to us, yet still demand perfection. They were very willing to pay well for what they got.
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  324. Is there any chance you could do a whole video on the production of ingots and the slicing process? You've done so many videos on lithography where you've touched on it, but for those of use not well educated on the topic, the slicing of wafers seems like an almost magical process, so a 'deep dive' on it would be awesome.
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  325. Here in Peru most people knew about the existence of New Zealand because of the football intercontinental playoffs, but back in the 90's there was a milk brand from New Zealand called Anchor that had ads saying that the milk came from clean farms there, you still can find Anchor on some supermarkets here
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  326. We have two points of contact, on a good day. Our legs are pendula. Our ambulatory motion is essentially a constant form of falling forward. We rely on accelerometers inside our auditory canals. We shift our limbs, our superstructures, our very organs just to stay upright. We're a goddamn mess of an animal.
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  327. Incredible year for your channel. I became a fan at the beginning of 2022 and have been eagerly watching the videos as soon as they come out since. The content that you make is truly special. It's not an easy thing to create longer form, information dense videos in this time when attention is such a hot commodity, but of any educational channel, your's does it best. I want you to know that your videos have made a real impact on me, truly inspiring me to be a better, more informed person. I see the hard work that you've put in, and I'm very glad that it's been so rewarding for you. Much love from Toronto.
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  328. I need to wrap my head in duct tape to keep it from exploding.
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  329. A related fact: Japan is consistently the US’s largest or second largest market for corn specifically because wagyu eat a ton of it during their incredibly long finishing phase. The US and Canada have similar two-tiered production systems between cattle production farms and fattening farms but their finishing phase is more like 3-6 months whereas Japan’s is a multiple of that.
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  330. Diamond is used for the window through which plasma heating energy is injected into fusion reactors like ITER. This is because diamond is incredibly transparent over a huge range of frequencies, and the thermal conductivity is required to for cooling. They're also used for windows in other vacuum applications, of course, but pushing tens of megawatts through a 180mm diameter, 2mm thickness diamond window has to be the most amazing one. of course, these diamonds are polycrystalline, but still transparent. There's also a company making 100mm wafers of monocrystalline diamonds using a unique technology where the diamond isn't grown on a seed crystal, but on a Ir/YSZ/Si wafer. AuDiaTech in Germany. Supposedly the largest monocrystalline diamonds in the world.
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  331. The honor you show your parents is so wonderful
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  332. At this point retrieving magic fairy dust from the martian moon Phobos would probably be easier than the best alternative, if the martian moon Phobos had magic fairy dust.
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  333. Everybody in our engineering department, some in the maintenance, and a few managers are spending most of our time trying to improve yield in our product line. We sputter large 4x3 meter “objects”. A single defect can scrap a unit costing us several thousand dollars and all the wasted time. Since the line isn’t exactly screaming fast, this costs us millions. I am thankful that we have made great effort on this problem from many angles, including ones that I wouldn’t have thought of because we have a really talented team. I most recently finished a procedure for tracking down the cause of a single little scratch. Since the production line is over half a mile long, it was no small task. It took months to make a decent system so a future engineer will be able to make quick work of it. Tomorrow I will introduce new PLC software that will reduce processing times at one our bottleneck areas. I’m excited about that because my single software edit will save about $300-500k per year. We utilize chilled DI water for many processes, pure but not like the UPW in this video. Many places we use DIW for cooling high voltage electrical circuitry because pure water doesn’t conduct electricity, imagine that. In this video there is discussion about water purity to avoid sparking junctions on the wafer. I question how they prevent static charge build-up in the water itself.
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  334. Good overview. I left verification just after the Verilog revolution came to pass. We used hardware simulators at that point, with accelerated simulation. Sea-of-fpga emulation was not yet popular. The bottom line was that the company I worked for (nameless, but huge trust me) was new to hardware chip design. They had lots of money to buy toys, but had the idea that the tool would solve all. Thus the expectation was that the new, more expensive tool would relive them from the need to write test cases. I enjoyed being the one employee who understood the tools, but rapidly realized that it was a falling rock I had volunteered to sit under. I left the company soon after.
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  335. Man, the speed and consistency of your videos is amazing. Your's is one of the few channels that always puts out well researched videos that don't just sensationalize things for views. I checked your channel for a new video last night and knew that by the time I got up there would be a new one :)
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  336. Yay, thank you for this. I was always interested in the soviet union economy and nobody ever talked about it.
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  337. One correction, @11:30: "If that 450mm mirror was blown up to the size of the United States, 4500 km ... then 50 picometers would be just 0.4 micrometers." Actually, 0.5mm, which is pretty astonishing.
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  338. You do the best-narrated videos of all the channels i know. On the one hand you do really good, well-structured scripts to understandably explain complicated matters, without overly nested sentences and unnecessary technical jargon for example. And on the other hand you have a very pleasant way of talking, with a relaxed, not monotonous and not overly modulated voice, recording (at least) entire sentences at once (and by that always with the correct intonation), without cutting off the pauses (as so many others do these days), spoken in the right speed and by that giving the viewer enough time to process.
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  339. as someone who took wastewater civil courses in college, this seems like a no brainier to me
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  340. This channel constantly reminds me how much big-deal stuff exists that I had never even thought about thinking about. Great videos with amazing variety! Also you’ve uploaded so much recently dude omg like how did you make this much content my guy.
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  341. 6:29 Reminds me of the rocket launch industry. Funny how in that industry, Boeing has become a slow incompetent incumbent being the prime contractor for the multibillion dollar pork program: the SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy lift rocket, and the Starliner capsule. Though many argue that Boeing is also the incompetent incumbent even when it comes to passenger jets. See the failures in development of the now-grounded 737 MAX. Most see the turning point as when engineering-driven Boeing buying the finance-driven McDonnell Douglas. What ended up happening is all the finance management replaced the Boeing management. Which was great for the share price, bad for engineering and quality.
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  342. One of the areas of technology that gets far less attention than it deserves. Thanks for covering it.
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  343. One aspect of multi-national design is a continuous (24 hour) design cycle. Ideally designers grouped at 120 degrees longitude allows this for 8 hour workdays; USA, Europe, India. Keeps the $M CAD tools from idling. The CAD vendors sometimes prohibit this with geography-locked licensing. If you read the fine print, the license radius may be only a few hundred miles.
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  344. LOL! "I'm sorry Dave, the pod bay door have cold welded together."
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  345. The hydraulic backstory of early ASML is really fascinating. Little historical lessons like the chip manufactures rejecting ASML equipment make for powerful stories to understand and explain decisions you'll need to make in the future. Great video!
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  346. I started listening to you because of your semiconductor content, but i enjoy these historical episodes as much if not more.
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  347. I really appreciate the affection that Jon (Asianometry) has for the history of the industry, and relish for understanding the participants and personalities.
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  348. Thank you Asianometry, it is nice to see at least some YouTubers still aren't using AI voice models on there videos. It's getting pretty hard to detect now, "Scary interesting" as one example, but you can notice it if you pay attention to the emotional emphasis on how certain words are spoken in the context they are used. Keep up the great work!
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  349. I think Asianometry should follow his dreams and get a PhD in computer hardware specializing in semiconductor manufacturing lmao.
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  350. Yep exactly and there are people in the comments section that do not get that!
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  351. Most youtubers would be happy just to make a well researched video on a current topic but this dude writes a poem just for the hell of it. Truly a renaissance man
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  352. I'm simply amazed at the capacity you can do quality research, and on such a consistent and rapid rate. Incredible!
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  353. I’m pretty sure I’ve commented this before but I find it absolutely incredible how this channel doesn’t have hundred and thousands of subscribers, with the quality and the frequency of uploads is top tier.
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  354. I am a Peruvian water governance practitioner, and this is one of the best summaries of the peruavian and Lima water utility provision I have seen.
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  355. A note on the IJsselmeer part, the artificial lake only gets partially salty during periods of drought (ironic, since that's when it's needed the most) but is still good enough for irrigation during those few times that has happened in history, for the rest of the time it's even used for drinking water.
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  356. your explanation of hakka cuisine is spot on tbh... as a half hakka i grew up eating a lot of 梅菜 which is preserved, especially in dishes like 梅菜扣肉 (or khieu nyuk as we say it in hakka)... i chuckled a little at the "hakkas are known to be thrifty" stereotype because this is something i grew up hearing lol
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  357. Thank you for this video. I work for 30 years in the semicon industry in the Netherlands and I am in the web of a lot of the enterprises named in the video. I think it's great to show the world how this hightech network is organized and to show who does what. The semicon is the most interesting part of industry there is, imho.
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  358. Pakistan has no time to think on useless topics like depleting ground water, we are busy finding who will be new Army Chief :)
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  359. Yours is one of the most interesting channels on YouTube, I think. Tech, history, economics, geopolitics are all combined in a way that is digestible and sensible. As you pointed out, each new node generation is more expensive than the last. Demand for chips is only going up, but fewer and fewer companies can hang a shingle for the latest node. TSMC believes it can succeed at 3 nm. That will be difficult, in terms of expense, reject rates and reliability. Such a small node leaves chips vulnerable to stray electromagnetic radiation and cross-channel electron bleeding. And after 3 nm? Photo-etching on 2-D silicon is nearly at the end of its journey. If Moore's Law is to continue, a new chip concept will be required, and sooner rather than later, a concept that leaves plenty of room for future advances. It would be good if it were cheap, too, so that many companies can jump in and compete for rising demand. We need innovation! Who will supply it? And what will it look like? I have no idea. In principle, different semiconductors (beyond silicon) might come into play. I'm not sure how far that will extend the runway for 2-D optically-etched chips. Might not be very far at all. In principle, moving to 3-D designs etched by some method other than projecting an image onto a 2-dimensional surface might be tried (but I can't imagine what that etching process might look like). In principle, quantum computing might change everything - though a complete, economically-viable, better-than-silicon solution remains far in the future, at best. At worst, quantum computing will be a niche adjunct to silicon processing. Or at really worst, nothing from quantum computing will arrive at commercial viability at all. Photonic computing? Who knows. The irony is that matter appears to be compute-intensive. Everything computes. We just don't know how to take advantage.
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  360. Used to love National Semiconductor products. They had great app notes and data books. And Bob Pease was a legend.
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  361. This is one of my favourite documentary channels on YouTube lately, thanks for all your hard work 👍 👏 🙏
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  362. every single vid you make is an absolute banger. Id love for you to produce one on the back story and explanation of the tech in quantom dot. thanks for all the work you put into these
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  363. This reminds me of a scene from ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ where a Hewlett-Packard manager asks a young Steve Wozniak, “What would ordinary people want with a computer?”
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  364. Man, I feel like this channel is sending me deeper into a microprocessor rabbit hole with each video. First I learn about all the crazy stuff on the bleeding edge that firms like TSMC are doing, then I find out that they can only do what they do because of lithography devices that ASML builds, and now I'm being taken to the next level learning that ASML can only build those ,machines by integrating devices from IMEC, Zeiss, etc. Now I'm wondering how deep this information hole goes?
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  365. DO NOT BURN OUT. You're obviously close to it. Go down to one video a week, right now. Your fans will stick with you and respect you for looking after yourself.
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  366. I was in charge of software maintenance while Seymour was still the leader of Cray Research .. All the wires in the Cray were blue/white and the ladies that wired the system had to know exactly from and to for the connections ... it was mind-blowing how fast they were. Hardware people including engineers HATED software programmers ...
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  367. Chen Tang-hua(陳棠華) was my grade school and middle school class mate, also at Taida where he majored in Chemistry and I in Civil Engineering. We met a few times while in college, but never met again while studying in the US. I learned of his passing only a few years after hearing his venture in China. It was really sad to hear his passing at such relative young age and at the zenith of his career. God bless!!!
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  368. Initially, FPGA's were not a serious threat to LSI's gate-arrays/standard-cell designs because the per-unit cost of the FPGA devices were very high by comparison, and the turnaround time for gate arrays was very fast. When I was an LSI customer in the early 1990s (at Intel), I got silicon back in 8 days (gate array), and 17 days (standard cell with 3 metal layers). ASIC costs were quite low, too. Gate-array NRE charges were around $10K for the LMA100K designs I did in 1 micron, and I think the LCB007 standard cell which was around 0.7 micron were around $35K. From there, you went into production at costs well below $20 per chip and that was way less than FPGAs. Now, as process technology advanced, the number of masks increased and the costs exploded. NRE costs for 0.18 microns (LSI's G11 process) was $250K and up. At the same time, FPGA costs were coming down as the number of available gates continued to increase, so LSI got squeezed at both ends: Better-faster-cheaper FPGAs luring customers away from the low-end, and the high-cost of taping-out designs at the high end. I just retired from the chip industry last year. When I started in 1985, I literally did the entire design myself (architecture, design, simulation, debug, layout, timing analysis, test vectors, etc). Today, you have an army of engineers working on chips, and we only get to work on small bits of the design.
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  369. I'd love to hear more about how Louis Vuitton in particular went on to cater to men in China, my gut feeling says their products are bought as gifts and it was consumers who sought the brand, not so much the brand adapting to them.
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  370. Glad to see we're finally getting Asianometry's origin story.
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  371. Im Hakka from Bali Island, Indonesia
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  372. Excited for this video. Semiconductors were once big business in Singapore and heavily backed by the government. Unfortunately, their failure has been kept low profile and I as a kid never got answers as to why it didn't work out.
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  373. Brilliant as ever.
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  374. This sets up an interesting game theory situation.... if a company really wanted 450 they'd have to make huge firm orders from suppliers to get them to tool up; but then after the suppliers have tooled up then they're free to sell to other companies, who get a free ride (or a relatively cheaper ride at least). Demand for chips is relatively price-insensitive, so it would make sense for the industry to get together and agree "let's just not". Antitrust laws prohibit those kinds of agreements, but the law can't force companies to get together and agree on standards. I wonder if some companies were trying that with the 725 vs 735 um controversy last time around. (I have absolutely no idea about chipmaking, but is there any reason to feel strongly about 725 vs 735?)
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  375. This story struck a cord with me since I have been working on this stuff for 20 years. You nailed it. Just like our eyes and brains, the electronic cameras are starting to utilize all the light that is hitting the phone at any given moment. In the past, cameras just take a momentary sample of the light. But human eyes are doing it constantly...we don't have shutters in our eyes. I love where photography has gone and is going.
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  376. Wake me up when they can actually commercialize graphene
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  377. I just found out I have ALS and I want you to know. You are one of the reasons I have to keep living. I love your content so much. Thanks for all you do here.
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  378. Before you explained the source of Urea in Intel's water my thoughts went to "a disgruntled janitor pissed into the ultra-pure water tank." That would have been A STORY.
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  379. This guy has never stopped from impressing us with his immense knowledge about history of the digital and computing revolution that each country had played a role in. Personally, Despite my vast knowledge on this subject, I have never stopped from exploring new interesting knowledge on this amazing channel 🙂😀🙂
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  380. Excellent! When you are bored, would you consider putting out a video on AMD's join venture with China and China's Hygon CPU? Or, more broadly, consider to make a video on China's adventure in x86 CPUs, including the development of ZhaoXin as well?
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  381. Very good. I was a master's student in electrical engineering at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in the early 1980s. The place was abuzz with VLSI, although outside my research area. I was surprised how students could design their own chips and have them made. The video explains what was happening then. A very exciting time. My own research was much more pedestrian but unique in the world, microcomputer control of controlled atmosphere apple stores. It is now used internationally as adaptive control of fruit and vegetable storage, where the controller monitors the response of the fruit itself, to dynamically and adaptively adjust storage conditions to give longer storage and reduce postharvest chemicals. Previously storage conditions were static.
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  382. I worked for Control Data in 1970, fresh out of University. I was smart in school but at Control Data I felt like being at the bottom of the ladder. There were a lot of genius people working there. Some were super passionate working 7 days a week, day and night.
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  383. “ This guy is obsessed with TSMC “joke is gold🤣
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  384. There are literally billions of SQL databases in this world, yet very few people knew where or how it got started until now. Thanks again, Jon.
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  385. Another great video, well researched and presented, and I learned the background relations of TSMC and UMC. Thank you for all the work and then sharing.
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  386. Love your videos! You are the only channel on YouTube that goes into the details of chip manufacturing and you also explain the information in an entertaining way. Keep up the good work.
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  387. "Go Study Manhattan project" is best comment any Japanese can say
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  388. Really like all your stuff (especially this one since I just started my apprenticeship at Siemens) but I think you made a small mistake. The "Bundesbank" is the German central bank responsible for issuing currency, while the "deutsche Post" is comparable to US postal service and was (and to a degree still is) responsible for communications infrastructure in Germany. But all that aside, I really enjoy watching your videos. I really love how the kind of give an outside view to things happening here in Europe. Keep on the good work 👏
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  389. I am still gutted how far away the Tainan HSR station is from everything. The connection in XinShi would've been perfect for all TSMC workers and would give everyone a much faster connection to the city. I guess the frustration come from living near the park too.
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  390. An excellent introduction to the operation of the Great Firewall of China, a major component in China's broader internet censorship system called the "Golden Shield Project". Great work! I hope more people signup to your excellent early-access tier on Patreon. I think this channel is going places!
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  391. "Even being charitable with the trend, a Hyper-NA EUV machine can cost over half a billion dollars. That is about the cost of 1 Barcelona contract with Messi." This satire, unbelievable. Messi's contract costs are completely ridiculous. Keep up your work, it is fascinating.
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  392. As a newish developer, of all videos, this was the most exciting to see when I saw the thumbnail. SQL has become one the foundational blocks of software development and even today, when all the competing NoSQL paradigms (MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, etc) have claimed a space in database management, we are coming back to SQL with new ideas thanks to PostgreSQL and SQLite related projects like Turso and libSQL. And I really like the image in 14:50 while distant in time is so relatable to my knowledge. A testament on how SQL stood the test of time and won. Really thanks Jon for this video.
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  393. Well done! There is also a large ongoing exodus of expats from many of those high paying services jobs due to industry consolidation, more employee localization, increased geopolitical tensions, seemingly never ending COVID restrictions, and much more. It is sad. My family left HK after more than 12 wonderful years on the island. Much love to those that remain.
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  394. It's true. If you want to work in the semi, never work in FAB! Always on call, that's actually not the worst. The worst is that those damn machines will always break down at the worst moment (midnight, during vacation, or anytime that is not convenient to you), and you have to be able to get yourself ready at those moments. It will seldom break down at regular business hours.
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  395. If viewers liked this video I recommend this channel's "TSMC - Essays" playlist.
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  396. Damn wish you gets more views cuz these videos are fire. Way better than other “stock analysts” videos out here.
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  397. I miss Sun. I still have a couple SPARCstations sitting in the spare bedroom, a SPARC 20 and an Ultra 5. I haven't powered them up in years, though. I was given the 20 and I bought the Ultra 5 new, way back in the 1990s. They, and the IPC and IPX I used to have, made a nice little home network.
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  398. I don't want to know how much effort it was to put all this information together. Thanks and thumbs up. P.S.: At Nvidia they are insane. Just try to find out which GPU you have and how it compares to others or if they are CUDA capable ..... You will end up digging through lists of hundreds or thousands of cards.
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  399. I worked for two summers in 🇹🇼 Taiwan, it was so unbearably hot that I would plot my route along 7-11's, stopping in the cool air-conditioned stores to survive, buying snacks to be courteous, favorites included papya milk, sweet bread, tea eggs
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  400. I love that the volume is so much louder (more normal) in recent videos. Not a fan of ASMR narration. The content is outstanding as usual.
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  401. So many obscure and interesting topics that I'd never heard of have been introduced to me by your videos. I'm studying my master's in computer science currently, I adore your videos that intersect with the field. Keep up the brilliant work!
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  402. Moravec's paradox highlights the inherent challenges robots face in performing tasks that come naturally to humans, due to their limited sensory and flexibility capabilities. In essence, we are asking robots to carry a plate with only a hammer at their disposal. To enable more adaptable robots, it is crucial to invest in enhancing their sensory input and flexibility, allowing them to better mimic human complexity and versatility.
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  403. As a studying Electrical Engineer the context this brings to my studies is beyond words. Thank you for the work and love you put into these videos.
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  404. Just a little correction, in this context, "società" translates to "company", not "society". Good video.
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  405. Hi, really enjoyed your videos. Could you explore doing a case study video on Singapore's semiconductor history and why it did not succeed?
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  406. wow, I learned a lot from this video. I never heard of most of these people. Even though my family is from Taiwan, I've never heard of any of them talking about these TSMC super stars
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  407. "Intel dances alone." This is what keeps Pat Gelsinger up at night. Intel's struggle for fab acceptance by the industry at large, and training techs to work independent of the design teams
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  408. Good vid. It seems camera sensors themselves haven't improved greatly in the last few years. Or at least not nearly at the pace they were previously. For example, a great low light camera, the Sony A7SII to A7SIII did not see a huge improvement in low light performance despite a five year gap between releases. Maybe I am expecting too high a pace of improvement for digital sensors and they won't ever be able to compete with image intensifier tubes. For dedicated cameras I understand wanting personal control rather than computer control for taking shots but I do hope the big manufactures begin taking more advantage of computational photography in areas where a photographer can't easily improve it by manual controls- low light, star tracking, focus stacking.
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  409. Only from Asianometry would I not have expected the answer to be "cuz Socialism, 'Murica won yeeeeehaaaaw". Good job!
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  410. I'm really enjoying your videos. The Sino-Soviet split is hardly talked about in history education or the media. I also appreciate your effort to stay impartial.
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  411. This video conclusion truly emphasises what Malaysia's Semiconductor Industry faced. Anyway, Khazanah Berhad has sold Silterra to Dagang NeXchange Bhd (DNeX) and a Chinese firm for RM273mil (66m USD). Yet this sells off deemed too cheap with current high semiconductor demand and billions of Ringgit spend to Silterra over a decade. Well, Malaysia's may stay in the IDM market for the next decade. The will, money and politics, just doesn't align to Malaysia to build and become cutting edge pure foundry.
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  412. As a venezuelan this video is both fascinating and incredible frustrating.
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  413. Well we were using small particle accelerators in old TV's. So there is nothing really weird about it.
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  414. From Silicon Photonics, High-NA EUV to Soviet computer industry, Chinese control of rare earths and now zippers… You’re interests are 100% EPIC and I love them all!!! 😂❤
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  415. I worked at LSI Logic/LSI/Avago for 17 years, from 1997 to 2014. It was interesting to hear some of the company history from before I joined.
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  416. A 15 minute video about Taiwans convenience stores narrated with a somewhat monotone voice and its still one of the most interesting things I have watched this week on youtube. I don't know what makes this formula work but its certainly amazing. I am always happy to click on these!
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  417. While your focus is Asia, I would be very keen to see a video like this on Russia post-1991. My understanding is that there was the rapid dismantling of the prior economic and political systems on the advice of the West to introduce market capitalism. This failed dismally with oligarchs grabbing key resources. However, the failed state has continued to this day and has even deteriorated with the current war. Apparently, there is a Russian saying; "that things will only get worse".
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  418. Take a look at DEC.
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  419. Really interesting and not too niche for me at least. I remember when SAW filters suddenly became common in TV IF stages - ISTR it was not so much about performance as cost. They replaced several LC circuits which all needed to be hand-tuned in production, saving on parts cost, board size and manufacturing time. The IF stage became small enough to fit inside the tuner can, avoiding the need to have additional shielding for a separate IF stage.
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  420. "Peter Jackson ... is most well known for his work on [proceeds to mention three things I've literally never heard of, and not Lord of the Rings]" me: is, uh, is there a different peter jackson in the business or did Asianometry put a joke into a video finally?
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  421. I took my kids to visit Taiwan back in 2013. It was nice to see Taiwanese snacks in a 7-11, wish I could get those in the US :)
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  422. I work in a outsourced supplier in the automotive sector. Specifically, a stamping plant manufacturing seat belt components. As I've learned about the way the automotive industry works, I see large parallels between how auto manufacturers work and how ASML works. You also did an excellent job in clearly communicating that structure without using diagrams or anything. It's quite fascinating to get all these details.
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  423. I’m somehow amazed at 10,000 calculations per second while watching this video on a phone with a 5nm soc with 15 billion transistors.
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  424. after watching Nakamura LED discovery, compare to Nichia, AT&T seems like a good company not only promoting Shockly, Brattain, and Bardeen but also give them a credit as a leader in theory of transistor and semiconductor
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  425. I remember that DRAM shortage. It came when the transition from 256K to 1Mb, was about to occur. Those dates shown, was when chip was designed, not when it was widely distributed. That was ~2yr lag. Yep, 2nd half of 1988. DRAM prices skyrocketed, and stayed high for the next 2 years.
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  426. The story of the fall of Hanjin might be interesting for a future video?
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  427. What a marvelous information and the True story about all the real semiconductor industry failure in Singapore history.
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  428. not to the same extent, but my people (Finnish) also have horrible hereditary retinal diseases. my grandmother battled with RP for decades before inevitably going legally blind in her senior years. it's scary growing up knowing how high the chances are that you may have some sort of terrible eye degeneration in your future. my best wishes to the chinese people with this struggle.
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  429. I do like that you cover other topics than just semi-conductors and electronics. Even though I love those videos. But here one can learn about the subject that they never even thought they would be interested in.
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  430. 9:26 "I can't find an explanation for how [insert ML tool works], but I CAN find how they train it" As an ML scientist, this is close to 90% of how it is. The area where it's gets a lot more analytical is transfer learning, and a huge chunk of reinforcement learning. While we know what goes into training the neural nets, the developed black box intuition is as close as it can get to modern magicry.
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  431. Always wondered what happened. My mom’s family is from a town an hour out and we always landed in Iligan from Cebu by ship en route. What happened to Iligan is like what happened to Detroit or Manchester, industrial cities that decayed and became crime ridden.
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  432. I can't express my love for the diversity of presented topics it keeps things fresh.
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  433. I'm glad you could visit us. Thanks for all your work explaining the industry! 💙🙂
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  434. There was a period of time IMEC was investigating direct maskless lithography from such companies as Mapper Lithography BV (Netherlands) and KLA corporation (REBL). When ASMLs lithography proved to be viable, mapper for example lost all market share. A sister company is all that remains of them, Mapper LLC (RU).
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  435. Wow, we don't see quality like this in YouTube. One of the best.
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  436. Could you do a review on Applied Materials too? Thanks!
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  437. Superbly interesting video. For once in my life, I learn that LOITERING has a purpose too. LOL
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  438. One of the things I like most about the Semiconductor industry is how everything is so directly named. “What is Metal Interlayer bonding?”Well it’s the previously discussed method of bonding but this time…. wait for it ….. it has a metal layer in between the two bits we’re bonding.😂
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  439. Wow, this is the best analysis of ASML. I've seen on YouTube! Keep up the fantastic work!!
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  440. We need more videos on machines like this. You do a great job of making them
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  441. Great point. And the tiny resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc that go into the boards are also in short supply with backlogs of >12+ months.
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  442. Wang was a pivotal system at my bank employer in the early 1980s, before being surpassed by the whole networked IBM PC environment in the mid-80's. WANG Basic was very well implemented, and it ran DBase II as the foundation for some early custom analytical tools. Thanks for the very interesting and detailed analysis!
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  443. Great video and very well researched, as always! Note that the name "Field Programmable Gate Array" was meant to invoke familiarity with "Gate Array" (called that in the US, known as ULA, Uncommitted Logic Array, in the UK) which was a chip that had the same logic for all clients except for the metal layer, which was different for each one. Most Gate Arrays used simple NAND gates as their basic element and there was one FPGA that tried that, but it was really smart to have a larger basic block such as a four input lookup table. And with fixed wiring the FPGAs had to add as many transistors to route signals as in the basic blocks.
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  444. As someone who's family is half Thai I'd wager geography, urbanization, cultural ties, and price are all big contributors: Thailand is located near the South China Sea which has one of the most valuable shipping corridors on Earth with trade passing between Africa, Europe, India, East Asia, and the Western half of the Americas, plus Thailand is only a short distance from China and Vietnam, both large manufactures of Automobile parts. They're near Japan and South Korea, both major manufacturers. This means its easier to ship parts in and vehicles out and also means they're likely to farm out very labor intensive tasks to nearby Thailand. Thailand is also a highly urbanized country with a massive 14 million people (over 20% of the country) living in the Bangkok metro zone which is also right on the water allowing easy importing and exporting of goods, and a highly urbanized population also means much easier manufacturing and having most of the country in 1 giant city means its easy to have multiple different companies making and assembling parts, sections, or entire vehicles. You dont need to make the chassis in Chicago, the engine in Houston, and send them to Detroit for assembly, you can keep different jobs in one city if it has most of the population there. That city also being a massive port on a massive shipping lane makes things even easier. Urbanized populations are also more well educated then more rural ones making things easier. Thailand also has very close ties to the US and they have close business/trading ties to China, South Korea, and Japan. This makes it even easier to get contracts to assemble vehicles for them or manufacture parts. The fact Thailand has close ties to China and the US also means they have large markets to sell to as well as import parts from. The cultural ties also means that there are more personal relationships and business is easier, plus tons of Thai people speak English or Chinese as a second language which makes doing business even more attractive. Another important factor is that costs are low in Thailand. Thanks to the shipping lanes transport costs are low, their location near resources like Chinese or Australian coal, locally made rubber, oil from the South China Sea, and Chinese and Japanese steel means resources are cheap as well. The fact that cost of living is very low and wages are also fairly low means that its cheap to do business in Thailand. Countries like South Korea and Japan can hire fairly well educated Thai people to do jobs for much less then doing it locally, and they have the benefits i already mentioned rolled in. They dont need to go to Africa where wages are low but geography makes business more difficult and where politics makes things less stable. A less important, but still important factor is also stability. Thailand despite all their coups is still fairly stable for doing business. New regimes dont like to "rock the boat" or institute wide ranging changes to society. The new regimes arent revolutionary and they dont want to radically change the countries allegiances or become isolated. New regimes usually just want to be the new leaders of the same basic government, they keep doing business with the same nations, keep local business going as normal, they dont try to nationalize tons of companies or force out certain businesses, and they dont demand radical changes to existing contracts or relationships. They also try to keep corruption manageable as well and try to keep Thailand an attractive trading partner. Compare this to some Arab or African nations where new regimes institute massive changes to their relationships or try to nationalize tons of business, or compare it to communist and socialist revolutionaries where the new regime seizes control of businesses and radically change society. Unpredictable politics like that make doing business less attractive and in complicated, global, heavily integrated industries like automotive
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  445. Civil comment: I still wish solar were much cheaper.....doesn’t make financial sense for my house and power costs.
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  446. Our education system needs massive reforms, it's just 4 wheels now but it needs to be a racing car.
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  447. It's a good intro, a lot more could be said about the power of high end brands: the best of the best in the mind of its consumers, the more expensive the better; while the world is used to equating "Chinese" with "cheap and poorly made", high end Chinese consumers themselves will insist on "Fabriqué en France"; which is why I cringed when I heard about McKinsey optimizing production.
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  448. Your video essays are consistently some of the highest quality videos on youtube right now and having a new one show up always brightens my day. Thank you!
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  449. Contrary to the majority of viewers who preferred videos unrelated to semiconductors, I was initially drawn to this channel because of its in-depth coverage of EUV lithography, and the other topics were a bonus. I hope to see more content on semiconductors, although every video you produce is very well researched and summarized. Here's to a good 2023.
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  450. It would be interesting if PDKs were made to follow a certain standard. Like XML or what have you. That way the "big professional stuff" and the open source stuff would be able to work with the leading edge nodes provided you're in the good graces of the leading foundries.
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  451. Jon, I truly enjoy your briefings. They are so well done and quickly cover issues that I'm curious about but don't want to spend days researching. Thanks!
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  452. I am a supporter of the free market and the general principles of comparative advantage (eg, not every country needs to build their own cars), so its interesting when the government of a country like Taiwan kickstarts a semiconductor industry (see Asianometry's video "How Taiwan Created TSMC") and ends up succeeding so much it doesn't just no longer require state subsidies but dominates the industry globally.
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  453. Been watching for a bit now and your quality of storytelling matches the big informational channels-you’ll be one of them soon. I hope for your physical wellbeing you can hire a dedicated editor or some sort of helper to reduce the workload/stress your current schedule gives. Here’s to an exciting new year. Much love from America’s Dairyland.
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  454. Great video man. Fascinating subject matter and sometimes nothing really beats a boots on the ground view of things as opposed to talking about everything in abstractions and numbers and technical figures. Great to see what a TSMC Gigafab actually looks and feels like.
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  455. DARN IT, I checked Amazon and the Twinscan NXE 3600D is not available!!! LOVE YOUR WORK!!!
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  456. You say that your mom says you would be good to fall asleep to—I’m reminded of one of my absolute favorite classes in college (number theory), where I loved the material, taught by a great and engaging professor, and passed out in class several times. You cover interesting topics with a smooth and relaxed delivery, perfect to unwind to, so consider it a compliment 😎
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  457. Semiconductor is one of the most competitive industries in the world. The only good reason for a country to enter into this market is for being independent from other countries and control their supply chain, not for profit.
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  458. Man, what a walk down memory lane. My first experience with computers was using a terminal to log into a mainframe just to play Star Trek. Sun was always in the background somewhere over the next decades. So many companies have crashed and burned.
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  459. Good old Tim Apple lol
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  460. Dude, this channel grows on me more and more every episode. Really like your topic choices! Becoming an instant watch pretty quickly with me. Thanks!
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  461. What works best now isn't necessarily what will work best five years from now, and I hope Netflix has the sense to diversify their new content and avoid painting themselves into a corner and end up hemoraging subscribers down the line because people start to get tired of "second screen content". Even with all the data in the world, I think it's hard to capture how people feel about their subscription to a streaming service and when/why they will leave. New user acquisition is important, but there are only so many users in the world, so I hope retention will become a bigger priority for them.
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  462. Funny, I had a lecture today in university about solar panels and I wondered how solar silicon wafers are made compared to silicon wafers for leading edge lithography use. And now you uploaded this video.
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  463. Since it’s the go-to foundry TSMC benefits from the R&D spending across the whole ecosystem. This allows them to spend less on R&D than other semiconductor firms.
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  464. This explains why so many Taiwanese are of Sichuanese descent, I was born in China Yunnan and came to NZ when I was 4 and I met a few Taiwanese who said their grandparents came from Sichuan it was very interesting. Also recently just 2 years back I went on a guided tour of NZ's South Island with my Mother and the Tour guide was Sichuanese but was from Taiwan along with another man we met who moved to the USA in the 90s from Taiwan whom was also of Sichuanese descent. Also some people in Taiwan still speak Sichuanhua around Taichung and I had a few conversations with them in Yunnanese and we could communicate.
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  465. Considering the importance of computers in everyone's lives and work today, this stuff should be taught in school, in history classes. Great video, as usual, thank you !
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  466. Sometimes I sit here and think to myself ..man he's feeding us all this information Imagine who feeds him information...like it's very impressive that he's able to get or find this information not to mention the detailed pics...has he done a Q and A? If not he should soon
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  467. Fairchild still has production in the Philippines along with Amkor, Toshiba, Sanyo, ON, Cypress, ROHM, Triquint. Texas Instrument. I hope you can feature the semicon industry in the Philippines as well.
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  468. An episode about RISC-V would be interesting.
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  469. FPGA are cool and especially for real-time inference with minimal latency. Azure provides FPGA accelerator for certain types of models. Even though I've studied FPGA, I didn't know about the history. A video about Verilog would be cool.
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  470. Thanks Jon... Being a "systems" type (been using computers since my original 8088), my mind is blown by the complexity and organization that make something that will alter the course of history. Thanks for sharing your visit to ASML with us! PS 'hardware leads software'
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  471. I love your semiconductor industry analysis....no one else does it!
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  472. No matter the topic, your videos are always top notch, totally engaging, and to the point. Your delivery is really, really good, and the material is well-researched and, while presented in a matter of fact manner, is so totally listenable! And we love when you sneak in the occasional well placed, tongue-in-cheek comment. Keep up the outstanding work.
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  473. A video exploring that mandatory retirement in their 50s might be interesting
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  474. Love these educational journeys
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  475. First off, thank you for your hard work and cogent perspectives from your part of the world. I feel like this is missing a second half, since when covid hit, auto companies began slowing or canceling orders. This led the chip manufacturers to close their least profitable and older chip production lines, and ramp up their more profitable lines to supply companies who did not cancel orders, like Tesla, BYD, and other Chinese EV manufacturers. This is also happening when there is a major shift in automotive computer architecture, as separate control units supplied by parts manufacturers with their component systems are being brought in house, and are using fewer more centralized controllers to connect to many different systems. Since the chip manufacturers need at least a decade of sales to pay for chip design and production development, they are reluctant to risk making new lines for legacy systems that they do not see a future for. Many of the old lines that were closed had parts cannibalized to increase production for consumer electronics sold during lock-down, and these production lines are unlikely to be restarted. P.S. I believe that you were slightly off with the first electronics in cars, as the magneto and spark systems were the first, like pull start lawn mowers.
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  476. What a hell of work you must have put into this historical research. Not forgetting the 'Ndrangheta and Mafia threat to every public figures in Italy in the 80's.
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  477. Another excellent video. On a side note. I was born in 81 in China when the policy was not yet (fully) in effect in the city I was born in. Later, when my parent had to get my birth certificate for changing nationality they were still fined for having me. Better taking the fine than abort me (16 years old at that time😬)
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  478. Are you planning on covering Gigabyte Technologies? They make great computer motherboards, just like ASUS. And do manufacturing in Taiwan too!
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  479. I'm glad that even as your channel grows you're continuing to make random history videos that interest you, even though they tend to get fewer views compared to the other topics you cover
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  480. The lack of emotion in your presentations is really appreciated. I don’t feel the need to apply criticism or read between the lines and you sound level-headed. You don’t spare any details. Even when I sometimes disagree with the information presented, I can’t help but also appreciate that you don’t incessantly hamfist your worldview in your videos. 👍
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  481. I have visited several Packaging plants in Malaysia between 2008-2010 and met many hard working intelligent people there. I was told engineering students at the time were somewhat hindered due to Malay language being prioritized over English at university in the 2000s. When intel expanded its packaging operations in the 2010s, it went to Vietnam. Interest to note Fairchild has packaging in both Penang and Tijuana Mexico.
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  482. I would like to recommend a view in the LED chip production, as it turned mostly away from Europe to (South East) Asia.
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  483. And this is why us Kiwis pay through the nose for Dairy… Im glad there are so many other countries that get to enjoy our Dairy - it costs so much here its getting to the point where buying a block of cheese is a luxury… Thanks, Fonterra - good on you, mate 👍🏼
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  484. Thanks! You have a gift for making the potentially mundane ....entertaining. More of these would be welcome 😊
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  485. Coincidentally the UK’s General Electric also fell apart. Check out the history of GEC (General Electric Company) for a similar story
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  486. I find the Asianometry topics of choice for video exposition are uncannily aligned with my own interests. I followed the trials and lead up to approval of this compound very closely when it happened a decade ago. Also, I recall Kalydeco (ivacaftor), the cure for a very specific type of cystic fibrosis, was also of particularly intense fascination and wonder what the long term status of the treatment's efficacy is today.
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  487. At the time of the ban on eating beef, Buddhists in Japan had a level of power similar to the chokehold the Catholics once had on Europe. This was probably a method of exclusion against foreign powers. You should do a video on that some time.
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  488. If anybody wants a 15 minute firehose of information about China's older Long March (Chang Zheng) series of rockets, I highly recommend checking out Scott Manley's video titled "Every Chinese Rocket Design Explained!"
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  489. Honestly one of the best explanation of spin I’ve seen.
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  490. The stuff inside optical chips is kind of insane. So much simulation and math is used to refractivly bend light with tactically placed blocks of different refractivity in the nano scale. Just insanity
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  491. The key word here is, "art." I'm serious. Some decent (but still relatively small) percentage of people can, "learn to code," but only a very small number of them can become functional artists.
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  492. Hearing the story of Moores Law, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy: We wouldn’t have current level of tech, without the ambitions of Moores Law.
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  493. I'm Taiwanese and this company was famous when I was a kid. We were poor af so there are a ton of startups like this that grew big, some of them are nice while others are basically sweatshops. Most usually employ a large amount of low wage workers from Southeast Asia nowadays to keep the cost low because domestic people don't want to work there anymore. the cycle continues.
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  494. I love the obsession with TSMC though :D
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  495. This was a great video and very well researched. One little detail is that "GDS II" is "graphic design system two", though given the popular "ASCII = ASK 2" joke it is natural to err on the other side.
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  496. Crazy to think how primitive all these robots are - the first ones are barely 30 years old and were made in the lifetime of most viewers. I imagine this is kind of what airplanes felt like in the 1920’s. If history is any guide, these aquatic drones are going to get A LOT better in the next 10-20 years.
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  497. Very cool video, I was not expecting such a subject to be tackled on this channel. For anyone else who might have been pleasantly surprised by how interesting this video was, I can suggest the channel Practical Engineering. The host Grady offers some very interesting material about everything concerning our constructed environment.
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  498. Great video as usual! I’ve been wondering, how do you produce so many videos so quickly? I’m always surprised to see highly researched content put out so frequently, on a variety of topics no less. I hope you won’t get burned out!
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  499. Sir, what you're putting on YouTube is absolute gold, hands down you're one of my favourite channel on YouTube. The quality of your content is amazing. 👌
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  500. My father, a Kibei, spent the war in DC working for the OSS estimating what the GNP of Japan would be after the war. My mother was in Manzanar camp and then in DC at the OSS also. But most of their friends fought in the war. When I was a child, one of his cronies from Hawaii brought me from Hawaii to Taipei to my parents. On the way he told me some amazing stories. He was in Burma tapping phone lines for Merrils' Mauraders, and later was sent to Yunan to translate Japanese communications. On his 18th birthday, Mao and Chou En Lai attended; probably he is the only american who can say that. Later when Nixon went to China he was remembered and invited. The war created some incredible challenges but also some amazing experiences and opportunties for these Nisei.
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  501. My grandparents are hakka, they migrated to Thailand. I had listen about china a lot in childhood from her. Wish i can go there in someday.
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  502. I feel real bad about myself now. I'm only working the day shift and getting a master's degree. I have no clue how I would attempt a phd
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  503. Another exceptional video, with excellent dictation. Your mastery of English is better than most native English speakers. Keep doing what you do in your style, its very much appreciated. Thank you.
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  504. I'm a retired Photolithe Equipment Engineer. Started out with Canon USA on the PLA501 in the late 70's and retired when ST closed their American fabs (and moved processes to Singapore and Russia). I was the Photo Equipment Manager for ST in Texas. Before that I worked for SVGL on the MicraScan series of tools. I did a short gig for TriQuint on a process transfer from Oregon to Texas and retired when that product fell through. Thanks for a great insight into how the industry that I made a good living in has progressed. Money is a little tight now so I can't subscribe yet but will try to in the future.
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  505. Very good as always. I admire how you are able to research and produce these high-quality videos each week. I am a retired business academic and would have loved having these videos available for when I was teaching in the MBA or for my own research.
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  506. These videos are so consistently well made, it's always a pleasure. Keep it up!
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  507. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore are all much higher income countries which is normal for lower birth rates so don’t think Confucius ideology has anything to do with it. China is one of few country that will grow old before getting rich (per capital basis).
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  508. Taiwan's mountains are the highest east of Himalayas and probably south of Russia, higher than Japan's alps. It definitely gets cold at high-altitude taiwan
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  509. Superb. Never knew this aspect of Russian recent past. Thank you
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  510. Interesting that two of TSMC's biggest customers: Jensen Huang and Lisa Su are both from Tainan :D
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  511. These videos are fascinating.
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  512. Humans being The Real Minimum Viable Product at an AI conference, I see what you did there 😎
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  513. Thanks for all the work you put into creating these videos. There aren’t many channels that tell these stories in such depth.
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  514. Hi Jon, have you ever thought on doing a spin-off channel? Europometry or something like that? I'd be interested in helping with the script!
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  515. Jon, thank you for all your work, I have enjoyed your productions for more than 2 years now and have always been impressed with your research - I hope to keep enjoying your work and I hope it is worth it to your bank account.
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  516. 5:15 This is a crime not limited to China--not removing the protective plastic on your monitor's HP logo.
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  517. those chineese theories about soviet economy and collaps at 1:30 .. that sounds extremly interesting
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  518. Absolutely loved to hear your take on the AI boom. Eagerly waiting for more. On a related topic, I have been slowly getting fed up with the hype because lots of services lately claim to be powered by AI, but actually they are just applied statistics with a chat bot as frontend. Would like to see a review of companies actually using or not AI or even ML on their services.
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  519. I have been watching your channel for a while now, and I must say that your quality and content is top notch! Thanks for your work!
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  520. Great story
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  521. A radical new theory explained and analyzed - with full precision and unrelenting objectivity - in under eleven minutes: grand chapeau.
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  522. Ugh... I thought I knew the GloFo <-> AMD split pretty well... but I learned a good handful of things today! :D
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  523. It takes lots of livers. A lot of livers.
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  524. Keep the comments civil and constructive rather than flippant -- you don't want OP to start disabling comments like the old days
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  525. 2x2 = Quadscan or Quac 🦆 for short
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  526. Not to be confused with Omicron (coronavirus mutation). Or Macron (the president of France).
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  527. He did manage to mention semiconductor for a few seconds though... sneaky....
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  528. This is the best tech channel on YouTube and that's saying some shit because there are tons of them. If I've ever wondered about something in the tech world this guy reads my mind and post the video shortly after. Great job man keep up the good work.
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  529. This was a wonderful story. As a kid in the 60s I spent hours running around the Cambridge Instrument Company where my father worked as a technician on these microscopes.
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  530. Thank you...very informative and easy listen for those who are interested in learning about Hakka People. I am 2nd generation Chinese American from Meixian. My mother who spoke Hakka Cantonese in Chinatown was ridiculed by the toishan and punti canto speaking ppl. In my youth I remember feeling embarrassed and responded to her canto in public. As I became an adult I realized that it was sadly due to their ignorance and fear of something unfamiliar to them. HAKKA people stand proud of our unique and colorful heritage. There’s a vlog on famous HAKKA people.
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  531. Amazing semiconductor industry video as always!
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  532. Some people I work closely with in Taiwan are from Waishengren background. This helps me to understand some thing they talk about with regards to their family and certain nostalgia concerning their ancestral home (even though these people have been born in Taiwan). Thank you! As European I am of course a total outsider, but it is good to know about the place I am living in.
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  533. I worked with a Tung Tao in the late 70’s at a company in San Diego called Ceramic Systems. He was an older engineer there and was a very nice guy. I had no idea until I watched the video that he was the inventor of a type of semi package at TI.
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  534. I knew a Japanese translator who worked for the occupying American forces. He was born in the US but was on the last ship from the US to Japan at the age of 17. He did not speak Japanese when he arrived in Japan. He lived in a small village through the war and when the Americans became an occupying force. He became a translator/interpreter for the American forces as he spoke fluent American English. Later he became a journalist.
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  535. They fly like RC plane with some automated features but in terms of function they're more of a mortar substitute, at least the smaller types like Switchblade family. It's definitely not 1:1 analogy, with far greater precision and moving target capability some types gained a credible anti armor role that doesn't typically exist in mortar, and when they do loitering munition can tolerate less timely or precise targeting information because of man in the loop control. And you have larger ones that are more comparable to cruise missile.
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  536. Hahahah the fact that you called it the "G" goes to show the amount of research u put in for all your videos. Kudos!!
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  537. Damn, the topic is hard, but I greatly appreciate your skill at explaining it. Thanks a lot!
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  538. 10:19 I would be very skeptical of the 20x return in 4 years. Some private equity firms have a reputation of buying distressed companies then doing some financial engineering (but not actually increasing sales) then flipping the company at a much higher price (through an IPO) because it looks a lot better on paper.
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  539. Great video, thanks. As I was listening, I thought that DRAM feels a lot like Coffee Beans. Consumers don't buy these from the suppliers so, as long as there are multiple sources, there is little profit for the Suppliers, the main profit margins (markups) are in the final product. The only way for Coffee and DRAM suppliers to get higher margins is to prevent competition. The high startup cost allowed to DRAM makers to do that where the Coffee Bean growers have not been able to.
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  540. Ah Jon! Another episode that's not just a home run, but knocks it clean out of the park! The realization that an optical gate can't be smaller than the wavelength of the light it operates on puts everything into perspective. I'm hoping for an episode on the research on room temperature super conductors and their implications for chip making!
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  541. As a long time auto industry insider, I can say you have handled the discussion far better than most channels.
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  542. I was a tech for Wang assigned to the Chicago downtown team. it was the best company I've ever worked for. I've met Dr. Wang several times at Wang Institute Lawrence and several Pride in Service awards. The man was a genius and ahead of his time. I knew when he gave up the realm to Cunningham and his Fred, I knew it was time to go. I can recall my managers being dumb as heck except Jose and District Manager Rocco who I used to help when he was a tech. My mentor Dave Ros guided a rookie me. I met many good techs, the like of Lenny, this dude named Peterson, John R. O' Malley, William Pickett, Bob D, and many more I can only see their friendly faces on my brain but not their names. I was the primary tech for Harris Bank, Continental Bank, and Northern Trust Bank.
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  543. Maybe you could do a video on the history of antenna designs, ending with cellphones or satellites. I researched this a few years ago and was surprised to learn the size and shape of the antenna in the iPhone and how such antennas were developed.
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  544. I remember that in the 70s Taiwan also exported plastic toys, in fact it was printed on one such toy that I learned that there was a country called Taiwan.
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  545. Reflection: The Asionometry team worked really hard and provided great content and amazing videos. The viewers had noticed the amount of effort and is reflected by the amount of views. We wish you all the best for the good, and a happy new year to you and the chat! 🥳
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  546. Is it just me or were the images super grainy?
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  547. I hope you can cover more low key companies like TEL in the upcoming videos. It's amazing !
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  548. I definitely remember seeing LSI Logic chips on all sorts of cards wondering what they did in the early 90s. I was perplexed because when I got into the industry in the mid 90s they were known for storage solutions. It's pretty clear now.
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  549. This was so successful at the time, now Apple and Intel do it too with similar techs. good topic!
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  550. This is really fascinating. This answers a long question I had from one of my favorite rts games growing up- Age of Empires 3. On why the Japanese Civilization couldn't hunt herded animals.
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  551. That's pretty strange... Hold the guy at gun-point, get the chop, stamp the deal, and it's official. Be unable to get the chop: Nope. Nada. Nothing. Even though you're the group who mandated that he got the chop in the first place you can't do shit without... the chop!
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  552. Indian viewer here. Love your channel!
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  553. Pretty wild, small world. I now work at a national fab that was purchased by Texas instruments and worked with some guys in salt lake that left Fairchild when it shut down. Great job on these videos man, I feel like I learn more from you about my work than from working there myself
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  554. Ah such memories! 😊 I was lead engineer on a Military HF Modem project in 1987. We bought a lot of memory for a 300 production run. However Harris beat us to the punch. So project was cancelled. We then sold our memory chips at such a profit the project as a whole broke even
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  555. With the work you do I really hope TSMC will give you a tour of a legacy node fab. Hell is going to freeze over before they'll let you into a leading edge fab, let alone with a camera, but since the general process, from a high level perspective, is still the same, it would still be insanely interesting to see the whole thing, and I don't know anyone I'd rather have narrate it than you.
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  556. I just started reading the book Diamond Age a couple of days ago, what a coincidence! I'm really enjoying it so far.
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  557. LV is so successful that it has somewhat compromised its luxury status. I consider it the brand of the upper middle class, not the truly wealthy
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  558. I remember when there was a big debate here in Australia about using treated water. You even managed to pronounce Toowoomba correctly - I'm amazed. It is a town that's famous for not having the most cosmopolitan people - I guess you could compare Queensland to Florida in terms of how the rest of the nation looks at it. Perth built two huge desalination plants and has almost completed a third, but Western Australia is quite different to the rest of the nation. They are very against privatising any government assets and are a very, very rich state that invests a lot in infrastructure. It's one of the reasons why Australia has two gas markets - WA keeps a portion of the LNG it produces for its own consumption that keeps gas prices very low, whereas the Eastern states just privatise everything and end up paying a fortune for resources they produce themselves, as they have to buy it on the international market.
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  559. Ellison, Gates -- you've outdone yourself in the pictures you chose for them. Nice job!
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  560. Good video. I'm particularly pleased that you cleared up the confusion about seagulls.
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  561. “I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating — and it gets everywhere.” Always found it kind of funny though that the Middle East with all its sand, can’t actually use it for construction because it’s too smooth.
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  562. I've been watching you for years and love the balance you strike between pure facts and good jokes. Thank you for injecting yourself and some lovely comedy into the content :)
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  563. You just have to appreciate all the scientific research done in decades past to make these advances possible only now. Also, I think an increase in competition in this space will further the progress made, and also reduce the risk of losing production capacity due to various outside factors. Semiconductors are vital to modern life and society.
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  564. This is the most important and relevant content you've ever put out.
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  565. I cranked the volume on my headphones to force this information into my brain. Asianometry does a stupendous job of informing, what was, what is, and what's will be. Technology keeps throwing curve balls, Asianometry shows us the pitch.
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  566. I was highly distracted by all these excellent memes.
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  567. This video was excellent and well researched for a non technical person i'm impressed how you could deliver all the information about the GFW. Great work man.
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  568. It does give the layman something too visualize when compared to other programs. The only point that is too be taken away is, "shits complicated"
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  569. Hey love the videos, I was wondering if you have any plans to make a video on what the limitations are on future advancements in semiconductor technology. IE how much smaller and efficient we can make transistors. Sorry if you already made a video on it, couldn't find one in your back catalogue.
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  570. As a Kiwi with a decade and half in the NZ Film industry this was a very interesting watch. Would love to see a Asianometry investigation in other NZ/ASIA Commercial interests, partnerships. (laughed @ 'does not exist')
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  571. McCarthyesque accusations? I’m not familiar with that physical effect.
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  572. Seeing the logos of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest & TVB along with their associated soundtracks really takes me back to my childhood. I know most of their films age poorly but still, I have that nostalgic feeling. Thanks for this, Asianometry!
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  573. Lol, I'm also in Singapore and can confirm - my neighbor has a cat that's always watching us from their doorway, reminding us to be productive
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  574. Fantastic videos. I was initially so puzzled at this semiconductor shortage issue for cars because I assumed that that a single low power processor would be sufficient for a full car. It just shows how wrong my assumptions were!
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  575. People who bemoan the presence of electronics in cars, and want something simple, are probably not old enough to have ever experienced cars like that. They were awful.
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  576. Hey, thanks. Keep up the good work. Your video explained why Chinese panels overtaken German panels, a question which baffled me for a long time. However, I am still baffled why solar energy become a thing THIS time around while I didn't see any major technical breakthrough. And I've been around for a long time and witness hype over solar energy 2-3 times before this round.
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  577. What a great video. I well remember the IBM 360 from my grad school days (1973 - 76), and also of carrying around those boxes of punch cards for my fortran program. The university was very proud to have that technology. IBM was king of the hill in those days, but today seem to be only a shadow of their former selves. Thank you for the work that was put into this video.
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  578. Hey long time fan of your channel. You touched on my field of interest so I thought to leave some notes. Notes from a Master Student AI: 1:22 You mention Semantic labeling, but don't actually show any semantic segmentation, which is the semantic labeling of each pixel. It is slightly different from instance segmentation (on the right) because with semantic segmentation you do actually need to assign a value to every pixel, not just the objects within the image. The most complete form is panoptic segmentation, which is both instances and classes annotated at every pixel. 1:47 Brand new dataset is not actually the standard, what commonly is tested is the generalization from one subset of a dataset (~80%) to another subset of the dataset (~20%). A brand new dataset falls under Out of Distribution (OOD) attacks and under the general term "robustness". 3:22 AlphaZero is a warped example of the concept you're trying to explain. Because AlphaZero has a perfectly working simulation to work with, and its predecessor also did a lot of self play. The improvement was in removing the need to pretrain (or prime) the model on humanplay. This was an advancement in reinforcement learning, not the simulation to reality gap. 4:59 You miss the full scope of difference in scale, the difference between 3 and 96 doesn't seem large (factor of 32) but what is actually significant is the amount parameters. That difference is between ~10,000 parameters for ALVINN and 170,000,000,000 (170 billion) Parameters for GPT-3 a factor of 17 million. Also check out DALL-E for the new multi-modal language and image comprehension and GATO for multimodel behavior learning. 5:20 A KMP 1500 robot isn't deployed with any machine learning behavior. It's all old-fashioned expert-made modelling. A better illustration would be robot arms grabbing complex and/or morphable objects. 6:11 Actually the problem isn't that 5000 isn't enough, it's an academic benchmark dataset. Big companies can get 500,000 images if they try a bit (probably even more). The problem is that is also not enough for self-driving cars. And it's not because 500.000 isn't enough to detect trees or pedestrians in the city on a clear day, but there needs to be an insane amount of diversity to detect trees, roads under any weather condition and circumstance. Not to mention 1 in a billion or 1 in a trillion edge cases. For the rest, the carla stuff is great! PS: for another mind-blow look up: "Neural Radiance Fields" and "instant NERFS".
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  579. You went all out on the puns for this one lol
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  580. Great insightful look at a random piece of Taiwanese internet culture that I had never heard of. I found it funny at 4:20 when you said "it uses a more modern network protocol called Telnet". LOL telnet is by no means a modern network protocol haha. The quality of the PTT's authentication and encryption will be extremely lacking compared to running a modern web service over HTTPS
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  581. I'm very excited about the silicon photonics approach. Photonic chips don't need to perform multiplications one at a time, but rather do the whole matrix multiplication in parallel, which makes it a O(1), or constant time operation. The chip needs to be configured to multiply by a certain matrix, which takes milliseconds, and can then perform matrix multiplications as fast as you can give it inputs. With 50GHz modulators and photodetectors readily available, I'm excited to see what companies like QuiX, iPronics and Xanadu will achieve.
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  582. I'm currently binge watching all your videos. Love this channel so much! Hakka Taiwanese here. 😉
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  583. I was totally oblivious to the progress they made. Thanks you for your ever-excellent video essays!
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  584. Thank you so much for this video, my parent contracted HepC a year before I was born. All my childhood I was worried about it. Once the cure came out I was super excited, but later got very depressed once I learned about that it's only available for late stage HepC in most of Europe. I almost encouraged my parent to seek for the cure nevertheless. A few years passed and suddenly health insurance would finally cover it, my parent was yet very skeptical about the actual benefit, couldn't believe what the doctors said. Now my parent is cured, first few months after healing they got a lot of energy, but eventually the energy levels dropped again - apparently a common thing for those who received the cure.
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  585. Dear Asianometry, Thank you once again for a wonderful and informative piece. I lived in San Francisco for 30 years from 1975 to 2005, as a result I was very peripherally there during the emergence of what is now euphemistically called The Tech Industry. The discussion of The American Worker made me smile. I dated a Parisian Girl for while and she looked upon the US and its work ethic, the way we looked upon the Asian Work Ethic, she thought we were insane ( smile ). While I agree with Chang and his description of the American Worker, if he had been in France the machine in question may not have gotten repaired until the end of the week ( smile ), and if I was going to pick a place in the world to live and work in, to be honest it would be Europe. This brings up the larger discussion of what it means to have an efficient corporation and a healthy and happy workforce, however in time this question may not matter as AI System Robotics may very well create the workforce that Chang could only have dreamed of.
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  586. Being a DBA student, it's interesting to see where all modern concepts began.
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  587. Your videos are so informative, well-presented, sometimes even inspiring. While in the west we're used to either big personality CEOs or boring decline, the theme in several of your videos is how Asian nations achieved success through decades of sensible, focused, well-managed progress.
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  588. Interesting since my grand parents and both direct families including my mom/dad (as small children) retreated with the KMT to Taiwan. Do not know much of the history since I was born in the USA.
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  589. Dude, you're smart as f*ck. How do you learn so much about such a wide array of topics and sound so smart talking about them? Lol
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  590. alternative title: China: "I don't like sand"
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  591. Here are the links to other Asianometry videos that mentioned in the video, with timestamps: 1:48 The Waishengren, Briefly Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRq9B_-svvU 4:47 Hongxin: China’s Billion Dollar Semiconductor Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78
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  592. Great presentation! Some very minor observations: the term "VLSI" was already in common use before the Mead&Conway project. Mosis was an interface service for foundaries, but was not a foundary itself (you gave other examples of this, to which you can add Europractice). The key idea of Mead&Conway was to allow systems designers to create their own blocks instead of having to pass black boxes to specialized circuit designers. Some of the design would use standard cells, but for other parts you would connect transistors directly - for example doing a barrel shifter as a regular transistor lattice instead of a bunch of standard cell multiplexers.
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  593. Pasquale has often been quoted as some sort of legend by the oldheads at ST. I had no idea why. Now I do. Thank you -an Indian ST employee
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  594. Great video! Love your content. Wanted to let you know that Cymer is pronounced “Symer”, and is derived from “excimer laser.” Looking forward to additional great content!
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  595. Great video man! A lot of good information that I haven’t heard yet! (Assuming it is all true, there are A LOT of bad channels on YouTube when it comes to the 3GD, it’s all the same stuff repeated) but you sound VERY informed, so I think I am safe to assume you are being completely honest. (It’s just new information to me, and I am to lazy to fact check it 😂 well at least I’m honest🤦‍♂️😂) so great job on the research and how you put it all together, and you did a great job with the narration! I am guessing this had to be a decent amount of work for you, but I think it was worth it! I know most people will just say good video, so sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to let you know why I thought it was good👍 happy to give a like for this video and subscribe to your channel!
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  596. Thankyou once again for an interesting video. Chinese immigration is a sensitive subject in Australia. There's a tension between what constitutes a legitimate security/infrastructure/housing concern and racism.
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  597. "rivers are big and full of freshwater, which is convenient as we can only drink fresh water" :goodvibes:😂
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  598. If I tried to guess what your next video was about and bet on it, I’d be so insanely broke by now 😆 Again your content pipeline is insane man
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  599. This has to be the most underrated channel in all the 'effing YouTube 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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  600. Love your AI example of taking eggs for ping-pong balls with 100% confidence. It is hilarious!
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  601. Another great company profile from one of YouTube's best channels. ASUS produces some really great products. For advanced home users, ASUS Wi-Fi routers in particular are some of the best around, especially because the community supported "Merlin" firmware is just so good, and helps unlock some very useful features for advanced users. It's hard to find routers that has such great community support but with a firmware project like Asuswrt-Merlin it makes recommending ASUS routers really easy. The fact ASUS is based in Taiwan and does a lot of manufacturing in Taiwan makes the choice really easy. Other router manufacturers like TP-Link are based in China, which is obviously problematic for network infrastructure.
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  602. I have just returned from 3 days camping on sand beach and have sand everywhere. I hate sand now. Otherwise, cool topic for video!
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  603. Thank you so much for covering this. We recently built our Holiday home in Pakistan Punjab and I was always curious about where the water came from and if it would ever run out. From the reactions from most people, Pakistanis are not taking this issue as seriously as they should. Everyones response to "What if the water runs out" was "We'll just dig deeper".
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  604. These are quality videos. The breadth of your knowledge is impressive.
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  605. I am Dutch, I can confirm that the culture here is quite "blunt" as he says it. The Flemish people use the term direct for it which means something like people speaking their mind and using less tact. I have been in touch with a few people who work(ed) for ASML, I know that they liked it that they were lower profile, I know that they are aware that they will loose their lead if they would take it easy, some company would catch up eventually.
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  606. Every TSMC shareholder should follow your channel, greetings from the Dominican Republic!
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  607. I've learned so much from you! I'm going to give you 6 dollars and watch the rest of your videos
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  608. Checkout this channel's "TSMC - Essays" for more great videos.
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  609. Wow. So much in one video. I wish I were an academic again and could pursue this as case studies. The decreasing cost of freight is the elephant in the room; seemingly boring, but so important as globalisation increases. I would be interested in a video on how the American domestic transport industry works. Their trucks don't seem to have changed much in decades. In Australia, B-doubles are common, with two trailers rather than one. Even with conventional truck trailers, Australian trucks have an extra axle, so 6 vs 5. The USA trucking industry seems very fragmented with a lot of inertia to change. It doesn't seem to have changed much from the east to west shipping when Europe dominated decades ago, to the west to east shipping with most trade coming from Asia. Similarly, it seems strange there are so few big ports on the west coast of the USA and then mainly in space-constrained innercity LA. Then there is the rail system too.
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  610. About Fonterra and Chile, they are trying to find a buyer for Soprole since last year because of reorganization. But also they got into one of the weirdest conspiracies because they owned the entire company (99.89% of stock) and people were making claims without evidence that Soprole was importing milk from NZ to Chile and also promoting its main competitor Colún (also a co-op) as a brand made of "pure Chilean milk". Of course nothing made sense (we import some milk but mostly dairy products, and none of it through Soprole or from NZ) but it ended in Soprole doing a campaign to tell people that their products are made with Chilean milk, and all companies putting little flags in their milk bricks 🤦🏽‍♂ Also, 1:00 West Island 😆
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  611. I really enjoy your in depth analysis. Thank you for this content <3
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  612. I love how when you were talking about how they relied on other peoples work as dependencies I instantly was like "That sounds a lot like our old pals NodeJS/NPM" and then you immediately went into a talk about the web design comparison lol. Have you ever thought of doing interviews with people in these kinds of fields? Could be cool to hear from those dealing with it directly interspersed throughout one of these! Obviously they can't get too detailed but just general personal input would be cool to hear from those suffering on the chip frontlines lol.
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  613. Really good topic, as an Australian this has a massive impact on our energy consumption so it's great to see it get good in-depth coverage.
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  614. dude these vids are high quality af you're going to be huge this is one of my fav channels on here keep up the good work my man
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  615. Making the most boring sounding topics sound interesting is a unique specialty of yours isn't it?
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  616. Good insight into CATL's latest direction, John. And I would agree this tech makes more sense for grid scale storage than transportation. So, why do you think 'charcoal' for anodes rather than graphite or even graphene?
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  617. Not to be confused with Macaroni (dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes).
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  618. Your impression of "Internet Experts" was spot on! :D
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  619. when I was a kid, I used to go spear fishing in southern CA. One time I saw a large stingray in the sand. I tried to swim down to it and it vanished in blink of an eye. pacific stingray can go 30 mph :)
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  620. I wonder if you could ever get Morris Chang and Gordon Moore in the same room to chat. That would be interesting.
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  621. Its rather depressing that he has been posting for nearly four years and despite that his subscriber base is less than the 100k mark. The subjects he has chosen are highly interesting plus the insightful and relatively objective analysis of topics makes one question the wisdom of YT's algorithm.
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  622. Thank you for these amazing videos. The hardware manufacturing world is a beast of it's own and I love learning about it through your content.
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  623. Thanks. BTW the shoe manufacturing episode was enlightening. Keeps things fresh :)
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  624. Asian LV is Maotai. They both sell the perception of wealth, not handbags or alcohol. Interestingly Moutai surpassed LVMH in market cap during covid for the first time.
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  625. Yeah I want to know his background. He's either deeply involved and knowledgeable in the economic, tech and semiconductor space or very very good at researching and writing scripts that are dense while being easy to follow paired with excellent visualizations. No other channel I know has been pumping out this much in depth content of complex topics. He's definitely has a rare talent.
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  626. Doing a video on BOTH china AND bitcoin? Yeah, I prime bot magnet.
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  627. don't proceed any further for your own safety or you'll encounter physicists and they're weird
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  628. Thank you for making such a research and qualitative content 🙏
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  629. A nitpick. As a GPU computing expert (working currently in Taiwan) I would say that it is not just about having cheaper and more efficient GPUs. There is still a lot to understand when constructing efficient algorithms to GPU type parallel multiprocessors - e.g. with using Nvidia CUDA tools. I have played a part in the development of some very recent ones. There is still lot to figure out.
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  630. This is amazing - it is rather fascinating how long they lasted given how far behind they were.
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  631. I'm a Canadian engineer who did work in Kaohsiung, Taiwan many years ago installing a large networked SCADA system at several treatment plants for the Taiwan Water Company. Those facilities I worked on are probably are the precursors to supply the raw water used by TSMC for their fabs on the island. Cool.
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  632. Great video as always. Thanks for the information. Can you do a general one on swarm munitions / drones
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  633. Graphite: "Anyway, here's Van der Waal"
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  634. As someone close to the petrochemical industry, i'm quite heartened to see your analysis. I think the training institute CPTC which I've attended has closed. Unfortunately we probably wont see such government-private sector collaborations like we did during the founding years. Too much compliance and regulations.... GKS was really instrumental in Singapore's nation building. As much as people revered LKY, GKS was similar in stature. Their selfless attitude putting nation before self really kept Singapore ahead in the Four Asian Tigers.
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  635. I was just about to sleep when a wild and excited, although I have to say very polite, deer rushed into my room and said: I went to ASML! I guess sleep can wait a little bit.
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  636. 9:01 I'd also add, that it's not just "drilling a hole" through the PCB. That would be the least of it. The hole needs to be electrically conductive and solder must adhere to it perfectly. The most usual way to do it is to deposit copper chemically.
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  637. Wow. Just discovered this channel. Great Asian focus that is hard to find on YouTube for business content.
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  638. Your video really help me understand Taiwan and also why, here people still reminiscent about the Japanese era.
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  639. Boston was a centre for the minicomputer wars, with: DEC, Data General, Wang, Prime, and Apollo amongst the players from the 1960-1980s. That war with IBM, amongst themselves, and eventually with PCs would make an interesting video. . .
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  640. "however sand mining is a charged subject" 😆
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  641. Thank you for putting this content together! This clearly shows the insane amount of engineering and science laying the behind the piece of electronics on our hands today.
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  642. 00:04 - “I wonder how long until we get a sight pun” 00:06 - “well, there it is” 🤣
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  643. Im really interested in tsmc 3nm finfech vs samsung 3nm GAA,but the quality information on it,its so scarce,rare. By the way,awesome video,im a sub of your youtube and newsletter and i also own tsmc stock since around april 2020. I love TSMC and ASML,they really push the edge on semis.
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  644. It's a running gag on this channel. Jon refuses to pronounce it correctly, just for the lulz. Alternative headcanon: He is a deer (according to his profile pic) so he refuses to pronounce it as "deer RAM". Whenever he says DRAM and people comment on it, it shows who has been here long enough to hear it before. Although this must be the record for the number of times he has said DRAM in a single video.
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  645. Discovered your channel recently. Enjoyed and learnt from what I have seen so far. Thank you.
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  646. Interesting, factual documentation of the viewing technology changing the same basic type of media. Good show.
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  647. Yesss I've been waiting on this! Everything you put out is great, but I'm especially loving these chip videos!!!
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  648. Love how you analyse such diverse aspects of industry!
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  649. I am a minority in the US. I would be one too in China. I am half Chinese, that is, 1/4 Hakka and 1/4 Cantonese, each has its own language.
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  650. "not to be confused with the politician" haha thank you for the disclaimer
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  651. Memory lane indeed…I worked in the Sun/SGI/DEC aftermarket in the late 80’s through the 90’s. Those were heady times. I met McNeely and Joy at a trade show. Rode about $50,000 of Sun stock down to the ground later LOL. “Stanfurd” lots of UC people called it “Snodfart”.😂
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  652. How about a video on Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule from 1895-1945?
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  653. I was thinking “Wow so much of the research Is Australian” then I realised that it was obvious why.
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  654. As long as it's interesting, you will never get tired 😉
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  655. If you want to read the paper, search the internet for its title "Busting the 'Princelings': The Campaign Against Corruption in China's Primary Land Market". Knowing what the websites for research journals are like, any direct link I post will inevitably become invalid in a few months (possibly a few minutes), so Googling the title is the easiest approach.
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  656. I’ve wondered this question in my mind since I fell in love with Cold War history in my late teens circa 2008. I’ve never found an answer to this question that satisfied me because it’s such a niche in a niche so to speak. Great video again! 10/10
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  657. I literally just binge watch all your semiconductor series yesterday from TSMC to China and wondering what was the industry like in Malaysia. Then boom you answered my question! Thank you so much for this, it was so well researched on a quite niche topic.
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  658. Good video as always. Thank you. I do feel you missed a couple of details. - Maersk run their own ports and have parts in others, so it is part of what pushed the whole port business to support the big ships. - Also on Maersk, they have a few mid-size ships being build that are meant to run green fuel as in something power-to-x based. And they have let it be know they have customers willing to help fund it, simply put those customers want to boost their green image and are willing to pay extra for shipping.
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  659. Through and accessible mini-documentary on the water management policies of Singapore. Great job. Makes me want to play Sim City (or City Skylines).
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  660. i am 22 and seriously thinking about studying engineering at this age, thanks to you. i am quite speechless with this content, thanks.
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  661. Thank you for covering this topic! Most people don't really ever have to think about hearing aids until they're older, if at all. My dad has worn hearing aids since he was two or three (c. 1969). Just the changes since they went digital when I was a kid in the early 2000s are amazing, let alone the advances he's seen in nearly sixty years of daily wear.
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  662. Fantastic video as always, Jon.
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  663. I love your litho videos bro I’ve seen everyone at least 5 times. Your videos are the only ones I have found that go into great detail about every process and very easy to understand. This semiconductor field just fascinating and boggles my mind
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  664. It would be nice to have a video on the industry of solar panels
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  665. As one who grew up around this time in Hong Kong, I really appreciate your excellent and enlightening analysis, thanks!
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  666. Like Germany, Taiwan keep the inflation artifically low, meaning low wages and competitive in international market.
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  667. You've taken up a lot of topics that i've found to be extremly interesting, this being one amongst them. Explainations of TSMC's creation was really compact and informative, you briefly mentioned national champions in one of your other videos and really appreciate it if you would do more on Japan's and South Korea's economies preferably the zaibatsu and chaebol models. P.S- Loved the one on TSMC and their dutch supplier.
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  668. Great video, the Chinese space sector doesn't get much attention, and the private sector even less so. One recent development is that there's plans in their 14th 5 year plan to build a commercial spaceport for private space use, which just goes to show how much the government is encouraging this industry. I'd recommend checking out the DongFang Hour podcast, they do a good job of explaining Chinese space and recapping space news.
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  669. Dear Asianometry, Thank you once again for a well researched and delivered piece. As a working artist I have "options" on how I survive in a world. I can paint a large number of small paintings on simple subjects that are moderately demanding technically and artistically, with simplistic content, and they sell well. Small paintings always sell better than larger works, but they are moderately interesting to me as an artist to create. These tend to be low priced and moderate volume. Or I can create a body of work that meets the interests of the largest number of buyers, relatively low technical and artistic requirements, and these can be larger works, or small, they sell very well, but the content is derivative, repetitive, and even less interesting to create. These tend to be moderate volume, but better priced Or I can create work that interests me as an artist, this work is demanding, both technically and artistically, with a high potential for failure and a low potential for sales. These tend to be very high priced and low volume and tend to be a specific type of collector or buyer. Or I can have a Full Time Job, while this will allow me to paint whatever I wish artistically, and if I have sales all the better, it demands almost all my time, and leaves little time to work as an artist. Or I can marry well ( or have a trust fund ), this means I can paint full time and define my content outside of any commercial requirements, it allows me to paint full time regardless of sales.This is the best of all possible worlds, but if no one is interested in my work, no commercial gallery will take me on, as they prefer artists with a known track records of shows and sales. TV, Music and Movies have a similar problem. While content defines the viewership, and earnings, the medium, viewership and the price also defines the content.
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  670. Love your videos mate! You've taught me a lot and inspired me to learn more on many topics you've covered. I'll welcome you if you ever decide to visit New Zealand :)
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  671. Thanks for putting this video together. Very informative. Am a Hakka too. Parents from Meixian, immigrated to Mauritius and I am now living in Melbourne, Australia. Had a chance to visit my Dad's hometown a few years back. Very emotional welcome from relatives still living there.
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  672. Only found you recently, but your stuff seems fascinating. Keep up the good work!
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  673. Love your work on TSMC. Keep it coming :)
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  674. Sounds like you're back to your proper microphone setup. The recording quality is much improved over your recent videos!
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  675. Yes! New video! You're cranking them out and I love every single one of them. Perfect mix of indepth dives into facisnating things no one covers and your humor adds a great touch.
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  676. The information used to be rock-solid long ago, but it ended up split up into tiny bits.
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  677. Sounds like it was a great event! Wish I didn’t live on the other side of the world from it lol.
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  678. I've been waiting for this one! Thanks for illuminating that murky, physical space between chip design and circuit design 🙏
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  679. Jon - You don't have to eat the full slice of black forest cake. The real world is analog - you can have have a 1/2 slice... 1/4 slice... or just grab the cherry from the top. As always, a great video on a very complex topic.
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  680. Thank you, it’s like to 90’s al over again. To Costa Rica!
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  681. 2:52 "Atari put in an order for 2600 pieces of a plastic connector for their joystick cable". I think you may have got the order quantity and the product name mixed up: the name of Atari's 1977 console was the "Atari 2600", and it sold millions of units, so I doubt Atari's order quantity for Foxconn's big break happened to be a mere 2600 pieces. Unless it was an initial batch or something.
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  682. 11:37 The Wii U wasn't helped by its awful branding. The name is way too similar to the name "Wii". Consumers thought it was a tablet/gamepad addon for the Wii but in reality all the games weren't compatible with the original console
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  683. Anything to do with ads is gonna be completely wasted on me. I can see a LLM PA somewhere in there, but the rest gets a "meh" from me so far.... Great video, thank you!
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  684. Biology undergrad here u did an awesome job with this video I’m impressed with how many subjects u do these in depth videos on
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  685. Love the video! I can’t speak on semiconductor wafer bonding, but in the MEMS field, wafer to wafer bonding is commonly used to package MEMS components in hermetic environments. The EVG tools that you mention can apply force, temperature, and vacuum, the last one sucks any air out of the MEMS package. This is really important for high Q factor MEMS resonant devices, where any damping, including any air molecules, can severely degrade performance. One subset of thermocompression bonding is eutectic bonding, which is super cool because if you heat up two different element thin films together, the alloy you create will have a lower melting point than each of the individual elements themselves. This can let you bond wafers together with really low temperatures. Indium-tin has a melting point of just over 100C, but most others are higher. Gold-tin is below 300C. When you’re choosing materials for your bonding, it all depends on what you’re designing. In-Sn has a low Young’s modulus, which might be undesirable. But Au-Sn’s eutectic temperature might be too high, and your devices can’t take that much heat. So you need to pick and choose materials to suit your needs
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  686. These videos never fail to be interesting
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  687. 8:00 Not only that, but soviet institutes were actively tryna hire as many people as possible, to fullfill the incentives in place to hire as many people as possible. Factories often times had extra workers that would simply walk around with absolutely nothing to do, and would simply pretend to do work. Same story with computers. Why get a computer, when you can just as easily hire 50 people to do the calculations? Why automate things, when you have a near inexhaustible supply of disposables to do the work? Thats the problem with ideology.
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  688. I think I am the First Asianometry Fanboy. Very proud of the growth, love all the videos.
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  689. As a Brazilian, thanks for providing a fab scale in soccer fields
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  690. I wonder how Thailand's automotive production and export ecosystem compares with India's. I noticed that India wasn't on that list of Thai car exports anywhere. From what I know about Tata Motors, they've been edging out a lot of competition in India for the small car, small truck and especially EV market. (I did a little reading. I guess they have some substantial presence in Thailand. I don't know how it compares to the Japanese presence)
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  691. Just realised I have a lot of china ancestry, I’m half hakka a quarter China-chinese (I’m Malaysian-chinese btw) and half teochew(paternal side)- however I traced my ancestry on my surname and found out that one of my ancestors is a runaway prince (his family got dethroned so he was forced to escaped- in I forgot which dynasty-) I’m sad bc my chinese isn’t good at ALL, and I can’t speak hakka or teochew however I can still understand some basic hakka, I can make out the meaning of sentences bc it’s kind of similar to chinese xD
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  692. Thank you. I am a 2nd generation HAKKA residing in Singapore. My parents were from Southern China, they migrated to Singapore maybe in the early 1930. Remember the animosity with the other Chinese during my growing up year. Have to learn to fight to survive in that kind of environment then. Today this is no longer the case as there are many HAKKA ladies married to other Chinese sub group.
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  693. Have you ever considered doing deep dive videos? I think it would be awesome to see your style of videos go even deeper into a topic, with interviews, etc and targeting closer to an hour run time. I know it is a big ask, since you are just 1 person and already publish a ton of content but it would be really cool to see a special episode every once in a while.
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  694. I just put up some 20 year old panels that are monocrystaline, made in Germany and they are still 98% efficient! I sure hope my newer panels also hold up like those over time!
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  695. I did not expect that your mom joke.
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  696. ​ @Asianometry  It's ok to be sad from time to time. Thank you for sharing. I hope your tomorrow is a wonderful day. You make the day a little more bearable for so many people. And you fill the world with wonder. Thank you.
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  697. Extremely interesting history of the TSMC minds and influences on other semi foundries.
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  698. I appreciate that you are capable of talking about this subject matter with a neutral voice and matter of fact style. This kind of subject matter would be so easy to sensationalise.
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  699. Congratulations for reaching 10k subscribers! Your content is always enjoyable to watch regardless of the subject. As a long time subscriber, I hope your channel continues to prosper!
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  700. Delightfully well researched and narrated.
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  701.  @Halflifex  Fair point -- it's hard to tell sometimes (Poe's law)
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  702. I actually designed, built, and tested a cryogenic system to do these types of NMR experiments, and I used these types of spectroscopy synthetic diamond NV centers to validate it! Very cool to see a video on your channel about it :)
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  703. As a patreon (which I assume you must be too to comment so early), I think this may be the most valuable channels to patreon to. Even if a person just watches the videos at normal releases, I think this channel is a very worthwhile channel to subscribe to if you care about anything relevant to the world today, or even a few decades ago. The breadth (of the channel) is astonishing.
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  704. Thank you so much. I love your videos. The content you give is awesome. Just what I need in my life <3
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  705. Thank you for the quick turnaround for this. I've been looking forward to it. Thank you for the respect paid to those who lost their lives. Also... spoiler . . . . . as a massive Godzilla fan and knowing about G-Force found the moment of levity at 4:42 is laugh out loud funny. I'm not the only one who thinks of Godzilla when I hear G-Force. A good way to break things up.
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  706. Spent his entire life climbing a ladder only to lose it all in an instant.
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  707. Close to 100k, hope you enjoy your play button □. Thank you for your content
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  708. Nice video! I'm amazed at how much the old rhetoric echos what is happening now!
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  709. For those of you interested in learning more about MEMS I can highly recommend this video by New Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGpoUN29zk It doesn't cover as much of the economic detail, but has some rather fascinating use cases.
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  710. It's basically unknown if a video will do well, but regardless you still cover a wide range of interesting topics. This channel actually exposes me to a wide range of topics I would otherwise never hear about and I'm grateful. You structure your script well, present info in a way that isn't overbearing, and throw in some great nerdy humor every so often. This actually one of my more favorite channels that I'm subscribed to.
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  711. TSMC is a BIG DEAL. Quite frankly, I'm sick of hearing about Intel. I want to hear more about other big players in tech like TSMC and Canon.
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  712. Can confirm its one of the stronger videos released on the channel.
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  713. Those carbon atoms will never be able to work in hollywood again!
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  714. I wish I have a longer lifespan just to learn about these things... One thing that the creators must be careful about is the size and complexity.. I think today nobody has a complete knowledge about the internals of linux anymore (including, I believe, Linus and Kroah-Hartmann), because it got so huge and complicated. Linus himself said it is "bloated". Many people believe that linux would have the same capabilities and speed with a much smaller and simpler codebase.
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  715. Standing ovation Sir! And it's a miracle that you didn't break your tongue at the Polish guys name! :P
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  716. Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos! I was born and raised in Malaysia but from Scotland originally. Find your videos interesting! Would love to know your look on world politics?
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  717. I'm surprised that theres no direct rail link to these TSMC facilities... Here in the UK, if a company were to build such large facilities with a high number of employees, the local council would probably require that a rail line or guided/busway be constructed to the new facility as terms for approval during the planning permission stage like what has been required in the new Barking Riverside development in London, GB or at the Redcar steelworks in North-East England...
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  718. Thanks for the industry update and the clear explanations of the technology. But oh boy, the humor was on fire in this episode as well.
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  719. Great summary on a subject lacking coverage. I'm an avid subscriber to your channel. You seem to be one of a small few who are able to dig through the details and clearly articulate the business of the semiconductor industry. At the end, you mentioned Samsung and TSMC are able to lock other competitors from the industry. Is this mainly due to IP they have secured around advanced node manufacturing?
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  720. I lived a few years in China and was surprised to find that the milk market had many western brands made outside China (Germany, New Zealand…). They were often the lowest cost also which surprised me since most imported food items were of course much more expensive. I thought maybe it was because of government subsidies/minimum price to farms had them producing too much which they didn’t care.
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  721. Your videos deserve far more views.
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  722. Being just 23 million people and making such amazing achievements is really impressive
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  723. Many of us use cellphone cameras to photograph each slide only because we're nearsighted and everyone uses tiny fonts on tiny screens for their slides.
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  724. Yes, he always MEATS my expectations, and provides Wagyu quality.
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  725. #1 semiconductor company in the world,TSMC is taiwanese 's proud.
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  726. As someone who aspires to work as an analog designer this was really encouraging to hear.
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  727. +1 that sounds interesting. Also related: why isn't Japan super successful in semi-conductors? They invented blue LEDs... Perhaps as you video alluded to they fell into the trap on spending too much on 'basic research' and not enough on 'applied research'? Or is it that they simply missed TSMC's contract business model and never had the scale to build businesses like Intel fab or Samsung fab?
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  728. Great content and production value. 👍🏼 I’m in manufacturing and led a project the past several to expand our production footprint from Asia into the Americas. Many of the criteria you mentioned are spot on. I would also add local talent pool as a critical factor for expansion success. The project ultimately failed (after lots of $...) for a variety of reasons, including social and political unrest. But one of the reasons was within our control - the team here didn’t have enough bandwidth to expand their operations to become a truly global manufacturing operation. Will be curious to see how TSMC creates their SWAT team for the initial critical start-up phase. Arizona Heat is dry heat (har har). Will be supporting your Patroen, keep up the good work and thank you. Oh, would be great if you haven’t already to better understand the chip manufacturing flow from raw material in to wafer out and what are the operational processes to support that, e.g. water and energy intensity, storage criteria, etc. You already mention the clean room and modular and scalable layout which are important. Thanks.
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  729. To be honest, a lot of what I hear about Asia and tech in videos like Polymatter, I already know, having lived in China since 2016. Your videos are truly a treasure trove of new information for me.
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  730. it is amazing how fast you produce these high quality videos. I have been waiting all week for the next one ;)
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  731. Thanks for the report as an ABC (American Born Chinese) I once in a while here my parents talk about this, good to understand it more clearly. My parents retreated to Taiwan when they were very little. My grandfather was a general so was able to arrange for the family to go there. Supposedly they were materially well off (had driver, car...to keep up appearances) but food wise was sort of tight. My mom got into a good USA masters college and was allowed to stay afterwards so my knowledge is limited about Taiwan.
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  732. Not just the men! But the women and children too!
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  733. Thank you for this! I had to smile when you mentioned your father at NSC...that's where I worked first...at their first fab (I don't think we called them that at the time!) in Danbury CT
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  734. I once met a Cuban Chinese man. Very interesting to hear about Chinese who come from places other than America, China or Taiwan.
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  735. What a treat! Thanks for making this video
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  736. Thank you, Jon! For your hard and diligent work, cranking out two in depth videos each week. I joined for the semiconductor insight and really enjoy the tangents you take into other industries and locations. 401K as I watch this.. I wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year.
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  737. In the previous video I was kind of rooting for SMIC with the backstory of veteran Chinese natives coming back and starting something for themselves. But now I feel like the outcome of the lawsuit was probably justified. That email from that Marco Mora guy is imo as sleazy as it gets, putting pressure on people in the direction to do stuff you know isn't fair game. I don't know the full story, but on first impression it would possibly warrant personal trial as well. Awesome videos though!
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  738. Do a video on MEM(E)S.
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  739. I thought this would be about water. Instead it's about industry collaboration, so I wasn't disappointed.
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  740. Here in Israel there are many projects that would love to have open source EDA even WITHOUT a PDK (i.e. moon lander project = SpaceIL) and many university projects in robotics & motion control. Also small startups can benefit from not spending millions on tools. I was at a satellite comm startup like that. Cadence & Synopsis don't care about who the customers are small startup = Intel = Qualcomm; more or less. This makes DARPA's idea a good innovation "base". These are national technology people, they think different (sorry for the pun)
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  741. I love these analyses/biographies of the CCP's politicians. Keep up the excellent content my friend!
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  742. Thanks for the coverage. You do better than most Indian YouTubers in breaking this down. Well done.
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  743. Nice video, The heavy research that goes into each video is impressive and doesn't compromise on the video's quality at all. 10/10
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  744. You might not believe this but I worked at a company in the 90's that got a job from Sanyo Solar in Carson Ca. (LA county) to make ingot transfer carts for ingot right out of the growing machines. They were lined with 1/4" (6.25 mm) kelvar blanket material. They made Solar panels here in the US! Or at least the silicon wafers. That was a different era. Paying people a bowl of rice for a days work became the trend.
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  745. Nearly 50 years ago, I used to work as a young engineer at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science. This institute was headed by prof. Armin Delong who independently pioneered scanning electron microscopy in the 1950s. His research resulted in a successful range of electron microscopes which were exported worldwide. The Soviet-bloc's first electron beam lithograph was also designed there. The institute still exists (Google up "Institute of Scientific Instruments") and its commercial spinoff TESCAN is now one of the world's leading manufacturers of Scanning Electron Microscopes. I myself left the institute in 1981, migrated to Australia and founded a company pioneering software-defined radio (Google up "winradio").
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  746. Thanks for being one of the best knowledge communicator out there dude.
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  747. Detailed, truthful and understandable but not boring. Thanks for a great video!
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  748. Thanks for making all these videos they are very unique and always very interesting topics. I learn so much from them
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  749. This is one of the best channels on YT for in-depth historical explanations of relatively arcane but interesting topics. There's a lot of social mobility provided by cities having good public transport networks. Helps people without cars get to jobs across the city with a reasonable commute duration. In lower density cities, buses routes seem to make sense. In higher density cities, a partially underground metropolitan rail network is great. Supposedly Japan's rail networks own the real-estate of the stations themselves, which are bustling shopping complexes. This provides another revenue source for operating the expensive rail system.
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  750. Having grown up in Hong Kong through the 60s and 70s I now see how we got our phone lines so quickly, how my Mother got her driving licence in 6 months, etc  My Dad always denied he had ever seen corruption, but at New Years, so many red packets were given to a stream of people, most of whom I as a child only saw at that time, guys who only spoke Mandarin with my Dad, so no one else understood - thanks for the vid, brings back vivid memories
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  751. $20/minute is pretty cheap for a lithography machine to be down. Maybe it was $20k/minute? I had an uncle that attempted in-land shrimp farming 40 years ago, though was not successful. Shrimp are extremely difficult to farm, so it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
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  752. Last I heard TSMC is introducing N3E which is "only" a 60% density shrink as opposed to the standard 70%, but it's already yield ramping right. This shouldn't be a big issue since N5 was already a bigger leap over N7 than normal. 84% in the best cases actually. So from N7 to N3, on average, follows the 70% density shrink every two years.
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  753. Must be patreon
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  754. Once again, great video! Can you make a video about your predictions about the next leader of China and the potential scenarios that can play out (i.e Xi continues as leader for another term, he names his own successor, his own premier succeeds him, or a completely new administration comes in., etc) I think it’ll be interesting to talk about it, thanks!
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  755. Hello Jon, I am a Senior in highschool beginning my journey into EE, and your videos are a great way to learn about the EE industry as a whole, I like to say its all about learning to stand on the shoulders of giants, and your channels is the best way to learn for that. Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate them.
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  756. believe me, after 31 years in the semi industry (as in all industries) this is so much just a 1% tip of the iceburg --
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  757. This was really good. It's incredible how many of our current cpus and SOCs are dependant on these machines and the massive amount of suppliers and fabs and clients that make this possible. I subbed straight away, and I'm going to see what else you have on your channel. Kodus :)
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  758. Love from Singapore!
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  759. These history videos of yours are my favorites. Pleas keep it up and tell more stories like these. I had no idea about these brave men and their contribution.
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  760. As a chemist, I loved that line. For anyone confused, its actually through electrolysis. Attaching 2 wires to an electrical source and submerging them on opposite sides of a tank of water containing positive and negative ions. Positive ions are attracted to the negative electrode and vice versa(very simplified explanation but you get the gist)
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  761. The quality of videos from Asianometry has always been ASTOUNDING! The research thorough. The presentation clean and engaging. THANK YOU!
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  762. I love the channel's content and I hope you continue to grow so others can see your videos man. Thanks so much for the regular uploads.
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  763. I've been making that joke for the last 10 years. It makes me laugh, but it also hurts my soul.
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  764. There are a lot of companies that depend on a founder (or in National Semi, a re-founder) who is quite successful at first and then fails to move with the times. National Semi seems to be one of these. AMD managed to have a life after Jerry Sanders, for instance. Apple is a unicorn in that one of its founders returned to restore the company not only to success, but to domination. Sporck was too dominant for too long, it appears.
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  765. A like and a comment in support of the channel from me. Keep up the good work!
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  766. There's a book I have about an at the time competing company, Norsk Data, and it has a quite grave 1991 bullet point which reads "ND suffers the same fate as Wang, terminating in-house development of the last of their remaining own products". ND also went belly-up in 1992, after this book was published. There is a striking similarity in how both these two giants crumbled to dust in a record-short time, from the rise of open standards in professional computing (book not only mention PCs, but also puts great emphasis on UNIX-machines and in general standards from the likes of ISO, DIN and ANSI).
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  767. Thank you for bringing this subject to light! Most channels are so Eurocentric and recycle the same content. Having some Asian history and geopolitics is a breath of fresh air. I also like the three part format. I don't usually sit around watching videos for half an hour, so having the option to watch it in parts makes it more convenient. Keep up the good work!
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  768. A Scanner down creates a lot of havoc on the track side as well. It's a rare opportunity to get some work done. Pretty crazy how much info you got in here. It'd be interesting to see what you could say about track dispensing purity and health
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  769. I found this interesting, in the U.K. most family’s Iv found have 3 or 2 children. I’m an only child both my mother and father have 2 other siblings. My grandparents had many siblings. My paternal grandfather being one of 10. My great grandmother was one out of 20 children.
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  770. my father had worked as foreman in NSC (national steel corporation) before, and he retired early before it was bankrupt, he realized that NSC has been mismanage and many employee receiving salary while absent during working hours. gladly my father received separation fee and most of others aren't.
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  771. almost 30k. i remember a few months ago around 10k. keep it up
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  772. Love your videos. The best coverage and in depth review of TSMC anywhere.
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  773. Just wanted to say you are doing a great job on this channel - the subject matter, research, and analysis makes it a really enjoyable watch. Can’t wait till you dive into other industries
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  774. This was REALLY COOL!!!!! I didn't even know you wee in Taiwan. I wonder if you could call them up and ask them to take a tour. A lot of businesses here in the States do things like that, but usually have set times and dates and a limited number of spaces for each. Then they take you through a cool little tour and show you some of the things they do, and at the end they give you a souvenir... but doubt TSMC would be giving out any chips at the end of the tours 😂 Might be worth looking into, I think it would make for a GREAT video, especially if you speak the language since I doubt many English speaking tourists go to Taiwan to tour semiconductor factories LOL :D
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  775. As an expat in Taipei and an employer too. I have come across this discussion a lot. Except for real estate everything else is cheap compared to neighbouring cities like Hong Kong, Shanghai or Seoul. Education, Health care, Electricity, Fuel prices, Public transportation, etc are not expensive in this region. I have lived in Singapore and Hong Kong enough years to understand the difference. And being an employer I understand the difficulty of paying salaries. Almost 80% of the small business owners pay more salary than the income they draw for themselves. This is the truth, If minimum wage is increased again, we will just see more 'shop space for rent' boards as we already see way too many. Also, I wish English teaching expats and youtubers grasp a better idea about this than just say things like the money is not going to the workers. In a fight with big corporations regarding them paying less salary to their employees, small businesses come to their streets along with their families. Taiwanese companies need to pay more salary and Taiwanese businesses have to at least survive.
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  776. Great video! By the way, UMNO is usually pronounced as one word "Umm noh"!
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  777. If you enjoyed this story, its worth reading up on how Huawei grew into a powerhouse through corporate espionage of product lines and R&D from Canada's Nortel Networks and Cisco. In Nortel's case the Chinese government reportedly had complete access to its internal networks for more than 10 years, and was constantly siphoning information (including designs, pricing and product roadmaps). I also highly recommend the book "The Hundred-Year Marathon Book" by Michael Pillsbury. I found it very insightful and well-written. The growth of SMIC and Huawei are such an important lessons for management in the securing of trade secrets. It's safe to say that all large companies are unknowingly having their corporate secrets siphoned away through ongoing corporate espionage (see the recent SolarWinds hack).
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  778. Great video. My mom was born in Macau and I have been to Macau during Portuguese rule and under China.
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  779. Great breakdown on the packaging aspect of it! I’m a tech noob but even I could follow along with that so I appreciate it.
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  780. I remember touring data centers in the late 90's & early 2000's and everything was enterprise Sun architecture as far as you could see in any direction. Floor after floor in each data center of nothing but Sun enterprise 42U racks packed with servers, storage and network stacks. Two years later going through the same places it was all cheap 1U high density Linux Red Hat clusters. The change was pretty dramatic but once IT leaders were convinced that open source was a safe move, they got out of Sun hardware and Solaris software as fast as they could
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  781. 'Mt Kilimanjaro of cash'😃😂😂😂 Hey there guys 👋🏽 From Tanzania here, where Mt Kilimanjaro is found 🇹🇿😊putting that aside, Nice Video, very informing. 🙂
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  782. I'd love videos on Infineon and STMicroelectronics. I also read recently How Asia Works and I'm sure you'll love it too!
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  783. One of the most underrated channels on youtube, keep up the good work
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  784. I think we all noticed and worried. He does sound more like his usual self.
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  785. Sounds like it was a hit event, really glad it wasn't some financial debacle.
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  786. honestly, i'm starting to love modern Taiwan more and more every day.
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  787. I mean I’d watch a video about pencils from Asianometry
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  788. Thank you so much indeed. I can’t wait for these titles. I am starting a new job in a semi conductor company in January. 🤞
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  789. One more informative piece of Taiwan's history. Very good as always.
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  790. As a Denso employee i am definitely feeling this issue every day
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  791. wild seeing oberkochen on youtube! my extended family lives there, it's a really wonderful little village (with a massive zeiss factory on the edge!)
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  792. Your videos are of exceptional quality. Such a great digest and straight to the point. I would love to know how you go about your research when picking a topic and your process from research to scripted video. Very cool thanks!
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  793. 15:38 I was shocked to hear how expensive my grandma's hearing aid was, considering it's basically the same as a set of 50 bucks bluetooth headphones.
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  794. Fantastic video containing a lot of details I wasn't really aware of. Thanks for making this!
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  795. This channel is so fantastic, keep up the good work!
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  796. TSMC Chairman Terry Gou has announced he is dumping all $28B into Gamestop Stock.
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  797. this is really informative! I like how mediatek has grown in the last few years, especially in terms of the 5G technology
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  798. A great movie about the waishengren experience would be the Taiwanese movie, "Paradise in Service." Although told by a native Taiwanese soldier, the life of his drill sergeant shares light about this.
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  799. These history videos are really interesting. Thank you!
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  800.  @Asianometry  To be more precise. Many basic computational algorithms have existed for a long time before GPUs, but their GPU specific implementations are not always known: usually the naive in implementation is very inefficient. Therefore new algorithms are needed for taking the benefits from the processors. ... But yeah, I am just commenting on this because it is kind of something I have to think about every day. I like your videos, and I have learned many interesting things from them. Keep up the good work! :)
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  801. Good video again. I will like to see more videos on the whole chip design/manufacturing process. Thanks
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  802. Love this! Singaporean here!
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  803. The comedy in this episode is gold!
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  804. Very interesting 18 minute video looking at Malaysia's attempts to move up the value chain into semiconductor fabrication. Speaking of Malaysia, I was very surprised to learn how many large and relatively complex appliances (like fridges and air conditioners) are manufactured in South East Asia: Samsung fridges are made in Malaysia, and Mitsubishi Air Conditioners are made in Thailand. Thailand also manufactures mechanical hard drives (eg, Western Digital HDDs). I'm still not sure why the bigger South Korean and Japanese firms chose to outsource to South East Asia over China, but it's great that consumers have a cost competitive alternative from different regions when they decide what to purchase!
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  805. Streaming has lead to big changes (and some big lawsuits) on how actors are paid. Big name talent would normally get a percentage of gross revenues, but that’s impossible to figure out with an all-you-can-eat platform.
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  806. I appreciate your mention of west island a far less important but still interesting part of nz.
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  807. Thank you for making this video. Inexpensive goods have a human cost attached to them, and it is hidden from the consumer intentionally.
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  808. You are a breath of fresh air for my mind. Thank you.
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  809. Great work Asianometry.
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  810. The following is a list of reservoirs in Singapore. There are a currently 17 reservoirs which are designated as national water catchment areas and are managed by the Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Singapore.
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  811. Kudos to your correct pronunciation of Llano. Respect.
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  812. Though nothing technical in this video, somehow it shortens the distance between chips and me. Btw, I was born and grew up in Tainan till my teenage. Tainan in some way is special in Taiwan. Many of my friends like my Taiwanese speaking. They say Tainan folks speak the most elegant Taiwanese 😊. It is also the place Dutch built their colonial government 4 centuries ago. The first real government in Taiwan history. You still can visit the fort and government buildings built by Dutch today. They are very well maintained. And some of my childhood friends have red hair, something from Dutch gene pools.
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  813. About the research, this is something that I'm thinking for some time now. He does a LOT of research AND reading. He keeps pumping these videos at a rapid pace and all with a lot of research that should take some time, with the detail that on topics that I already know a bit he casually drops a lot of information that I rarely see mentioned by other channels covering the same topic. Asianomety is a machine man (or maybe he just knows how to google better?).
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  814. Can you make a video about Mediatek in a future episode ? Love these vids btw
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  815. This story remind me that the conflict in WW2 and the cooperation after WW2 between US and Japan, which proved that human kind is kind enough to forgive the hatred and reach a better future together. Wonderful story.
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  816. This is awesome! I love your channel so much, thank you for your work! I appreciate details like this deeply, because it makes it clear what details of a technology are meaningful and which are just path-dependent idiosyncrasies. The search for tube replacement, the name "transistor" itself, the idea for planar technology and ICs, even the choice of packaging for 4004 - all these details matter, it's the difference between remembering a fact and understanding the causality and meaning of ideas. One more thing that I oftentimes do after your videos is looking up interviews, notes and papers of the people involved, and listen to their direct speech. We're lucky to have many of them captured on film and audio, and many are still alive!
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  817. 1:11 What is the heck is going on with that photo??? Was the miner photoshopped in!!? 😂
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  818. This is an amazing channel. Most of the topics you post are of interest to me and they are well done!
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  819. Man really the first Patron i consider signing up for.
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  820. Your coverage of the silicon tech-sphere is really damn good! I've gotten SO much more gems here than I've been able to scrounge up any where else combined. Thanks a lot! :D
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  821. I worked on several LSI Logic designs when I was employed at Hughes Aircraft back in the day. It was an 8000-gate (6400 usable) chip.
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  822. you should make a vid maybe comparing all the equipment makers like applied klac lam asml etc also one about pat and intel would be cool. also this was a great vid i love these.
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  823. Informative, thanks. Do you have any interest in making videos about Western involvement in Taiwan, eg the French invasion, the Rover Incident, the Dutch, Spanish, and the European treaty ports?
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  824. The puns got an instant like from me.
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  825. The story of the man from Anhui was riveting.
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  826. Truly the level of detailed analysis we've all come to expect from Asianometry
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  827. I'm glad you loved your stay! I live and work in Eindhoven region (I work at the train station). You can realy see the influence of ASML and it's growth on this city. ASML expects if they want to continue their growth the region needs to get 80.000 extra inhabitants in less than 15 years, wich is an insane growth rate for this region. The Eindhoven city council is planning to build 17 more appartment skyscrapers (7 are 100m+) and they will also build a Bus Rapid Transit line to the ASML campus in Veldhoven.
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  828. 5:57 Here are the most important Variable Interest Entities (VIE): 1. Zhejiang Taobao Network Co., Ltd. 2. Zhejiang Tmall Network Co., Ltd 3. Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. 4. Youku Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd I thought I'd write this out because most English speakers would struggle to transcribe the word "Zhejiang"! It might also help with search engine optimization.
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  829. "Humans aren't designed perfectly" My lower back 100% agrees with this statement.
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  830. As a Malaysian, I thank you for giving a fair and objective discussion on this topic. Too often us Malaysians are hard on ourselves and we're too quick to criticise policy failures rather than examining the problem. From your videos, it's enlightening how challenging this industry can be and other nations have also tried and end up in the same boat. Frankly, it's uncanny how much your videos on Taiwan resonate to many of the problems we're facing but at much earlier phases of development. I think one of the problems could also be attributed to a mixed message about local labour or talent. On one hand, development agencies will market how competitive labour costs are. Making labour cost a USP sends a wrong message when you're trying to compete for skilled workers. It's funny to see some employers expect an Ivy League quality hire with $14-16k annual pay package. While many employers are bumping wages to remedy this, it's still nowhere near as competitive and talent retention continues to be a problem. Also, what's less spoken of is the setting of "convoluted priorities" especially when problems have snowballed. You've already noted some evidence of this with the choice for local appointments for Silterra than finding qualified, experienced executives for leadership positions. Coupled with the talent bidding/retention issue as mentioned, it may be the case that red tape and socioeconomic KPIs could have led to interventions on business decisions at the (unintended?) expense of building a viable enterprise. It happens too often problems snowball and Khazanah ends up in a position of trying to fix a leaky ship while juggling pressures to retain jobs, industry capacity etc. It's really unfortunate because Khazanah, as a strategic investor, spends a lot of their capital and brain trust fixing problems which could have otherwise be spent seeding or supporting new growth opportunities.
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  831. Holy cow! Phenomenal story
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  832. New video from YouTube's most underrated channel? Time to stop what I'm doing and watch it :)
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  833. You mentioned Taiwanese contract manufacturing firms Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron, which are used by literally all the companies in the world, from Apple, to Nintendo, to HP etc. There's probably an interesting story as to why most of the world's best electronics assembly firms are based in Taiwan. (Well except for Samsung, which owns and operates all their overseas factories, whilst being competitive with TSMC in semiconductors fabrication and being highly competitive consumer electronics company that happens to be the world-leader in OLED displays and flash memory. Samsung really impresses me by the way)
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  834. ME TOO SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!!
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  835. Your videos are fantastic for such a small channel you have. I am happy you are uploading more frequently but you shouldn't be turning off comments on I guess what you considering more controversial vids. The comment section is the modern day Roman forum. Or at least get a discord server.
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  836. I loved your mixing of institutional history with personal memory of your father role in the semiconductor industry. That makes a historical narrative great.
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  837. Thanks for this. I had no idea the role that Christian missionaries played in ending this terrible practice. I had been under the impression that it was the CCP that did it after they came to power in 1949 using pure brute force and violence to stop it as a purging of China's feudal past. Apparently the movement to stop foot binding started much earlier than that.
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  838. Once again fantastic video! Would love to see how Applied Materials product line is different from Tokyo Electron.
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  839. "Studies have shown that throwing shade can be very effective." As a recent patreon subscriber (this was out on patreon before I supported it), this quote alone makes it worth a year. This feeling of pride for something you've supported, I wonder if this is akin to the feeling you have if your child graduates magna cum laude? This is such consistently good content.
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  840. Well, now that I watched the video I think that after all the chips aren't that expensive comparing how complex they are Amazing video
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  841. Chang sound great. Not only is he 90 years old but he is a very rich 90 years old. Too bad he had to leave so soon. Very intelligent guy!
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  842. Awesome video as always, just a small addition, TSMC 3D stacking don't use micro bumps, they use direct copper bonding. IMHO Intel version is called tiles just for arrogance.
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  843. It's kinda funny. My wife and I used to argue about helping llvm vs asml's market cap (Europe's largest companies) by buying products in their respective areas.
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  844. Amazing video! Thank you! This was so well explained! The quality of research you put in could not have been easy to parse, let alone explain, especially in such a way a dumb dumb like me can even attempt to grasp! Bravo, and thank you! I have always been fascinated by the EUV topic, but have Found it either impenetrable, or incredibly surface level, and lacking the depth and explanation of each step of the process. Then you went even above and beyond by explaining the problems faced at each step in the design history! I don’t even wanna know how many white papers and documents you must have had to go through researching just one of these videos! P.S. On a side note: What was your research process, and how many papers did you have to read on average to write each of these scripts John?! I have become absolutely fascinated by the work involved in your script and writing&research process, almost more than the topic of the videos at this point! Care to share a little bit about that? I’m sure many others would love to know as well! Many subscribers must find the process as astonishing as I do! Thanks again!
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  845. Asianometry finally doing biopic.
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  846. His presentation is simple and straight to the point, also i love how he didn't feel the need to add background music as i always find it distracting
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  847. Of course we should do everything we can to stop money laundering -- especially around drug trafficking and human trafficking -- but whatever fraction of China's mass capital flight that's legitimate should definitely considered foreign direct investment and carefully handled, because anybody with a large amount of money within China understandably wants to get their money out of China as soon as possible. Australia's relatively recent regulations are pretty smart: We have no restrictions on foreigners purchasing new buildings. If you buy a vacant plot of land you must build a dwelling within 4 years (you can't just buy it and hold it). You can only buy and demolish an existing dwelling if you build more buildings than were previously there. Finally, real-estate investment no longer contributes to gaining citizenship. All these things are good because they encourage increasing the housing supply which means housing is more affordable. I know that some places (I believe Vancouver and maybe London) tax empty houses and apartments which should encourage them to be placed on the rental market instead of the cultural preference of leaving the home unoccupied. (Side note: China itself has a massive problem with unproductive ghost cities, so other countries need to be smarter than the CCP in combating this with smart policy). Finally, I should note that after decades of giving permanent residency and citizenship to people with strong Chinese Communist Party viewpoints and associations, Australia has developed massive issues around Chinese Communist Party-linked political corruption, infiltration and bribery (eg, Huang Xiangmo and his family), but that's a separate issue.
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  848. I recall an article on iceberg towing was part of the standardized reading comprehension testing system in the Australian elementary school system. It's such a great science fiction concept!
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  849. Loved the dry humor of that pen joke.😙👌
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  850. I don’t actually know what your name is, but please accept my thanks for your continued excellent analysis and informative videos. It’s greatly appreciated.
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  851. bro lets get a drone and just fly over it ... Something I found funny while checking out the fabs and the TSMC museum in 新竹: the wifi names imply many people living there are super paranoid about hackers 😂 but in general I understand your vibe of "not belonging there" while walking around there. The reality is maybe also a bit less romantic than how we make it out to be. People inside there have to work without internet and with super old hard to use software on windows XP. Compared to the US tech industry the salary is meager and the working hours long.
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  852. This is scary. I get very anxious watching your video about this new technology. Higher numerical apertures, larger mirrors and finer resolution. I have an ancient degree in physics and know a tiny bit about optics. Up until your recent videos I had no idea how, say, 7 nanometer features are built. Seemed impossible. Still does. Yet you're getting bigger fatter larger mirrors to increase the NA angle, among other things. Oh my God. I'm completely serious here. I'm 10 min into the video, paused, and my pulse is going up. Not a joke. I don't know if I'll finish watching it. This is an extraordinary, Herculean technical accomplishment.
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  853. Just discovered this channel keep up the good work.
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  854. The Native Taiwanese, who make up around 84% of Taiwan's population according to official ROC statistics, are ethnically, linguistically, and culturally Han Chinese, based on the official modern definition of this term (the definition which most countries recognise). However, just like Guangdong, Shanghai, Fujian, and other regions of China, Taiwan has historically been home to several native dialects which are related to the official Chinese language, Mandarin, but are still quite distinct from this language. These languages can be broadly grouped up into the "Taiwanese Hokkien" and "Taiwanese Hakka" language families. Even though the Native Taiwanese only diverged from China 100-400 years ago, making them still ethnically Han Chinese, they've still been disconnected from China long enough that most Native Taiwanese no longer have direct family ties to people living in Mainland China (contrary to the situation which we can see between North Korea and South Korea). The Taiwanese are certainly a distinct and localised group within what can be referred to as the "Sinosphere" (ie, regions which are influenced by Han Chinese culture and/or are home to large ethnic Han Chinese populations), and it can be said that the Native Taiwanese are perhaps the most distinct ethnic group in China which is still considered to be a subgroup of the Han Chinese (as opposed to, say, the Tibetans, who live in China but are not considered to be Han Chinese). Culturally speaking, yes, the Native Taiwanese are Han Chinese, though the degree of Native Taiwan's "cultural Han Chinese-ness" is debatable. "Native Taiwan" is certainly culturally distinct from Mainland China and also from "Mainland Taiwan", but this isn't so much a result of radical cultural change in any of these regions as it is the result of slight cultural changes in all of these regions, and significant political changes. The three-way divergence of these three subgroups of the Han Chinese culture, in addition to cultural exchanges between these subgroups and also with foreign ethnic groups, such as the Russians, the Germans, the Americans, the Japanese, and various indigenous peoples, has resulted in three distinct cultures - Mainlander Chinese, Mainlander Taiwanese, and Native Taiwanese, which can all equally trace their heritage to the Qing Dynasty, the state which controlled China prior to the establishment of the Republic of China in Mainland China in 1912. Of course, the People's Republic of China (ie, Mainland China) currently has the strongest claim to being "the legitimate cultural successor to the Chinese Nation-State", given that it is widely recognised as the legitimate government of China. Meanwhile, the Republic of China also claims to be the true cultural successor to the Chinese Nation-State, even though it has clear and sometimes extreme cultural differences in relation to the People's Republic of China. Within the Republic of China, there is a clear cultural divide between the Mainlander Taiwanese and the Native Taiwanese, which has sometimes been perceived to be an ethnic divide between two related but distinct ethnic groups. Some of the Native Taiwanese argue that they have diverged too far from Mainlander Chinese culture to be considered as the same ethnic group. They argue that Japanese influence, as well as Taiwan having been absent from major historical and cultural events in China, such as the Xinhai Revolution, the Chinese Civil War (the beginning of it), the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Communist Revolution, and the Cultural Revolution, etc, have resulted in Taiwan becoming a culturally and ethnically distinct region from China. In fact, the influence of Japan on Taiwan has been minimal, largely due to the fact that the Republic of China quickly set about removing any and all Japanese influences from Taiwanese society as best they could, following the Chinese Annexation of Taiwan. Whilst nearly all Taiwanese people could speak conversational Japanese during the Japanese Colonial Period of Taiwan, the majority of Taiwanese people these days speak Mandarin as their primary language, possibly with a native dialect as a secondary language. However, whilst Japan's presence in Taiwan is no longer strongly felt at a fundamental level, Taiwan is still culturally distinct from Mainland China, to a debatable degree, as a result of Taiwan having not experienced many of the same cultural and historical events, and also as a result of Taiwan having been effectively a separate political entity from (Mainland) China for over a century, beginning from the 1895 handover to Japan, and continuing with the Nationalist Chinese retreat to Taiwan following the Chinese Annexation of Taiwan shortly prior.
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  855. Damn I love this channel!!! I'm excited about them building the plant in the U.S., and I knew it was a $12bn project so I was thinking that was pretty enormous...and while it is, to see how small that is in comparison with the Mega and Giga fabs is just mind-blowing!!! Love your work man, keep em coming!
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  856. As a doctoral student in radio engineering this topic is not too niche...
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  857. Great Video. Extremely excited about this industry and really hope to get involved. Met up with some Cornell scientists and discussed lower-power electronic AI accelerators. This space is ripe for innovation that will lead to 10x improvements in power and inference speed. Amazing stuff out there.
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  858. Your videos are always like attending the classes of a favorite teacher. Thanks!
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  859. I'd love the same analysis with battery industry
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  860. Good overview of an important but low profile company. Thanks
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  861. "If you're not for the party, you're not for China." Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Or communist in this case, I guess.
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  862. Ironically Xi Jinping is starting to bring back some of the Communist iconography on the streets, all the while ramping up the ultra-nationalism. Such a strange regime the CCP is.
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  863. How timely - I just literally started the NAND to Tetris course on Coursera yesterday night specifically because I'm interested in getting into the hardware stuff.
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  864. Another great video. Your grasp of the subject and productivity in making these videos are a big inspiration to me. keep up the good work.
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  865.  @MrPlaneCrashers  He subbed into asianometry's patreon. It has early access to these videos I think.
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  866. pleasant surprise comment from Dr. Ian Cutress!!
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  867. Good stuff and great video! I've been hearing about NOL's bad end for decades so I really appreciate this great summary. It's not a story you would necessarily learn from the Singaporean government. 😆 Loved your unbiased take though, there has been a lot of myth and rumour surrounding NOL's sale and finally this video cleared a lot of that up for me.
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  868. It feels weird watching a history of some of the greatest human acheivements while living through some of its greatest failings. We can be so much better when we work together.
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  869. Micromirror and microaperture arrays are fascinating. One of the NIR spectrometers on JWST has a particularly cool one. And it’s the basis for all of Texas Instruments’ IP on DLP.
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  870. I still wish Thailand would have established 1-2 global car brands from this policy. Would have been a really big national pride. I hope that the next big shift to EVs can help Thailand move up the value chain and eventually establish a global Thai car brand. ICE cars are just so complex and hard to enter the market as a new brand.
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  871. My dads side of the family are Jamaican Chinese and I think I learnt that in Jamaica, most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka. So its possible I have Hakka ancestry
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  872. Damn you are on fire. So many videos in a short period.
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  873. I would suggest perhaps the best thing going for Skywater right now (at least PR wise) is their cooperation with Google and Efabless on the Open Source MPW Shuttle Program. Sure it's on the old 130nm process, but it's a unique opportunity for EE students, professors, and open source/hardware diehards to turn experimental digital (and analog!) ideas into real silicon for basically free.
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  874. Congratulations on 300K subscribers 🎉🎊! Asianometry is one of the first channels I put on Patreon after watching only one of the videos! Thank you so much for the informative, educational videos.
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  875. Could be better visuals. But GREAT VIDEO! Would love to hear about UMC’s current global affairs vs older
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  876. love your video!!. In my opinion corporate culture and values are also crucial. Technology leadership, great business strategies, strong execution, and hiring the best people are factors why Samsung succeed with and without government support. Taiwan had the luck of hitting the jackpot in finding Morris Chang to lead the company. His seemingly cliche values of integrity, trustworthy partnership with customers & suppliers, and technological excellence are big part of TSMC's success today. I have nothing but the highest regard for TSMC
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  877. I always was interested in this part of history!!! Thank you so much for making this video
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  878. Thank you for sharing this information. When I was young, my dad thought me about this company and how the Philippines is suffering in infrastructure since it can no longer make its own steel which should be a basic requirement for industrialization.
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  879. 'It was just a wall.' - asianometry 2020
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  880. I'm mainly hear for the chocolate cake news.
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  881. I love this channel! Keep up the excellent work.
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  882. You are always so straight to the point and it is so calming to watch your videos…
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  883. Like from Russia, love your channel. Too bad our world is heading towards a huge disaster, again. I've Always wanted to visit places like CERN or TSMC... sometimes life is a bitch.
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  884. I'm from Malaysia. You pronounced 'Bumiputera' correctly but 'UMNO' is pronounced here as 'arm-no' but without 'r' sound in the first syllable.
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  885. You are so underrated mate, much love from Australia!
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  886. I'm just amazed by the breadth of topics you're able to cover!
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  887. ​ @gryzman  Asianometry is known for intentionally including glaring errors as a joke and to drive engagement in the comment section
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  888. I love watching your videos. One of the few YouTubers that makes in-depth, good quality content that obviously cares to do a deep dive and show relevant visuals in the video.
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  889. really enjoy your videos, such insights to asia's history and current events that I never heard of!
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  890. A fascinating comparison of hardware and software compute blocks!
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  891. I've only had good experiences w/ Asus notebooks. I've gone through like 3 in 15+ years and not once was it due to an actual problem. I suspect my Win 7 Asus notebook would still run properly if I try to turn it on. My only problems w/ Asus products is w/ their tablets. Tend to crash semi often, even though they run great due to having low amount of crap forcibly installed. I swapped to Samsung but got so annoyed w/ it getting slower on each update.
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  892. Wow this is a fantastically detailed video. Often with this topic you'll just see comments from naive and arrogant Chinese/Americans saying "ah it was all the US", not giving any credit to the ROC/Taiwanese investors and researchers.
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  893. These videos are damn informative, i love them... blessed was the day i found out about this channel and clicked on a video.
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  894. Thanks for making these great videos on topics I didn't know I wanted to know about. Perhaps you can talk about the M2 chip that Apple will be using next?
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  895. This is kinda cool, at uni we use tsmc65 and the kind of NDAs we had to sign to do anything was quite intense. In short taking a screenshot of the software for your notes is already borderline. I just hope that the opensource layout and simulation tools can catch up to the overpriced closed-source industry standards (looking at you Cadence and Synopsys).
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  896. GenZ approved ✅
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  897. There are other aspects of the book, in an addendum to my earlier comment, that make Mao look good in some ways. For example, until late in old age his resilience and physical power - being able to outswim some of his younger guards, while also showing what a risk taker he was, that he risked his own life sometimes for his own exercise gives insight into some of his political decisions. The flippancy for the lives of Chinese is something he sometimes, to his security team's exasperation, displayed for his own. He is also shown as having genuine love and affection for his third wife and Li even notes that the memory of his deceased second wife obviously pains him when it is brought up. But there is also a lot that makes him look bad - Li for example obviously cannot understand why Mao despised the Soviets so much when they treated him like an elder statesman and fawned over him. Mao also increasingly lies as the book goes on, becomes less and less open to criticism. I wouldn't share the opinion that Mao was a sociopath. I think he was a man who had seen a lot of death and suffering, and like you say, had become indifferent to it by the time he was an older man. But I think he did care for certain people as human beings, it's just it became less and less so as he approached his own death - with the unspoken question obviously in his mind of 'what was my entire life for?'
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  898. @Asianometry We too have a problem with reservoir silting in Pakistan. Our major rivers carry a lot of silt for example the Indus and Jhelum. Our 2 biggest dams (Tarbela and Mangla Dams) have been continuously silting hence their reservoir boundaries have to be periodically raised to keep up the storage capacity.
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  899. As someone who works in the semiconductor supply train, well done. We all deal with this exact same scenario everyday. We're the people behind the people behind the scenes, it's a lot of work, and challenging schedules, but it's fun work.
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  900. Fun how you call the High-NA machine "the beast". I remember being in the auditorium when Martin and Peter had their retiring event at the company and Martin would refer to the machine as "the monster". He talked about that every time he'd coordinate the release of a new machine type (Like was done with twinscan and EUV) there would always be some months or even years of issues where the new machine wouldn't function well in some way or another. But in the end it comes to show that if you allow such a thing to happen, and develop through it, you will create a marvel of craft engineering. Glad to see you enjoyed the tour, unfortunately I wasn't aware you were visiting or I'd gladly have tried to take you in some more places.
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  901. In a way, he got his wish for immortality. Reminds me of that quote that's often misattributed to Banksy: "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and again when your name is mentioned for the last time" Also it's interesting to see how experimenting with dubious/dangerous potions in traditional Chinese medicine goes back thousands of years.
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  902. Another well researched and informative video. Here's a comment for the YouTube algorithm.
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  903. Me: "Mirror Mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?" Zeiss Mirror: "I am." Me: "That you are."
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  904. You tell in a simple way so many interesting things about Taiwan, You deserve many more subscribers. Glad I've found Your channel :)
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  905. Hi form Malaysia!
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  906. Fucking hell, this channel is gonna blow up. Calling it at 7k subs. Hope you're making it a point to upload the content in every platform. I'd do Odysee, Bitchute, Vimeo, etc, Reddit tech boards, even as far as 4chan's tech board and making torrents of this stuff and putting it up on tpb. I expect this channel to do well.
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  907. Why the Han though? Why not the Qin? Or the Zhou? Given how important Zhou was to the development of Chinese culture why is it identification with the Han?
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  908. Thanks for the good summary research studies! btw, boe’s mark cap is 200b rmb, not dollar..
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  909. Great topic! Sun is definitely one of the forgotten tech companies of yesteryear. Sun machines were a bit like Silicon Graphics machines or SNK's NeoGeo if you were into videogames. Cool, high tech machines that you knew existed "somewhere", but that you practically never came into intact with. I still remember how cool it felt seeing a whole room of them when I went to uni for my first semester. Can we get a special on DEC and the Alpha microprocessors next?
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  910. My great grandma is Punti from Hong Kong. Her family were from Guangdong. After she was born in Hong Kong they immigrated to Hawai'i.
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  911. Thanks for sharing!! Too proud to be a Hakka from Malaysia.
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  912. Thank you, you're the best. Macau always gets overlooked.
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  913. Wonderful video....can you please make a video about the hardware and software suppliers in the semiconductor industry like Lam research, applied materials, Synopsys and ASML...etc
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  914.  @Asianometry we all love you
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  915. Fabulous history and your research is brilliant.
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  916.  @Baulder13  From what he said previously he doesn't know much about the stuff - he "just" researches topic very in depth. Those scientific papers that he shows - you can be certain the he reads all of them and more. I wish I could research like him. That takes a lot of practice and helluva brain to understand it all. Regardless - this is one of the best channels when it comes to both Semiconductor/Technology/Industry part of the world AND political/economy part of the world. He focuses mostly on pacific area (duh - Asianometry) and what is important there. But silicon industry is one of the most important parts of Asia's strength.
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  917. It's your videos that are cool: simple, short, informative and objective. You help your viewers understand China - not to condemn or fawn over it - but to understand it.
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  918. Clicked so hard I almost break the screen on my phone.
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  919. Excellent video! I think your comparison of chip design and web development is mostly valid. I used to work in the dram business, and respins were the rule rather than the exception. Analog circuits have infinite degrees of freedom, and are very difficult to simulate perfectly. First time right is much more achievable with a pure logic chip.
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  920. I'm assuming that the cat-egory of 'cat' includes both fluffy ones and those waving ones, right? I'd never really considered the economic impact of of feline populations. Is it a propinquity or density dependent impact? Is it a positive externality? Is it an externality at all? So many questions
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  921. Thankyou for videos like these. You'll eventually receive a lot more attention. I hope commenters are respectful.
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  922. The narrative has got more exciting!
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  923. I work at asml, would have loved to meet you there!
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  924. Enjoy listening to your essays immensely, this will be a good one for sure. May I suggest looking into and making a video on ROCAF pilots that fought in Yemen? Thanks!
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  925. Your work is outstanding. When a new video appears, I stop what ever am doing to watch it. I have lived in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Philippines and have learned so much from your videos that I did not know. One small comment, and since I am a somewhat new viewer, maybe I have missed it?? But I would be interested in seeing these same kind of videos on both Thailand and Philippines (which I may have missed???) if you get the time.
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  926. I’m an American who lived in Taiwan 2 years and was on Taiwan’s insurance. I love Taiwan and miss its wonderful insurance.
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  927. It's one of the best things about Taipei. As a visitor, you can spend days just visiting places accessible by train. It would be good to mention the gondola also. Though a little expensive compared to the train system it is more of a leisure activity I would say, unless you actually live somewhere like Maokong. I would gladly take it again to enjoy the view on the way to a mountain tea house. The Wenhu line is also really interesting to ride to get to the gondola. I'm usually in Zhongli when visiting, so can take the MRT to airport to save a few bucks, or to the HSR to get to Taipei in style for just a few dollars or another city. The regular train system is about as fast for that short distance but it's crowded. Thanks for the video, never apologize for sharing your interests. Some out there definitely will appreciate it.
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  928. Good reminder to look to the future and not be too suckered into the flavor of the month, lol
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  929. Fun fact: Sun Yat-Sen was exiled for a while in Macau and received inspiration from Portuguese Republicans and their October 5, 1910, revolution via the Macau local section of Portuguese republicans.
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  930. I don't remember anyone calling the company by its full name - it was always just Nat Semi. And Bob Widdler was the Hunter S Thompson of analogue - widdlerising failed components with a large hammer has been a standard technique at a couple of places I worked. I've met a few of the heroes from the Valley's golden era, but I'd swap any five for an evening in a bar with him.
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  931. Having spoken to Germans who lived through WWII they put it well. "Back in 1939 when the war started, when they had fought in Poland. You knew history was being made. Of course we thought it was another history. But our daily life didn't change. Life went on at the homefront. You couldn't influence the front, so you kept going. We had kept going in 1940, and 41, and 42, and, and 43, and 44. Then in early 45 the Americans came. And life went on and we kept going."
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  932. China private space companies need massive fund support from Chinese government like what NASA supporting spacex.
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  933. You're quickly becoming one of my favorite channels now!
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  934. your last statement about how funny some critical industries depended on a single plant reminded me of how whale oil used to be lubricant for cars. very nice video btw
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  935. In addition to the other good things people are saying I wanted to add a personal note on the importance of your videos. I made a choice to watch your videos and patron you. Considering I never thought I had choice before this is a big deal for me. Your videos are like reading a great magazine back in the late '80's/early '90s when I was trying to make sense of the world. Your videos are like those feature articles. Your focus on what interests you and how you boot strap people into the videos is remarkable. You presume that people who click are interested themselves and can pick up the loose threads. You don't convince people on what you think should be interesting, you are sharing what you've found. I'm glad you share. It helps me deeply as I learn to reclaim my sense of curiosity. Before I go too parasocial with you... your subtle humor hits me so hard. The picture of a computer booting dos on a CRT and it was using comic sans... devastated me with a humor so hard that I had to pause the video. Okay - enough gushing. Thank you again.
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  936. Oh wow, 600k subs! Congrats! I hadn't realized that you're close to 500 videos, making it a gold mine of content and knowledge. I even got some of my elderly parents to enjoy your Soviet and Germany computing videos.
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  937. Thanks for the video. I’m Hakka but never learn to speak it. Looking forward to more videos.
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  938. Your channel deserves so much more popularity!!!
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  939. I've visited the Hayashi Department Store in 2017. It was like stepping back in time. Kudos to those who restored the building. They even have an exhibit with a replica of the original elevator.
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  940. Thank you so much for this excellent chapter of hightech history. This is a relatively unknown relationship between Philips and TSMC. I know Philips history quite well that it was once the archrival of Sony during its golden era. Over the last few decades Philips had retreated from many sectors including CE, semiconductor components, and test and measurement equipment. Now it has nothing more than medical equipment division.
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  941. Plasmonics is pretty exciting, has the potential to bring this stuff down to the nanoscale
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  942.  @puffman06  They will be Carbonlisted.
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  943. One video idea you could do is the history of the Taiwanese aborigines and how they lived before the island became majority Han. That'd be an interesting topic to explore.
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  944. I have been watching you since 2000 subscribers. Great video and look forward for next ones.
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  945. Thanks for this vid, I wish it had been around when I first got to Taiwan. People tried to explain this concept and provide context to me, but with the language barrier, and the fact that I was too young and hot blooded to sit still and listen for too long, it was lost on me for a long time.
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  946. I worked in Vaccine manufacturing and is habituated with cleanroom. Surprisingly, the ASML cleanrooms loosk surprisingly 'familiar' to me.
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  947. Great video Jon! I never heard of costal reservoirs and yet they seems to be quite widespread. My country, Italy, has mainly mountain reservoirs but it's very hard to scale this solution as you correctly pointed out. This year it was a mess and we are going to need some kind of solution for the future.
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  948. Always high point of the day when you post. Thank you so much
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  949. I've recently been reading the very interesting book "Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm" which talks about how to extract the basic chemical that power our world (like nitric acid and potassium) from boiling trees in a pot and distilling the steam. I love the topic so much. It's so "steampunk" and takes high school chemistry to the next level!
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  950. Why not do a series on the history of semiconductor chip fabrication machines? Very similar to this video but the history of each machine leading up to current processes.
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  951. I on the other hand wonder how YouTube and short video will continue to shape traditional shows. Age wise I might even be considered a gen X, but consistent YouTube watching made me absolutely allergic to padding. And this trend will only grow as younger generations keep preferring shorter and shorter videos
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  952. I love your industrial policy videos, more of these please
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  953. Fantastic DD as always Asianometry, Super impressed with how much detail youve gone into here . Long $ASML!
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  954. I programmed and supported Unix/Linux systems professionally from 1980 until 2021...Of the dozens of Unix/Linux hardware/software varieties that I worked with, I liked Sun the best (extremely stable)...I like to say that "Solaris put my daughters through college" and in my personal Linux-based home lab, I use ZFS to manage my storage...The largest server type I ever configured myself, was a set of Sun E6900s (perhaps $800K in ~2005 dollars , 1,200 lbs per server).
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  955. It's a great place for a run, almost like sun moon lake
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  956. I really like that you always jump straight into the topic
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  957. I can't even watch the video right now because I have work tomorrow but I came here to say the same thing This man is a treasure I hope he is ok
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  958. Very good. Drones seem to have huge potential in many areas. They seem much simpler than aircraft that need a crew. With non-military use, the technology is almost generic. The company history is fascinating, with great ideas coming out of left field but the development has taken decades. An idea before its time realised with new technologies.
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  959. I think they pronounce it "TEMS" because that's how King George the First, who could not speak English well, pronounced it, and since what the King says it right, that how it's been pronounced since. In any event, this was a fascinating video. Thank you for posting it.
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  960. Did you turn a profit? A lot of conventions I feel are just to get the organizers to turn a profit, and of course for the attendees to network, as it's often paid by their company, not their own pocket.
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  961. The tsmc reference in the beef growing area 😂
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  962. Honestly, I've felt for quite some time that with some senior legacy-nodes coupled with some slick coding quite a few modern day things could take place (especially as some people start using dumb phones instead of smart ones). I hadn't assumed I was the first or foremost by a long shot, but it's nice to see it actually take place. 👍🏾 Another great video. 👌🏾
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  963. More outstanding work jon. thank you.
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  964. I actually live in Taiwan,so this is very interesting to me...
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  965. I was discussing this issue with some bitcoin miners just earlier today and I pointed them to your channel as they were sure high GPU prices would carry on for at least two years. Based on what I have seen on your channel I didn't buy it given the massive capital expenditure by TSMC in 2021. Your writing is so good and well informed on these complex topics melding geopolitics, technology and economics. Are you a trained journalist or journalism student?
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  966. My father John D Ishii was one of them . US Military Intelligence Then 25 years in the CIA during the Vietnam War. He was at camp Savage Mi
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  967. love your stuff! take it easy and hope you have a healthy & fulfilling next year.
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  968. After this grim summary I think I'll table my plans to enter the global milk market.
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  969. It’s 1:30 where I live and instead of sleeping, I am watching a video about a shoemaker in Taiwan. Strange world
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  970. Singapore 4th desalination plant :- New Keppel Marina East Desalination Plant, which treats both sea and reservoir water. The plant can treat about 30 million gallons a day (mgd), or up to 7 per cent of Singapore's daily water needs of about 430mgd Guess all future desalination plants in Singapore will be able to process both sea and reservoir water at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJu8uPlxK3Y
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  971. "The chip hipsters" is the phrase of the week. Thanks for the chuckle! :D
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  972. I also find stupid for a coffee company to be focused on caféine and not on taste, cakes, etc... . Energy drinks full of caffeine were born in Asia, and they conquered the world. Redbull story is kind of fascinating.
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  973. Hey Asianometry, great video! Can you do a video on Apple and its (so far very successful) transition to ARM and strict vertical integration? How can a company in 2022 become successfully vertically integrated, is this a temporary fad, and how is the industry moving ahead with regards to this?
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  974. Yeah, narrator Dude needs to come out of the shadows and beat his chest. Knowledgeable narratives, with comprehensible analysis. Way beyond usual Net kibble.
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  975. Very good on the industrial ecology of luxury goods. One of my Australian friend's mid-30s son was working as a men's shoe designer for Louis Vuitton in Paris.
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  976. Hello! What a very well put together video I’m very impressed. I currently work for trumpf on the co2 drive laser. Ive sent this video to the recruitment agency who hired me they always send applicants videos like this to prep before hand
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  977. 4:55 It's probably worth doing a video on KT Li. He seems like a key politician in Taiwan's economic success. I'll go have a read of his Wikipedia page.
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  978. John , thank you for another brilliant video . Philips has a very interesting history indeed . A lot of people remember the old Sony Walkman but Philips was actually the developer of the cassette tape . Philips was also a major player with LG in flat screen tv technology. They had their fingers in every pie !
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  979. Great video! This was just what I was looking for. For anyone interested in further study of Sino-Japanese relations in the first half of the 20th century, I highly recommend Barbara W. Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece Stillwell And The American Experience In China. I promise you it will blow your mind. In fact, anything by Tuchman will always be the best book you've ever read. (No, I'm not Barbara Tuchman)
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  980. Really enjoy following along as you explore different topics going on in the tech world and beyond. Thanks!
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  981.  @Asianometry  Oh yeah that's totally fair. I was thinking it would probably be a nightmare to get any to actually come on and be frank about stuff. I can only imagine how hard your research portion is as it goes now! Love the videos man, I get hyped everytime I see a notification.
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  982. Nice video man, I can see that it was done with heart and love, truly saddening are these events
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  983. Should have bought TSMC stock when you did the first video :-/
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  984. Amazing detailed content! Keep going mate
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  985. Who knew! I have been online for 25 years and everything in this video is new to me. Thanks. I am getting drawn in - newsletter and Patreon might have to happen soon!
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  986. I have come across similar ethno-supremacist views on Reddit (r/Sino, r/AznIdentity and the related subreddits). I've seen comments on these subreddits strongly lean towards Han and Asian ethno-supremacy ideas, and funnel users to exclusive/private Discord chatroom if proof of racial identity is provided. Reddit bans subreddits which promote hate speech, but discussions on private Discord servers are of course much harder to police. It's hard to know if such corners of the internet are run by state-funded internet troll farms or just private citizens who hold extreme views. I should mention this is especially worry because disaffected or mentally ill people can radicalize themselves -- such as Elliot Rodger who committed the 2014 Isla Vista killings.
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  987. Just watched like 6 of your videos straight. I’m an analyst myself and this is real high quality content. Keep it up !
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  988. Your videos are always on such interesting and underexplored areas! Keep working on the quality and I think you'll do incredibly well
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  989. This channel was an undiscovered gem when I found it, so glad to see you're popping off. Totally deserved man
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  990. I personally appreciate the tilt towards audio. I am often watching/listening on the go - I can listen and travel, not so much for watching. It's critical to me that the main value is captured in the audio, with visuals being a value add. I feel this channel is already doing this great.
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  991. Only 10% cat?
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  992. Found it. Just what I like to watch about
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  993. Big thanks for all your work. Essays like yours make this platform for me. YouTube should have an initiative on better revenue sharing for educational content. The work you and a few others do is invaluable.
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  994. Could you do a video on led chips and the manufacturing machine makers in the industry. It's all very shrouded in mystery how the actual chips are made and divided, seemingly anyway. Very good video btw, exceptional exposition.
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  995. Great insightful video! And a nice message at the end to boot. I've been watching a lot of videos in your series and really enjoying them - keep up the great work!
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  996. Holy smokes! I'm Taiwanese, visited Qian Dao Hu and had no idea about this incident. Thank you for shining a light on this for those of us who are in the dark.
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  997.  @Asianometry I've been watching your videos since almost the beginning. I know it sounds weird but I feel like I know you. The videos give me joy. Please keep making them and I hope you feel better❤
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  998. ​ @Asianometry Hey man. I don't know what you are going through but I do know that you make a lot of people happy everytime you upload a new video.
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  999. The world needs more people like yourself
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  1000. Nice job covering this important topic.
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  1001.  @Baulder13  I agree! Jon is in a league of his on in this field.
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  1002.  @Baulder13  Agree, this guys breadth of knowledge and research ability, plus the fact he can present it to many of us non-PhD's is unique.
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  1003. Thanks for referring my video!
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  1004. 2:53 7 great temples? Sounds likes The Legend of Zelda. I can't find any reference that Tofukuji is part of 7 temples other than the "Five Mountain" temple concept: 5 in Kyoto (Kyoto Gozan) and 5 in Kamakura, Kanagawa.
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  1005. This is one of the best videos in your channel. At least, it’s one of my favorites. 😊
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  1006. It would have been one of the world's most apocalyptic and, in a way "crude", battles since the Taiping rebellion. Well done on explaining the differences between Hainan and Taiwan.
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  1007. This should be made into a web series
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  1008. Excellent as usual. It's hard not to feel sorry for those guys too.
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  1009. The west part of the island state is dominated by Petrochemical industry specialized in oil refinery right after independence, it had been a high revenue generator for Singapore ever since. Ease of loading into tankers at the port and quick to export. 😁
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  1010. Just throwing this topic idea out: Taiwan and population demographics (which is related to fertility rate and immigration). Taiwan didn't have the One Child Policy, but they have birth rates similar to Japan/South Korea/Singapore. Will the country grow old like Japan? Taiwan is the most socially progressive nation is Asia (eg, legalized same-sex marriage). If there's any nation that might throw open their doors to Australia-level of educated migrants (other than maybe Singapore) I feel like it would be Taiwan. Is Taiwan going to sleep walk its way off demographic cliff like the rest of Asia?
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  1011. Very Very Interesting, as my wife is from Taiwan and her parents are from Zhejiang Province in China. Her parents went to Taiwan on their honeymoon in the 1950's, but were told not to go back to China as the situation was too unstable for them. Her father never returned to China, but if the truth is known, he would have had a better life in Taiwan.
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  1012. Thanks for the video Jon 👍👍
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  1013. That this channel only has 17K subs is a travesty. One of my favorite channels for semiconductor industry and South East/East Asia topics.
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  1014. Thanks John :) This was really interesting!
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  1015. I mentioned it to you in online correspondence already but I'd love to see a video on Patrick Soon-Shiong, arguably the most famous Chinese South African there is, and his contribution to cancer research.
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  1016. You should do a video about Chinese-Jamaicans
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  1017. Thanks for a great video. You got a new subscriber. :=)
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  1018. Yes, life is complex and to get new ideas leisure time is important. Maybe take a trip to Dulan near Taitung?😙 Anyway I have two ideas: What about renewables(water, solar, wind and geothermal) in Taiwan and why traffic in Taiwan is so car centric.
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  1019. Well Done Mr. Jon Y. See! Your research work in this sector would be very well received! I am your follower now.
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  1020. The videos you make are always extremely well researched and presented. I always feel that I learn a ton after watching them
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  1021. You are spot on, companies are willing to forgo short term blips in supply because the managers are all transient so willing to take the risk their bonus will be based on the positive cycle. If you are a manger caught in the negative blip you can always blame the previous management. End result is exactly what we have today
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  1022. "This is not a scientific diagram. Please don't come at me" Subscribed.
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  1023. I enjoy the calm and thoughtful tone that use in your videos. You are easy to listen to and I always learn something. Thanks for what you do - have a happy and safe new year.
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  1024. Your channel is one of the best I watch, and I'm highly selective of the content I follow. Me and my colleagues are always trying to keep up with the crazy lithography engineering, and you're our main reference. Thank you so much, and cheers from Brazil
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  1025. Did you get a new mic? Your voice has more depth than usual.
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  1026. Ever thought about doing a video about the Taiwanese Aboriginals? It’s interesting how they always vote for the KMT because they view the DPP as a Hoklo supremacist group which has attempted to appropriate indigenous status through so-called "blood nationalism" (claiming they are different from mainland Han because they may have an Aboriginal grandmother and so they are just as “native” as the Aboriginals, like white colonialists in the United States who claimed native American ancestry even if it was often untrue and they continued to violently oppress native Americans but they did so to distance themselves from Britain and justify their ownership of indigenous land). While the KMT are more “practical” (a focus on business), emphasize a pan-Chinese identity which pushes down Hoklo chauvinism and they do not appropriate Aboriginal identity (instead some will say they are not true Taiwanese because only indigenous people should be seen as that which has been positively received by Taiwanese Aboriginals; similar to how many non-native Hawaiians will say they are not actually Hawaiians because only native Hawaiians are true Hawaiians). In a contrast to many Taiwanese Hoklo, the Aboriginals also prefer KMT rule over the Japanese rule that came before and the Hoklo-dominance before that. Despite the KMT's assimilation efforts on them, they also improved infrastructure and built effective support networks for Aboriginal communities. The Aboriginals have always had terrible relations with the Hoklo (but comparatively okay relations with the Hakka and waishengren) and the Japanese committed numerous pogroms against Aboriginals so many Aboriginal people hold anti-Japanese sentiments which further aligns themselves with the KMT. To them, cross-strait relations hold very little importance because either option of Taiwan being independent or reunited with mainland China would be the same - they will be ruled by a Chinese majority.
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  1027.  @Asianometry  How the Taiwanese people lived under Japanese rule. I've heard that Taiwan has a less pessimistic memory of their time under Japanese control, which is in contrast to how basically the rest of East Asia looks back on Japanese Imperialism. How did they react to coming under Japanese control? How were they treated and how did this change their lives and influence their culture over 50 years? What happened when the Japanese left and they anticipated reuniting with China (before the Nationalists fled there and the island remained politically separate from the mainland)?
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  1028. I agree with you that the flaky poly-silicon looks really cool 😎
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  1029. How does one clean the containers that stores ULTRA PURE WATER ?
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  1030. Aborigine is pronounced like "a-bo-ridge-uh-nii". Otherwise great video. I'm intrigued now. Subscribed.
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  1031. Excellent video once again. Thank you for sharing.
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  1032. Incredible video! I would say it's your best one until now. It's nice how you went super deep in the subject (for a youtube video) keeping everything clear. Props. Keep up the good work.
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  1033. I love your videos. They are so entertaining to watch and the topics are interesting aswell.
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  1034. Slowly becoming my favourite channel on youtube. Been here since the beginning 👌
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  1035. "Cost inflation for semi conductor processes are very real". This would be for all entities in this industry or only tsmc's high end work? Would love to hear a video on this aspect. Thank you for the tsmc videos.
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  1036. i met some of the TSMC engineers a little while back. they are far far ahead... some of the most clued up i've ever met. back in the day i was heavily into CPU architecture & design.
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  1037.  @Asianometry  Seems like ,dammed if they do or dammed if they didn't. Hope the body count is low .
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  1038. just came across this channel. really well done!
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  1039. Yes, it was quite common for Chinese people who had fled to Taiwan to later migrate to the United States. Prospects in Taiwan were not looking too good, given how crowded it was and also given the threat of an invasion by the Chinese Communists. As a result, many "Waishengren" Taiwanese migrated to the United States in the decades following the retreat of the Nationalists to Taiwan; most emigrants from Taiwan were well-educated Waishengren, rather than "Benshengren" (Native Taiwanese), and they sought countries like America due to the greater civil liberties, the higher quality of education, and the greater amount of opportunities.
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  1040. FPGAs always have fascinated me. So counter intuitive to print, plug, and play standardization of tech industry. Thanks for the video!
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  1041.  @Asianometry  gift giving is common in China, and it does build '关系'. The point I'm making is that there is a lot more to 关系 than just gift giving. Really enjoying your videos, keep up the good work!
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  1042. Hey, I loved your shoe video! Keep doing what you find interesting: your audience will get catch up over time. Think of the semiconductor videos as the gateway into broader economics, manufacturing, and supply-chain videos. Never thought I’d be fascinated by supply-chains (for example), but here we are. 😄
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  1043. Yup. Jon doesn't "milk the content", which is why his videos are almost always my first pick of the day. He only gets to "yield the throne" for Clickspring and Bad Obsession Motorsport, but since I'm lucky if I get 4-5 episodes a year from them he generally sits quite comfortably on the royal chair :P
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  1044. Most of your videos had covered existing state of art technologies so is great to have one on up coming technologies like advanced EUV technology. It would be great to have a video comparing performance of various nodes and from different vendors. Given that fabs are obfuscating the definition of geometry size (ie Intel 10nm is equivalent to TSMC 7nm) it would be good to understand the true dimensional size and how each technology scale in size/power/performance especially into the 5/3/2 nm nomenclature.
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  1045. I like how Taipei MRT kind of shares form-factor with Hong Kong MTR and Singapore MRT. Similar profile trains run on Bangkok's MRT/skytrain network and KL's MRT omg trainss
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  1046. Why was part 3 released just before part 1?
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  1047. Malaysia definitely has a lot of potential and not short of talents. A lot of high ranking veteran in semiconductor arena are Malaysians.
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  1048. Another great video from Asianometry! Keep up the good work!
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  1049. Excellent explanation of this critically important company and industry.
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  1050. Just realized that I've been consuming this channel's content for quite some time now and didn't even know I wasn't subscribed. Fixed that and added a patreon sub to make it up to you, thanks.
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  1051. Hey just want to say, like the videos that you make, and I'm catching up on your archive of videos on China. I'm from the UK, not from Asia, so not there to see it for myself, but still enjoy the videos anyways
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  1052. This is my favorite company! Thank you for this awesome review, and for the information, you provide on semiconductors.
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  1053. Perhaps you could discuss this topic, but about Taiwan.
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  1054. its like 3d software and other graphics software... a while back in college i thought it was kind pointless for me personally to learn Maya(and i was right), since its way too freaking expensive for me to further improve my skills when my student license runs out, same goes for photoshop. now the blender and gimp replacements were a bit rough around the edges but they were free long after my discounted school license ran out. + looking back now i had 0 chance of getting hired for Maya after school since even though the asked a lot from us for a passing grade, it was not even close to being enough compare to what the industry expects of you.
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  1055. I agree video addiction is a real problem. I had a divorcee friend who 13-year-old, who I tried to help with English, who finally gave up and she sent him back to his father in China. His father sent him to one of those "boot camps" where the instructors killed him, I don't know the details, but I think they won their case against the boot camp. Of course, I don't prod, it is such a tragedy. The failure isn't in the video games but in the rehabilitation institutions for these unfortunate young people. I've known alcoholics and this I've seen with this life, ended all too soon, as just as powerful an addiction.
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  1056. My new favourite channel. Looking forward to catching up on what you've already released and your future videos :).
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  1057. 8:15 MAC diagram, you won my heart. This channel motivates me to keep learning and researching and never give up regardless of how many failures. You are a true person who understands affection with technology. Cheers ✨✨
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  1058. The arbiter is definitely the best arbiter of arbitration. Also I'm really enjoying your videos
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  1059. Very interesting. Thank you for that video.
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  1060. Hello! I've been following your channel for a while and i really like the information you are sharing in your videos. I would love to explore more on this kind of topics, but i really dont know where to start. Are you willing to share your sources in the future?
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  1061. Very good as always. A good explanation of how graphics cards work and how they have evolved.
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  1062. Nice video! Suggested video: the decade that Intel spent stagnating and how the AMD processors have forced it out of stagnation and whether Intel will actually be able to continue to compete in the future or just go back to its old business model of driving its competitors out of business with its size.
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  1063. The analogy at the end is really good and funny lol
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  1064. I love this channel, I don’t know why but I’m very interested in the semiconductor industry. And your videos are super insightful.
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  1065. The problem with Taiwan is that it is large, homogeneous (there are two main ethnic groups in Taiwan), and has a long history as a distinct region, unlike Macau and Hong Kong. Whilst Macau is an international city of business (and quite a small city for Chinese standards), being mostly known for its gambling industry and attracting many rich Mainlander Chinese and foreigners, and whilst Hong Kong is also an international city which hosts many international businesses and is home to a large immigrant population, consisting of wealthy Europeans, South Asians who were brought over during British colonial times, an indigenous Chinese population, and a large population of recent Chinese immigrants from Guangdong (who came to Hong Kong to escape poverty or persecution), Taiwan is not an internationally renowned destination, Taiwan has a huge population of indigenous Chinese residents (though, 14% of the population of Taiwan are recent Chinese immigrants), and Taiwan is an entire Chinese Province, not just some small city full of rich immigrants and Chinese refugees; additionally, Taiwan has been administered separately from other regions of China for around 340-360 years, though it was only proclaimed as an independent province from Fujian in 1885. So, why is it so difficult for China to reclaim, or, more accurately, annex Taiwan? Is it because Taiwan is an American puppet, propped up by American guns? Or is it because Taiwan is controlled by the Kuomintang, with aims to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party and take control of all of China? Or is it because Taiwan is full of brainwashed Fujianese people who believe that they are a separate ethnicity from the Han Chinese? Well, actually, it is all of these things to some extent, though this doesn't explain the whole story, and these accusations are quite biased and hurtful. No, there is a major reason why Taiwan is still independent from China, and it is none of these reasons which I have listed. Unlike Macau and Hong Kong, Taiwan is not controlled by a foreign government. With Macau and Hong Kong, agreements on Sovereignty were the responsibility of external powers, those being China, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. On the other hand, this was only the case for Taiwan when it was under the control of the Japanese Empire, and even then, Japan had been ceded the territory of Taiwan in perpetuity, and this is why Japan conducted assimilation campaigns against the Taiwanese people whilst Taiwan was under its control, intending to permanently integrate Taiwan into Japan, politically, culturally, and ethnically. Meanwhile, concerning modern Taiwan, the modern Republic of China almost exclusively administers Taiwan, so the issue of giving up Taiwan is not just a cession of a single region but a cession of the ROC's entire Sovereignty, which is why it is not likely to happen in the near future. While it is true that the Kuomintang, the former rulers of the ROC, have in recent history decided to align themselves with the Chinese Communist Party and now believe that Taiwan must be reunited with China under the rule of the CCP, given that it is unrealistic for the KMT to reunite Taiwan with the Mainland under its own rule, Taiwan is still independent. And, the primary reason for Taiwan's Independence is that the Taiwanese people themselves - not the recent Chinese immigrants but rather the indigenous Chinese residents - want some form of independence or autonomy, whether that is "De Jure Independence" or "De Facto Independence". These people have been living in Taiwan for hundreds of years. They have experienced life under various regimes, but throughout all of these regimes, they have never lost their Taiwanese identity. And their Taiwanese identity didn't originally pertain to the idea that Taiwan is an independent country; instead, the Taiwanese people have always identified with the island of Taiwan, at one time "Taiwan Prefecture of Fujian Province, China", at a later time "Taiwan Province of China", at a later time "Taiwan Dependency of Japan", and at a later time "Republic of China (Taiwan)". Whilst the Mainlander Chinese, both the actual Mainlanders and the Mainlanders in Taiwan alike, love to refer to the Taiwanese as "Fujianese (and Hakka) immigrants in Taiwan", this designation is blatantly false. Ask yourself; does a Shanghainese person refer to himself as a Zhejiangese immigrant in Shanghai? No, he identifies as Shanghainese because that is his province. Likewise, the Taiwanese people are NOT Fujianese, at least not anymore. Nowadays, most Taiwanese people identify as Taiwanese, regardless of whether they believe that they are independent or not, and they only consider Fujian to be a distant ancestral homeland, rather than their own current homeland. Of course, the Hakka do often identify as Hakka, rather than as Taiwanese, but this is because the Hakka have never possessed their own province, whether in Taiwan or in Mainland China, and identify with the Hakka culture rather than with a hypothetical "Hakka Province". So, clearly, there does exist a distinct Taiwanese identity, even though the Chinese Communist Party and Kuomintang love to ridicule this identity, referring to the Taiwanese as mere Fujianese migrants. The only question of Taiwanese identity is whether the Taiwanese are a subgroup of the Han Chinese, or whether they are an independent ethnic group. Critically, the history of Taiwan is unique amongst regions of China; Taiwan was colonised only in (relatively) recent history by China, starting from 1683; though, Han Chinese people from Fujian Province began migrating to Taiwan in large waves during the early-1600s, to work for the Dutch East India Company and for the Kingdom of Tungning. Taiwanese people, for the first 2-3 centuries of living in Taiwan, experienced life as frontiersmen, expanding the territory of China by Sinicising the indigenous Austronesian natives and by increasing the population of Han Chinese on the island. Originally identifying as Fujianese, these people eventually came to identify as Taiwanese, and this identity was cemented through the shared experience of living in Taiwan as immigrants for hundreds of years, separated from China by the Taiwan Strait, and trying to adapt to life in a isolated island full of indigenous tribes and deadly diseases. In 1885, the Qing Dynasty proclaimed Taiwan to be its own independent province, separate from Fujian Province. Of course, Taiwan had already effectively been separate from Fujian since China had begun colonising the island, given that Taiwan and Fujian were separated by the large Taiwan Strait. The proclamation of an independent "Taiwan Province" was not very remarkable; life in Taiwan continued as normal, and most people did not care whether Taiwan was its own Chinese province or not; they mainly identified with the island of Taiwan, loosely identifying as ethnically Han Chinese (in the same way that the American settlers from the United Kingdom would primarily identify as American). Of course, shortly after the 1885 declaration of Taiwanese province-hood, Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895. The Taiwanese people initially resisted the Japanese invasion, with local militias defending Taiwanese villages, and with high-ranking Qing-loyalists proclaiming "the Democratic State of Taiwan". Regardless of self-identification and beliefs, the various ethnic groups on the island, which consisted of various Chinese peoples, such as the Hoklo Taiwanese, the Hakka Taiwanese, and the Mainlander Chinese officials stationed in Taiwan, as well as the various indigenous Austronesian tribes, all tried to defend Taiwan from a foreign Japanese invasion, and they resisted Japanese rule for a period of time after China ceded Taiwan to Japan. However, eventually, these people were defeated, and Japan gradually began to absorb Taiwan into its territory, such as by educating the Taiwanese in the Japanese language (this programme took several years to become successful, of course), and also by making the Taiwanese believe that they were citizens of Japan, and also by making the Taiwanese believe that they were ethnically Japanese. Nowadays, the Taiwanese no longer identify as Japanese. Even though most Taiwanese people have favorable views towards modern Japan, they would certainly not support Japan if it again decided to start invading and occupying all of its Asian neighbours, as it did 80 years ago. However, despite this fact, the Taiwanese people no longer identify strongly as Han Chinese either. First and foremost, the Taiwanese are a settler people, just like the Americans and the Australians. Secondly, the Taiwanese people love their island above all else, and their loyalty to their island is more important than their loyalty to any external government which might have control over the island. And thirdly, the Taiwanese identify strongly with their unique cultural experience, because this is the only history which they know. They never experienced the Xinhai Revolution. They never experienced the Warlord Period of China. They never experienced proper rule under the Republic of China (this only occurred from 1945 until 1949, but during that time, Taiwan was subjected to the February 28 Incident and Martial Law). And they also never experienced China's Communist Revolution, Cultural Revolution, and Economic Revolution (1978- and onwards, instigated by Deng Xiaoping). So, how can the Taiwanese identify as Han Chinese if they have experience history completely differently from the people living in Mainland China? (Continued below.)
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  1066. I am Taiwanese, and I can share my vivid memory back to the horrible incident of the massacre I read from newspapers and leaked videos in 1994. The incident is briefly described in Wikipedia. Why do I mention "leaked videos"? That's because in 1990s China was like nowadays North Korea -- every information about China had to be censored, and propaganda must be positive and politically correct. All the tourists with camera could only filming what CCP's directors assigned to, otherwise they would be regarded as spies and be arrested. When the families of the victims arrived in the county of the incident, they soon noticed that they were restricted where they could go, and lots of local policemen kept watching them. All the videos filmed by the families of the victims had to be reviewed by CCP officials, and be deleted if the CCP officials felt any negative and politically incorrect in videos. Some Taiwanese did not comply with the censoring rule, and risked their lives by hiding some video tapes from China's censorship. After leaving China and back to Taiwan, they gave their video tapes to Taiwan TV stations to reveal the truth of what happened and how they were treated in China. At first the official information of the incident from the police was locked to as simply an accident. But when the families of the victims were introduced to see the burned ferry, they noticed the information from the police was deceptive and incorrect. They felt angry that the police tried to fool them with a childish police reasoning! That ferry was made of iron, and there was an iron door to the lower cabin of the ship. Inside the cabin, there were lots of pieces of human flesh still sticking on the floor and walls of the cabin. The families of the victims reasoned out what happened to the deceased before they died: The victims were locked inside the cabin after being robbed, then those robbers pouring gasoline on the top of the ferry, and set fire before those robbers left. The victims tried banging on walls and hoped some ships nearby hearing the banging sounds and come to rescue them. Unfortunately, they were burned alive with their screaming in an iron coffin. The families of the victims argued with the police that it was a murder crime event, but the police forcefully wanted them to swallow the decision already made by the police. The deed of the police made the families of the victims furious, and started to protest, which causing the suppression from the police. Someone was filming what the police barbaric action to them; but the police grabbed the camcorder, pulled out the tape, smashed and destroyed it on the ground. When the police thought they had covered up their barbaric action, another camcorder had already recorded the same scene tens of meters away. The video secretly shipped back to Taiwan, and broadcasted it through Taiwan TV stations. In 1990s, Taiwanese could watch CCP's CCTV satellite programs, so we could keep an eye on the activities of the families of the victims through Chinese censored TV news. We knew the families of the victims in China were not happy about Chinese police's action, but what did the CCTV propaganda say? CCTV news showed a local government official kindly shook hands one by one with the families of the victims, with narration: ALL WERE HAPPY and GRATEFULLY THANKS TO THE HOSPITALITY OF THE KIND MOTHERLAND. Taiwanese was further infuriated by the CCTV news, and noticed the one wanted to cover up the whole incident was not only by the local police, but also the local government. Taiwan government started trying to intervene the investigation processes of the incident, and threw all the suspicious points in that incident for Chinese government to answer. Because of the intervention of Taiwan government, Chinese county police changed their attitude from simple accident to murder robbery incident, and soon arrested SO CALLED robbers in just a few days. The police showed the guns that the robbers carried during the crime scene in CCTV news, but later strangely there were totally different guns shown in the jurisdictional court before executing those robbers. So more suspicions were still lingered: Why different guns were shown in public? Did those SO CALLED robbers actually the ones killing victims? What and why did Chinese government want to cover-up in the first place? The shadow of the incident was one of the points for Taiwanese to distrust Chinese governments and their officials, and push Taiwanese further away from China. The CCP today does not change at all after decades -- Still likes to cover-up everything that is negative and politically incorrect about China from the Chinese and the rest of the world.
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  1067.  @shazmosushi  I've seen every single one, and I think that more people should. All these videos deserve way more views. They are really good! 👌🏼
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  1068. Great info, would love to know even more detail
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  1069. Thank for this insight to the "Morris Chang & Chris Miller Semiconductor Forum". This is truly one of the gems in your library.
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  1070. I chuckle at and laugh at your jokes, please dont cut the jokes at future videos.
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  1071. I love the quality of your writing.
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  1072. As always outstanding.
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  1073. I just found your channel and boy am I glad. Keep up the good work and I'm definitely going to subscribe to your newsletter.
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  1074. could you maybe do a video on how (or why not) the US (or other countries) and China cooperate on criminal affaires?
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  1075. Just wanted to say your videos are invaluable for looking at the tech industry in Asia through western eyes (American born Taiwanese). Currently in big tech and have been on the 'hot startup' grind for a while and constantly thinking of ways to give back to the community back home -- whether that's through information sharing or educating an entire generation of ICs to give greater access to opportunity. In general, this has really helped put some things I saw growing up into context in my own life. This is really awesome context; appreciate your work.
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  1076. Nice overview. There is also formal verification, which I believe is akin to a mathematical proof that the logic works as intended. The formal verification is needed as there are too many combinations to check. I was also surprised that first pass success was only 38%. I wonder if this is mostly for analog and RFIC?
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  1077.  @iwx2672  If you have the opportunity visit the Chiang Kai Shek memorial in the centre of Taipei. From what I can gather, many Chinese mainlanders despise Chiang Kai Shek, but still acknowledge his role in creating the modern state. He is much more revered in Taiwan, although there are those in Taiwan who despise him. He created Martial law and suppressed the other dialects of Chinese language such as Hakka, Taiwanese even Cantonese in favour of Mandarin, he brutally weeded out Communist sympathisers, but was instrumental in creating the modern Taiwanese state. His son took over the reigns after his death, he was a lot more moderate, he helped reform the Taiwanese economy, and in part in responsible for the period of prosperity which Taiwan has enjoyed. In my opinion Taiwan is still more prosperous than China. If you have the opportunity visit some of the outlying towns such as Yilai, Alishan.
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  1078. Silt is HUGE. Where water slows down sediment will fall. Even dust will eventually fall somewhere.
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  1079. That's so nice you got to visit ASML and with such a great tour! Recently had the luxury of briefly visiting ASML, imec and NXP as kind of a student trip and while my limited knowledge was a hurdle to ask meaningful questions it was absolutely fascinating to grasp that there is (still) so much high-end technology development cooking in the middle of Europe.
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  1080. Now I'm curious how the masks are made. Maybe a topic for another video?
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  1081. Excellent video. Thanks for your clear and easily understandable summary. I also didn't realize that the funds poured into it may not have benefited ordinary Singaporeans - oh well, it was a losing gamble. Do you know why the SG government allowed SSMC to open and undercut CSM locally? Seems like an odd move.
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  1082. I just remembered to ask you. Do you have pets? Dr. Ian Cutress from TechTechPotato always puts a picture of his cat at the end of his videos and it's always a delight to see them.
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  1083. Dude, honestly, id be cool with a video about African soda pop in the 1970s from you as long as you found it interesting, keep up the great work.
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  1084. DCUs are honestly redundant. When speed isn't a critical factor of operation I would rather have replaceable cheap relays that I –the user– can service. Semiconductors are impossible to service on the field should they fail.
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  1085. The Trinitron's impact on the TV market was truly groundbreaking, such a perfect fusion of innovation and design.
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  1086. Great work on this! Are you going to make more tech related videos?
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  1087. Dear Asianometry Every time I hear something about companies that are dedicated to milk, I remember PARMALAT. I am European and I cannot get out of my head the immense distortions that exist in the food market that are produced by titans with feet of clay. Thanks for your wonderful work.
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  1088. I used to visit Leuven a couple of times every year over 10 years ago and still never heard colleagues talking about IMEC. Leuven is a beautiful little city with quite an interesting tech business cluster growing out of KU Leuven. Worth a quick day trip if you ever visit Brussels.
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  1089. ...and this comment section will be toxic in 3....2......1....nvm it was already toxic before I wrote this.
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  1090. Compared to the theoretical explanation of how a device is found, the demonstration of the experiments helps me understand the working mechanism more. It also sheds light on how we need to discover new devices, allowing us to see how the history of science progresses gradually.
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  1091. very interesting slice of history, reminds me of an ex, actually an ex's mom...who was born of Fujian Chinese-ancestry in Taiwan back when it was a Japanese colony and Japanese was mandatory in school. When she was 12 or so, her family picked up and moved to the growing Chinese colony in Kobe Japan. She survived the war, which she never talked about, and ended up marrying a Chinese-American merchant seaman, moved to San Francisco. When I went to visit my girlfriend in San Francisco, she was always busy working, school, social schedule so I often hung with her mom...who was an extremely interesting nice person who seemingly knew every business owner in both Chinatown and Japan-town as she spoke fluent Japanese, 5-6 Chinese dialects including most of the ones heard in SF, and native Taiwanese and English. Her connections later helped her kids set up prominent local businesses. I miss her a lot, RIP MrsD.
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  1092. Thank you for your fascinating videos. Look after yourself.
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  1093. Mostly when I don't watch a video, or stop watching in the middle, it's because I don't have the background to understand any deeper. This is a perverse fault of yours, ha ha, for knowing and explaining too much. There's nothing to do for it: don't try to explain more, or they'd be twice as long. Don't try to explain less, or I wouldn't watch them to start with. A few are intriguing enough that I read up on Wikipedia enough to go back and watch again. You have an excellent balance between not enough and too much. Please don't change that.
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  1094. 10:35 Okami is actually a Playstation 2 port by the way
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  1095. hello I took your advice and watched the linked video "devotion" before watching this. Thankyou Both videos are quite moving and deserve many peoples attention. m You do some exceptional work.
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  1096.  @Asianometry  might be true but the government did its best. they tried to abolish slavery, but had to keep the practice at a minimum when they couldn't abolish it completely. i don't want to ramble on about qing, but i think the ming government did better than qing. yeah, ming wasn't the greatest in the world at that time but government tried to serve the people as much as they could and help tributary states when appropriate (looking forward to your next video!)
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  1097. i literally LOLed at that mom joke in the middle of my dinner. You almost killed me. Well played, sir.
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  1098. Very well detailed and interesting presentation. Thanks for the effort
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  1099. It's very interesting that more than 50% of bitcoin mining happens in China (I've seen some estimates that are closer to 75%), by enterprising private individuals but ultimately under the jurisdiction of the government like everything else in China. While mining obviously generates bitcoin, any transaction on bitcoin forfeits a transaction fee that is transferred to whichever miner verifies the transaction first. Effectively all bitcoin transactions transfers a small amount of wealth to China: buying bitcoin means you're buying into an ecosystem controlled by China, the same as if you bought a Huawei phone. Additionally, in blockchain based systems you just need to control more than 50% of the mining to be able to reverse transactions so it's conceivable that China could one day do a "51% attack".
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  1100. your error was "erorrs". love your vids!
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  1101. In case you're not aware, this is the EIGHTEENTH video in this channel's TSMC coverage. Here's the entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ
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  1102. I'm from Hong Kong. I have German Shephard. She's my favorite dog; also part of my family. I raise her. I took care of her. I love her so much. She thinks almost like human.
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  1103. Morris Chang is the man! What an event. Viva Taiwan! 🇹🇼
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  1104. Phenomenal to me that they're doing lithography <= the wavelength of the the light utilized! The details had me saying "whoa!" or "holy kitty cats!" every few minutes. Reminds me of something from the Manhattan Project.
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  1105. In my country they are called nutria in Germany and the Czech Republic same
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  1106. Amazing stuff! Always happy to see your new content! Greetings from Cupertino California
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  1107. What a crazy story. Has there been any development on this case?
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  1108. I'm just here for the puns. And the science. That's cool too.
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  1109. Two uploads in one day? Wow!
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  1110. It makes 0 sense why this has so few views. I've watched all of your videos now and the knowledge is great
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  1111. It's very, very much like software - most of the time is not spent on the original implementation, but on looking for problems with the implementation and fixing them before they affect deployment to a production environment. Except that it's much, much harder to patch, so all that work is front-loaded.
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  1112. Another first class video. Awesome channel! 😃
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  1113. This is such a great and underrated channel. If you are fascinated by Hanzi/Kanji etymology, you may be interested in A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by Kenneth Henshall. It provides a huge degree of etymological depth for the average Japanese language learner. I have long since given up my Japanese studies, but it was/is fascinating!
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  1114. another superb video. this time on what could have been!
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  1115. India was extremely influenced by Russia. Our policy makers literally wanted to copy Russia but we were unique. Russia was richer than us and was able to extract wealth from agricultural sector and invest it in heavy industry. Our agricultural techniques never modernised and they were trying to extract wealth from that. Fun fact; The refinery my father works in was frequently visited Russians and kgb agents to corrupt the minds of the most educated class.
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  1116. Keep up the great work, your videos bring me so much joy.
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  1117. Good to see a complete video on Tainan. I studied there, lots of memories. #NCKU_Alumni
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  1118. Good evening from Costa Rica
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  1119. This is such a good summary for the current situation, well done! I think the bigest question for the semiconductor industrie is the progress of autonomous driving and IoT. But if there is really to much capacity for chips coming in the next years, investors will have a hard time ;)
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  1120. could you make a video about SK hynix? would much appreciate it, thanks
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  1121. I've been around for a couple years now (according to YouTube, I've watched every single one of your videos since "How Apple Changed TSMC") and I always try to be very critical of how trustworthy the channels I watch are. I was definitely skeptical seeing a random indie YouTube channel named "Asianometry" with a deer profile picture talking about semiconductors, but watching a couple videos, it was clear how much you value your work and how much effort you put into each and every video. I've seen you make mistakes in the past which is only understandable being effectively still an indie creator researching a field you are passionate in, but do not have any formal education in. What's important is that you always own up to those mistakes and you move on from them holding yourself to ever greater standards. I came for the semiconductors and stayed for everything you've been branching out into (though semiconductors are a real treat!). I always get excited seeing a new video from you pop up on my news feed, I hope 2023 treats you well and I hope that you manage to take a break when you need it! We'll still be here, eagerly awaiting your next video when you are back!
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  1122. Just signed up for the newsletter 👍🏽 5:44 Btw, you nailed the "Uppsala" intonation 🇸🇪☺️ For real
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  1123. So you're not a deer AFTER ALL THIS TIME?!?!
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  1124. Love your essays!
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  1125. Hey I went to see the first movie I've seen in years a few months ago and it was Dune.. Not a marvel movie. (Double vaxxed) Love these videos, Thanks for making them :)
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  1126. This channel is the absolute best at giving me great information on topics I never knew I'd be interested in!
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  1127. Love the reference to the quote from Sean Connery in "The Rock ". Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen. Of course, Nicholas Cage responded that his date was the prom queen. Top notch film! Much like this channel. 😇
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  1128. Thanks for the very thorough mini-documentary. I have never heard of controversy around this Ractopamine animal feed additive. Also I have never heard of this United Nations food safety standards body, the "Codex Alimentarius Commission" (if anybody from the United Nations is reading, here's a better name: "UN Food Standards Authority"). Sounds like I need to start watching those industrial agriculture documentaries on Netflix/CuriosityStream or wherever. Now, from your mini-documentary it sounds like there is concern about the quality of the science coming out of the UN commission, due to economic pressure/influence from "big agriculture" firms via the United States government. My advice to Taiwanese politicians and Taiwanese voters is to create a commission of local pre-eminent scientists to independently analyse the science of such questions, release public reports and advise the government. The goal of such a commission would NOT be to covertly implement non-tariff barriers to protect Taiwan's domestic pork industry, but to be above the political partisanship and be the trusted and respected independent arbiter tasked with protecting public health. If American trade negotiators don't like that, then let them complain and ignore them. Taiwan is a sovereign, independent country. The country should only ever make food safety decisions based in science of public health, not because foreign free-trade negotiators were twisting your arm.
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  1129. 8:16 By the way, I always pronounced this "Zie Links" (and so do colleagues of mine). The CEO and Bloomberg both say "Zie links": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDgZVm5aDg
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  1130. 😂 An Wang and Wang Labs was one of the past year's favorites for me (and the Massachusetts mob I shared it with)! Hearing aids too! (Wondered if Nicolet would come up, thrilled it did!) You had an exceptional year for content, and we can't thank you enough! 😎✌️
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  1131. Bro. You're smart af. Good material.
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  1132. I've always loved my asus components. Using an asus mobo right now.
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  1133. Can you do Luxgen? Would love to know more about the brand and why they didn't succeed in expanding to global market.
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  1134. Wait did Mao say when Chiang Kai-shek died? What was his reaction? I've always wondered.
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  1135. as the man himself mentioned, the problem is connectivity and energy/space/pressure/moisture-constraints..its hard, thats probably why we know so very much less about the ocean.. i wished i was able to study marine engineering, i always dreamed about working on subs... :)
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  1136. I never knew this despite being very familiar with both Philips and TSMC. Very good video.
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  1137. Wow, I think 300mm wafers are here to stay for a long time after what I just heard. Genuinely interesting topic and well presented, thank you!
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  1138. IIRC from an economics lecture i attended, a major reason for the recent increases in US healthcare costs is the "Affordable care Act" of 2010. Two major fall outs were the creation of fiefdoms/oligopolies via the restriction of servicing across state lines (creating captive markets), and fining citizens that chose to not have health insurance, thus forcing citizens to pay for pricey healthcare they may not want.
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  1139. Big respect for shouting out TechTechPotato
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  1140. Interesting story--I see the remnants of the shaw studios on the edge of HKUST and have wondered about its past. It's still quite an impressive and big place, but mysteriously empty.
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  1141. Love this channel.
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  1142. Wow, I can imagine that if my Grandfather born in 1917 who fought in two major battles in Wuhan during the Second-sino Japanese war on the Nationalists side if he had stayed in the Nationalists army our family might have fled to Taiwan and lived in one of these villages, he was even given a wooden cane by the Nationalists as a trophy for his service but after the war he grew disillusioned with the way the KMT ran things and joined the Communists. I really want to do some digging and see if anyone from his regiment ever fled with the Nationalists to Taiwan or perhaps Burma during the 50s and track them down their family and see if they remember him.
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  1143. very informative video .... I am an asml engineer working closed with tsmc..
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  1144. excellent content as always. much appreciated!
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  1145. Good research not much videos/articles mention the old history regarding yahoo/alibaba and Ant. I knew about it since back then was considering buying yahoo stock just based on their alibaba holding. I was not so positive on the Ant group prospects (even before the stopping of ipo) since in the past the government/regulators have limited their growth/profitability since in order to grow rapidly they would need to grab market share or profits from many state run financial companies.
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  1146. Thanks for this video, it's great you don't only focus on technology development etc, also culture, and an explanation of family here. The West was more strict in the 60, 70s, then they become more "happy communists" where they try and be nicer and giving too much freedom. This has lead the West, mainly the US, Australia, maybe UK etc to have people who don't have direction, don't know how to focus. So, as westerns companies manufactured their stuff in China, a very ordered society, it drastically pulled up their wealth, whilst the West's children were not given direction and focus, so we're becoming more useless... I'm white by the way, grew up in Africa, so had an older style education, and life experience growing up
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  1147. Great video on the challenges of Container Shipping Industry
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  1148. My man you’re on a roll! Incredible work and super grateful 🙏
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  1149. It's awesome that the pelicle is made from CNTs. That feels like a good use of their properties.
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  1150. This one was great, one of the many reasons I keep coming back to this channel is the history I don't really get anywhere else. Thanks.
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  1151. Your channel is a huge inspiration and knowledge source. You and all your work are awesome! But due to the fact that everyone is enjoying it so much, we would love it to go on so much longer. So PLEASE take care and don't burn out so fast! Take longer brakes! Take the time you need! Everyone is waiting for the content. Not on a regular basis, but we're waiting AS LONG AS IT TAKES!!! So PLEASE take your time and take care of yourself. You can only thrive when you have the energy to do so! Stepping back is often a good idea and normally no one is noticing it ;-) Have a great time and enjoy. Cheers for all the efforts and knowledge! I enjoy it all so much!
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  1152. Yes. Would you please do one for electric cars?
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  1153. Dude your videos are exactly what I’m looking for. I subscribed Bc I’m a semiconductor engineer but I’m here for the long term my friend. Love the cadence love the content keep it up.
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  1154. Your channel is better than Netflix. Keep making great videos
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  1155. Fascinating topic as always Jon! :D
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  1156. Excellent technical video. Well researched!
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  1157. Different type of thirst.
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  1158. Enjoyed your interview on TechTechPotato by the way...
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  1159. Thank you for a great video. I live in Singapore, and it is so tiny that it is seriously short of land. Singapore leaders have a fixation on increasing the population (despite it being so crowded already), so there is a unrelenting need for sand for land reclamation, concrete to house all these people, and buildings for these people to work in.
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  1160. The Taiwanese Deer you use as your aviator is charming. You topic is timely and certainly it’s needed to be discussed in detail. Sand use needs to be evaluated. In an oil drill site off California concrete tetrapods were created with aggregate and sand on top. The tetrapods also created habitat and it’s still in use today built in the 1960s
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  1161. I worked at a place that had to scrap several thousand wafers due to bad DI water contaminating the gate oxide, because the issue didn't show itself until final test. Simple thing but so critical.
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  1162. coz of ignorant remarks of this sort. he didnt just wake up, hes tired of your boing crap.
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  1163. Always happy to see videos from this channel. Very informative.
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  1164.  @Asianometry  I'm a relatively new sub to the channel (probably only been here a month or so) and I hadn't picked up on any jokes yet! Glad to see you've got some humor :)
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  1165. What an amazing story! Love the Lü Bu comparison
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  1166. It's interesting to learn more about the Taiwanese Healthcare system. It's fantastic. In my home country you have to wait days, weeks, or even months to see a doctor (non emergency), and in Taiwan you can, for example, see a Dr, get a scan, results, and prescription in a matter of hours, at a low price. I was amazed the first time I went to a Taiwanese hospital.
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  1167. Having wathced your video about USSR Economy and now this one, I must say I like your "didn't find any satisfying source of info on this topic, decided to create it myself" attitude
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  1168. I am glad to have the job in science park, in my hometown Tainan!
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  1169. That pop music intro though...
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  1170. the freedom units at 9:30 hurt my soul
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  1171. this is so quality. When I get that first big embedded systems internship from my Asianometry industry knowledge, I'll be sure to sub to the patreon :)
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  1172. It would be nice to hear your opinion on future of RISC-V or Arm Total Solutions for IoT. Great video as always.
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  1173. Great history and assessment. If you own property in HK, would you still be a long-term holder? Thanks for your perspectives
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  1174. Really good video and something that I do hope will be the first in a series of videos on Waishengren.
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  1175. 42% growth in a quarter is mighty impressive! I'm glad to see your channel is getting so much traction Jon. You have a great perspective and insight on topics that interest many of us. Congratulations
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  1176. In case you haven't noticed. This video is flagged "Unlisted".. that's an oversight, isn't it?
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  1177. His comedic editing skill is incredible. The meme is so small it's like a footnote. I can't get over it.
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  1178. Education of course!!!! How didn't I thought of that. 1997, seems like yesterday to me I was 27 seven a that time, it's also the year that Hong Kong was hand over . Thank you for this interesting video.
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  1179. Naver heard about it
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  1180. I really like your videos; I think it deserves more attention than the status quo. Which city do you live in Taiwan?
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  1181. Whose brain are you picking to learn all this information? Anyway, thanks for sharing. What a time to be alive!
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  1182. "or pay gas fees for one NFT" 😜😂😂 Honestly though, 99.9% of NFTs are a joke.
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  1183.  @Asianometry  No problem buddy, it's not immediately apparent. You nailed the pronunciation of "bumiputera" though which is amazing
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  1184.  @Asianometry  Thanks! The problem with the "cultural divergence" theory is that Taiwan is still currently in the process of diverging from Chinese culture. Additionally, Taiwan is still officially under Chinese (ROC) control, which makes it very difficult for Taiwanese culture to become nationalised and centralised. Taiwanese culture is not very well defined, even though it is certainly real, mainly as a result of Taiwan's difficult political status, and also due to the young age of the Taiwanese Nation. Though many families have been living in Taiwan for hundreds of years, the decision of several (not all) Native Taiwanese to declare themselves as a separate ethnic group and nation has been a more recent phenomenon, most probably beginning during the White Terror period of Taiwan. Taiwan's Democratisation only began a few decades ago, and prior to that, Taiwan was under the control of a strict Chinese regime which did its best to ensure that Chinese culture would be retained and that Taiwanese culture - whatever that is - would be permanently erased. Given that Taiwan is such a young nation with such an undefined culture and such a tense political situation, with no effective "motherland" (given that the "Taiwanese Motherland" is currently under Chinese control), it's very difficult to know who is actually Taiwanese and who isn't; vague surveys with questions that are designed to derive specific answers and with very small (and often rigged) sample spaces are not a very accurate indication of general public sentiment in Taiwan, regarding Taiwan's culture and nation-hood. Meanwhile, whilst most Overseas Taiwanese do identify to a small extent with Taiwan, it can probably be said that the majority do not fully regard "Taiwanese" as an independent nationality or ethnicity, and probably have wildly differing opinions from one another in regards to what it means to be Taiwanese; a significant number of Overseas Taiwanese perhaps identify as Han Chinese, and it is quite difficult to distinguish these people from Overseas Mainlander Chinese. With the future status of Taiwan being very uncertain, and with the strength of China increasing, Taiwanese culture will probably continue to radically change and be redefined throughout the years. It's quite possible that different groups within Taiwan may begin to disagree on their own definitions of what Taiwanese culture actually is, given that Taiwanese culture is not very ancient; if you go back far enough, Taiwanese culture is just Han Chinese culture, and pro-independence Taiwanese obviously don't want people to make that connection, so they're going to place more emphasis on recent changes and trends in Taiwanese culture, which, by their very nature of being recent and not integral to traditional Taiwanese culture, can easily become points of disagreement even amongst the pro-independence Taiwanese themselves.
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  1185. Fine, I'll subscribe to your newsletter 🙄 I feel like you have a format that would translate really well into a podcast as well. Anyways keep it up 💖
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  1186. Good morning from SG!
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  1187. Wonderful telling of a great Silicon Valley story, thanks.
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  1188. I wonder if TSMC will give you a factory tour when you hit 1m subs
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  1189. I really like how you made the newsletter message visual now :) I like to listen to your videos sometimes and i always have to like reach for my phone to skip that segment (have been subscribed for a loong time now) Making it an animation is great, since new viewers are still likely to see it
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  1190. This channel is a blessing.
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  1191. Another instructive video. I always learn a lot. 👍
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  1192. I'm liking the increased comedy in the captions
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  1193. A fascinating subject. I've heard that the Hakka didn't practice footbinding. Do you know why?
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  1194. interesting to see a video from 2 years ago from your newsletter. I've always wanted to figure out the percentage of smoking population by age groups. Have you got any data on that?
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  1195. Keep up the work man!
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  1196. Being among the first comments is wild... However: "the japanese businessman trested him like a god. As they should, he co-invented the IC" With the changes that guy helped bring to the world... Yeah. Loved the quip. Thanks for the video!
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  1197. I have lived more than a decade in Japan and spent a bit of time looking into their history. You did a magnificent job with this overview of the rise and fall of the zaibatsu.
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  1198. What a great video, thank you. I made the first sets of air bearings that the laser assembly rides in so it can be steered at the tin. I honestly had no idea the scope of this project was so massive. Cymer found a little company in NH called Nelson Air. It was a big project for our 4 man shop. One of the more challenging things I’ve machined.
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  1199. Whenever I see the innards of an ASML stepper, it makes me think of those hugely complicated machines they used to keep Akira cryogenized.
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  1200.  @stevenjacobs2750  He could possibly be a Patreon supporter of Asianometry channel, and gets earlier access to the videos there, before they're uploaded to YouTube or other platforms.
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  1201. Oh shit, the bell works!
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  1202. this is so amazing, thanks for making this doc.
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  1203. Congratulations on a successful event!
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  1204. Philippines has a large community of Chinese people.....I know cause I lived in the community for 2 years...and in Cebu city...how fun....but I am back in the United States....
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  1205. I’m just here for the New Zealand memes
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  1206. What can you do with 130nm? All sorts of stuff, including stuff you might never think of. I work for a major semiconductor manufacturer on power converters. Most of our state of the art processes for analog and power devices are around there. That's a great spot for high performance CMOS analog. 130nm might not be good enough for cutting edge digital, but you can still build amazing digital on that. And possibly quite alot of analog circuitry, depending on how the process is tuned.
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  1207. Recalls the HAL 9000 (from "2001") who confidently stated that any error made by a computer was ultimately due to human error.
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  1208. I've specifically aimed to be a verification engineer ever since I heard about it being a thing during my Bachelor's in EE. This dream came true recently, but I've been struggling to explain to friends and family what exactly it is that I'm doing. It's cool to see it addressed in a popular channel's video 😀
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  1209. Great work! I'm suprised that the government of China even allowed the British to be the ones who demolished the city. The propaganda value of "look how poorly the British ruled over you" seems pretty large.
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  1210. Another Great Video !! Thanks for producing them !!
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  1211. The Blue Magpie is my favorite Taiwanese endemic animal, but this was interesting to learn about.
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  1212. Your best video, among plenty of good ones, in my opinion. ^^ Thank you. I wonder, you sound American but are interested in Asia. Have you ever been to Asia or are you living there or are you of Asian descent? What piqued your interest in this region initially? And what are your main fields of expertise? Are you a historian or economist? :) PS: Sorry if I appear prying; I don't mean to. I am just very curious. One doesn't see an American well-versed in past and present across the ocean everyday. :)
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  1213. Thanks for the analysis! Cant wait for the Carl Zeiss video.
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  1214. A very nice account of the industry ! Thank you for sharing .
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  1215. I live across the river from Savage, Minnesota. I am a huge WW2 history buff, lived here most of my life, never knowing this all occured here. Sad how a lot of history gets lost. Thank you for covering this entire story.
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  1216. Thanks for your work
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  1217. That was utterly brilliant.
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  1218. Wish this video were twice as long - excellent analysis !
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  1219. The whole thing is so mind-boggling, it's like trying to understand the size of the universe: The human mind seems to be lagging reality.
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  1220. Great episode.
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  1221. I was yearning for an asianometry video past 2-3 days. love it when a new one drops.
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  1222. Your pronunciation of leuven was really good btw
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  1223. Water is always interesting.
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  1224. hello I am happy I subscribed. m Thoughtful and well delivered.
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  1225. I would've loved to work in solar. Sad how China had to steal all the jobs
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  1226. Looking at the physical layout of the triangular shape with the two points at the end, and seeing the sketch at 13:54 ... Just NOW it becomes clear to me why the transistor symbol is the way it is. After I've played with Transistors for the last 40 years. #TIL
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  1227. I am liking the mic upgrade my friend, well done!
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  1228.  @Asianometry  On the surface, couples who don't have children often claim it's due to financial reasons. However, based on personal observations, I think there is some mentality aspects as well.
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  1229. Thanks man, I have learnt a lot from your channel. Keep up the good work. Thank you!
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  1230. Keep up the good job. 🙂
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  1231. You would have thought this would have made the CCP even faster now especially letting people travel within and outside the country.
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  1232. This video is really interesting and intriguing!!! Thank you!
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  1233. Please make more videos on this topic. Thank you.
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  1234. I hope you had a great time on your trip! Thank you for the thoughtful insight.
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  1235. I should also mention that ASUS RoG (Republic of Gamers) equipment including the ASUS "Strix" brand are also really great in my experience. Yes they have the over-the-top design of most gaming hardware (multicolored LED lights etc), but they have been great bang-for-buck every time I've researched their stuff. For smartphones my advice is currently "just buy the mid-range Samsung phone with the 5000+ mAh battery and a very high resolution screen) but for computing equipment the advice of "just buy ASUS/ROG and Gigabyte hardware" is actually pretty reasonable.
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  1236. I came to your channel for the TSMC content; I'm staying for all the other fascinating topics. Really neat video
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  1237. The news suggests it's about specialized technicians who know how to install facilities. It's hardly surprising since you don't get to do this every day in AZ. Unlike Taiwan, they build new fabs all the time. If construction of this RD centre is also delayed, what's the big deal that AZ fab is delayed.
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  1238. Ah, a video series coming out in the correct order.
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  1239. I have never heard of ASML but I know of ASM Pacific. maybe you can do a video about them too?
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  1240. I live in the town where ASM International used to be before it collaborated with Philips to make ASML. Not sure what to make of it. Pretty cool I guess
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  1241. Really spoiling us with all these recent uploads, and once again criminally low views on a channel that deserves far more!
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  1242. Just a suggestion: Have you thought about releasing your audio as a podcast? You present good information in a good way. Cheers.
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  1243. Interesting video, thanks
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  1244. First 2 minutes, i like the content and subscribed. informative
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  1245. I think he might of been just sick or tired
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  1246.  @Asianometry I’m glad you’re doing better!
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  1247. Saw your 1 video. Without opening your playlist , I knew you were going in my list of top 5 YouTube channels 🔥🔥 I know I m just an average Joe but I have got great taste in Infotainment , your expertise in information and knowledge , storytelling , video editing , video topics is just so good 👍 You have made video on some exceptional topics which nobody else has .. Really appreciate your hardwork 🙏 PS : if you have any doubt on my taste , your channel is on par with Jake tran , James Jani , business and coldfusion for me . If you have more great channel like yours and these plz share their names I will be very thankful to you ...
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  1248. Great vlog. You managed to tell us a lot more about TSMC. They are truly amazing.
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  1249. This is the kind of hard hitting videos I appreciate. Really makes you think 🤔
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  1250. Really good ! A couple of other fun ones where computation is key: 1. simulating more zoom levels/smooth zoom from multiple fixed levels and parallaxed sensors 2. using these parallaxed sensors to complement depth sensors in deeper fields where dedicated depth sensors fail 3. enhancing low light performance of the "zoomed" sensors by using the wider ones 4. using multiple sensors to calculate "field flow" to correct shake and pan blurs 5. On that note, using multiple sensors in the video domain to simulate filmic effects like focus pull Just so many things one you have a matrix of sensors and a crap load of CPU/GPU ! One annoying marketing thing Apple do - some "exclusive" features of new phones COULD work on earlier ones, and sometimes quietly sneak into subsequent software releases on older phones (Bokeh being a prominent example)
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  1251. Well made video my fellow taiwanese
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  1252. AHAHAH THIS IS THE LAST VIDEO I EXPECTED TO SEE A MGS MEME! "YOU'RE PRETTY GOOOOOD:)"
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  1253. We're lucky 🥰
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  1254. Are there any Chinese startups or competitors in the GPU space? There seems to be a much publicized shortage in GPU and prices have skyrocketed.
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  1255. Great video. I know Japan, Europe and South Korea have work cultures that prize joining safe/large/established companies immediately after entering the workforce, with major societal pressure (seen as a failure) if you choose to pursue life paths with less guaranteed success. I presume Taiwanese youth have a similar outlook.
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  1256. I really enjoy your videos, Jon. This video essay is a great take on the semiconductor design problem. I do believe that AI will gradually step in to help alleviate some of the challenges and issues with manufacturing silicon but the industry has been slow to adopt this technology to make vast improvements to silicon manufacturing quality. Some in technology thing "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and that needs to change in my opinion.
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  1257. I don't have nearly enough understanding of chips to be able to meaningfully engage with this video, but very interesting nonetheless!
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  1258. Well one thing I can predict about the future from when he created this video is: That he got his 100,000+ subscribers
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  1259. First of all, great video, this channel is absolutely one of my favourites! This sounds a lot like the job of CSV in pharmaceutical manufacture. Although I admit it’s technically far behind the complexity of chip design, the principles are the same, we want to avoid bugs like the incident with the Therac-25 X-Ray machine which killed a bunch of patients undergoing cancer treatment due to an error in the code. We work to the GAMP 5 ISPE standards to instruct on the level of validation. To get over the problem of performing endless testing to cover every case we use a branch of maths called DOE, design of experiments, to calculate the best permutation of experiments to conduct. I was wondering if the constrained randomisation that you described utilises some DOE or would the maths become too complex to be practical.
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  1260. Love your channel, you always come up with interesting topics !
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  1261. I (used to) teach a class on IC packaging, and I have to say this video is very well done. Good job!
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  1262. Can u make a discord server? (I'm first btw) :/
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  1263. Seriously: THANK YOU ! I really like your channel, but this video sent me back to the early 90s when I programmed my first GAL units while my teachers were teaching us TTL/CMOS... they were already late!
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  1264. Thank you very much for making very interesting and high quality video’s like this.
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  1265. Very informative video, learned a lot from this 👍
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  1266. Interesting topic! Very curious to know more about this particular case, it’s weird how slavery was “abolished” but Europeans still found a way to have Chinese, Indian and Javanese indentured servants all over the world 🤨.
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  1267. I'm an adult but I still love field trips. Thanks for the taking us with you.
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  1268. National Cheng Kung university is one of the top 4 universities(台成清交) in Taiwan, known for science and tech education. Also one of the early 3 technical higher education institutions established in the colonial period.
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  1269. Nice surprise at this hour. Thank you
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  1270. Love the dig at Ethereum gas fees at the end. Nice video and very interesting topic.
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  1271. I’m always impressed about how informed you are about our products.
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  1272. Excellent work, been watching your reports for a while. Thanks for letting an old guy keep up.
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  1273. Great video, Jon! Many thanks for your hours of great educational entertainment ❤️
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  1274. Great video! Possible to also do a video on Canon and nikon Lithography machines vs those by ASML? Tia
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  1275. Hong Kong during the 60s was also a time when corruption was rampant in all civil and government levels especially the police. The police were more concerned getting their weekly kickbacks (the weekly kickbacks were structured based on rank) than concerned about the uprising and social instability that was about to boil over. By the way, I really appreciate your channel in youtube, keep up the great work and looking forward to all your upcoming episodes.
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  1276. hello They seem to be pretty well thought out " random thoughts" m
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  1277. The concept of standard cells still live on, but today there is so much software aid on the hard design that the finished product is a far cry from the Lego like approach of VLSI. And today the concept has moved to IP blocks. That is basically the same approach done differently: keep complexity down by segmenting out functionality blocks, but keep things flexible with standard interfaces for those blocks.
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  1278. How fitting, a deer fawning over being appreciated. Love your content, in depth no nonsense videos about semi-obscure topics and topics that everyone wonders about but nobody consciously asks questions about. What Discovery or Nat Geo used to give in 60m with commercials in the late 90s early 00s. To a great new year and many more insightful videos!
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  1279. Great video and summary. Having 100 start-ups doing the same is huge waste of resources and money. Having too many failures would discourage investments. If they limit it to 5-10 would be better utilization of skills and investments. In the end only 2 -3 would be able to survive and be profitable just like airline industry.
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  1280. I can't understand why I haven't stumbled into this channel before, but now I'm gonna watch all of it. Thank you for making awesome videos!
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  1281. Another super informative video, so many thanks! Also it's so cool to see just how complex an everyday object like a sports shoe is, like I would have never though about it until you broke down just how many "components" are required in the "assembly" ;^)
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  1282. I really enjoy how you have new areas of technology to explore and it's not about the software
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  1283. Another excellent post. I also wanted to Thank You for sharing a "Look Back at the Sino-Vietnamese War." I finally have a better understanding of that Chinese Invasion into Vietnam.
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  1284. I get it the whole world depends on Taiwan 🇹🇼 the great nation.
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  1285. I agree with you, indeed 2023 is passed away swiftly and it is valid question where did the time go? Well, let's not ponder over that now and move on. Asianometry is a gem among other youtube channels, and watching your videos on varied topics is a productive investment of time for me. I really wish Asianometry to continue in coming years and, Thankyou for your sincere efforts you put behind this channel. Best wishes and Regards for 2024 and future. -Aeyo from 🇮🇳
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  1286. underrated channel
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  1287. Have you seen the film 一念無明? I would be interested to hear if you have any recommendations for other Chinese media references which look at mental health. I plan to watch 疯爱 by 王兵 soon.
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  1288. Im a father of two kids. I had experience these epidemic game online addiction in early 2000 since ragnarok etc I have friends crushing their future by addicting to games like that. no matter what you are , a student , an office worker , a house wive, etc ...you are doomed
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  1289. You are welcome to visit the Marina Barrage!!!
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  1290. Man, your channel is fascinating. I've been to Taiwan once, but only for a few days. I would love to find some way to live there. Is Taiwan allowing foreigners to come in again?
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  1291. One reason you can't really compare the productivity of research in terms of number of patents is that for bigtech companies like apple, alphabet etc. a lot of research probably goes towards software solutions which can't be patented. Whereas for tsmc i think its more patentable types of engineering so to say.
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  1292. Yes, smoking kills. Both my parents from terrible prolonged cancer.
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  1293.  @Asianometry  ok so it is not overly dependant on apple. It wouldn't be great for the company but also for the business model. As a customer if I have to go to a company that might have to prioritize my main competitors need instead of me it would be a real concern.
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  1294. Damn I wish this had come out 7 hours earlier, I was just finishing up a rushed research paper on the semiconductor shortage and would've loved to include more information on Fab construction but finding comprehensive sources was difficult. Speaking of which, have you ever considered throwing sources in the description? Your other videos were super helpful but I often found myself wanting to cite a specific detail but being unable to track down a print source (I cited your channel as a reference, but for individual claims in-text citing Youtube videos is generally frowned upon sadly).
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  1295. Have been watching and enjoying your videos for a few weeks now. Having worked in the SEMI industry for about 13 years (now left) with all the biggies - TSMC, Samsung and Intel on the cutting edge nodes, I find your videos fascinating. You seem to be find information/pictures that would generally be hard to find. Keep up the good work! It's fun to watch some of the aerial pictures of the biggest fabs , identify them from the picture and then reminisce about the long hours spent inside some of those cleanrooms troubleshooting the WORLD'S TOUGHEST PROBLEMS :)) . Did you work at any of these giants?
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  1296. Superb video as always. Excellent summation in easy to understand terms. Folks, share this far and wide. It’s too good not to!
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  1297. ​ @Asianometry  I would have thought the United States would be willing and able to retain high margin manufacturing like building Boeing fuselages (and their General Electric jet engines), SpaceX rockets, Intel chips and cars. It's a good sign that the TSMC and Samsung are building leading edge factories to the United States (though outside of California). Analysis of those decisions might be a good video idea by the way. Your semiconductor fab videos tend to do very well.
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  1298. Excellent video once again. Thank you for sharing.
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  1299. LOL! Yeah, solving the problem by shooting droplets of tin at black powder revolver speeds and hitting them twice with two different laser systems (with each their own complexities) sounds like a Nicola Tesla solution all right. Doing it 50,000 times a second without missing a beat?... That sounds more like Edison! :P
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  1300. Good video. Thank you for your contribution.
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  1301. Congrats on a successful event!
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  1302. This is a truely phenomenal video dude. Your channel is a gold mine.
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  1303.  @Asianometry  Oh right I misheard the name when I googled it: Kofukuji temple in Nara, not Tofukuji temple in Kyoto (which Wikipedia says takes it name from both the Kofukuji and Todaiji temples in Nara).
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  1304. Love your videos. Thankyou for the work you do, its very appreciated
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  1305. I grew up with a 7-11 next to my house in Taipei in the early 1980s. Of course, I got the tea eggs which went for 5 NTD or about the exchange equivalent of 12.5 cents. That was 40 years ago and inflation adjusted, those eggs were about $1 in today’s dollars. Indeed, when I was in Taipei last week, they were still selling the tea eggs for about $1. Back then I thought 7-11 was the epitome of massive success. Little me didn’t know they were in the midst of dire financial straits and wouldn’t break even for 7 more years.
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  1306. Big improvement in the audio. Great videos. The history between the PRC and RoC are so interesting.
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  1307. Great content that was a black box for us for a long time... you have a great future in this channel
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  1308. A recruiter came to me a couple days ago about that! Google is looking for devs with microelectronics background to develop it's CAD tool.
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  1309. Great comment. I tried to find an educational video on youtube, and couldn't find any besides yours. You filled a necessary niche.
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  1310. Another great video - thanks!
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  1311. Ah yeah, the famous singaporean cats. Not as memetic as japanese cats, but has also got outstanding purring capabilities.
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  1312. Love your videos! They always go very deep into the topic, while keeping them succinct and interesting. The last bit in this video on insights into the empowerment of civil servants was spot on. In addition to being a great analyst, you also have the maturity of being able to pinpoint the issues that can make or mar things.
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  1313. 非常好的影片 謝謝您
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  1314. Thk you ever so much; I think I finally have these down good enough to start projects. But it was hard as hell & pretty-damn lonely to figure them out almost on my own. PS: Thks for the big-picture. It helps me put the details together. For small/simple/parallel processing, FPGAs can't be beat.
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  1315. your content is very interesting.
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  1316. I'm fascinated by this stuff. Thank you. +New sub
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  1317. Hey, the Hetch Hetchy--the Bay Area's source of delicious fresh water straight from Yosemite. I remember that dam reservoir being brought up in an ESPM class at Berkeley I took during my undergrad in the 00's. Tradeoffs of environmental remediation and restoring the natural landscape versus leisure use and old timey boomers' favorite make-out spot. Also, all that water storage which helps with low rainfall years. Yeah. Go Bears(!).
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  1318. South Africa ! The home of everybody
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  1319. That was profound. A nice intermission between the more technical episodes.
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  1320. I've done projects with TSMC but never been there. I would love to visit their mountains. Thanks for the pictures!
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  1321. Real. The HSR has been operated for more than a decade, and every time when I headed to Tainan HSR station I just feel a little bit upset about the distance between the city and the station. It would have been much better if the station is close to the old city or Xinshi/Shanhua.
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  1322.  @Asianometry  Thank you. I will go search it out. Your channel, and the Cold Fusion channel, are THE BEST
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  1323. This is something I never knew I wanted.
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  1324. Most informative and interesting as always! 😃
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  1325. I really appreciate how you clearly are passionate about this stuff and you share you knowledge in such a well put togewther manner. :)
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  1326. Nice work. Widlar and Pease were characters.
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  1327. Awesome academic jargon. This is what I like and need! Perfect morning coffee. Thank you so much!!! (Like #85)
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  1328. Great video as usual asianometry! I work as an embedded software engineer, and the last 3 year I have been working in some of the Continental's DCU modules. I felt very excited that casually you mention that particular ECU in your video ;). Happy holidays for you and all the channel followers! Thanks for your work and your excellent videos!
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  1329. Great video but I wish you made it longer with more info. Moores law is hitting cost road blocks with these machines.
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  1330. Maybe do some videos on robotics? FANUC is a good place to start.
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  1331. My father bought the families first Trinitron (21") in 1976. It was only the 2nd color TV set we purchased. The first was a 25" Zenith in 1971. The Zenith disappeared by 1982, but the Trinitron was still working, when sent off to an e-waste center in 2009. Though it was replaced by a 27" Trinitron, in the living room, in 1994, due to the tube getting dimmer, as that's what just happens to all CRTs over time. The old set went to my Mom's bedroom, until disposal. Electronics was expensive back then. My father paid somewhere over $600 for the 21" Trinitron in 1976, but not from a store, but new, in the box, from someone's house. That was at a bargain price, and I guess "it fell off a truck", as they use to say. Good thing, it wasn't "a box of rocks", as that also often occurred.
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  1332. Man, the last minute if this video got fckn raunchy. Incredible work. Thank you.
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  1333. Well, since everybody is posting requests for you to do more videos about this and that, Could you do a video about Britney Spears and her influence on Chips? You know like with dips... 😂 LOve your work. I always learn a lot about thinks I didn't even know I wanted to know about.
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  1334. I worked for sun Microsystems for quite a number of years, I think about 25 or 26. So I totally understand how awesome Sun Microsystems was having started with them back in 1987. But before I worked at Sun Microsystems I worked at Apollo computer for about 4 and 1/2 years. What people forget is that Apollo computer actually came up with their workstation running a proprietary operating system called aegis and they shipped their first product in 1981 with the company starting in 1980. In fact when I went to work at Sun microsystems, I still felt that the Apollo computer hardware and software was Superior. In fact I would say it took son three or four more years before the software and easy Network connectivity came to be the same as Apollos. But I will say one thing about Sun that Apollo could never do, and that was the son understood how to meet customer needs. Apollo had very custom hardware and therefore costlier hardware where Sun would take a lot of things off the shelf. Not only that Apollo would always go for the highest performance, and Sun would go for the sort of performance that people expected, and that alone would cause their hardware and therefore product pricing to be lower. They hit the customer sweet spots, or Apollo was just too expensive. But even more critical than that even, sun Microsystems gave their sales force tremendous latitude. When sun and Apollo were duking it out in competition with a customer, son allowed their sales force to have much greater latitude in throwing in bargains and deals where Apollo had to make their customer sales force go back to the main sales people taking a lot of time. Sun Microsystems salespeople would win deals just because Apollo salespeople could not react fast enough. So all in all, Sun Microsystems had a much better corporation because even though I talked only about two companies back then, at one point in probably the early 90s there were easily JAWS companies.... And Jaws was an acronym for just another workstation. It was a dog eat dog business, and that's why sons total company infrastructure and incentives worked so well against all others!
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  1335. my top channel right now, keep going!
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  1336. We've been talking already! I tried to link my course but it got spam binned I think.
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  1337. Thanks alot for this overview on Open Source Semiconductor Design Tools, very happy to know there are some amazing projects ongoing, cheers from france, love your content.
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  1338. nice video bro... keep it up...💖
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  1339. 5:15 did you say he lost to a Korean fish? I know I misheard that. But that is hilarious.
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  1340. It's available on his patreon as an early access.
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  1341. Thank you for providing such diverse content, it’s hard to find quality, easily accessible English-language content on the topics you cover. Really appreciate quality of your videos
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  1342. Thanks. An idea : a video on Cymer light source !
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  1343. You should end every video by asking for like/comment/subscribe. Also you should pin a comment asking for topic ideas. You don't necessarily need to listen to the comments, but the boosted engagement will make the YouTube algorithm will share your videos more widely.
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  1344. I remember when the Nvidia Geforce 256 came out. It gave fast fps with Quake 3. That my 3DFX Voodoo 3 could not. And with 3DFX died out.
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  1345. Breakdown recent publications or research from academic research groups. If you consolidate and discuss publications that would be very useful.
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  1346. great analysis sir, would love to hear your thoughts on Xiaomi's antiprofit regime and decisions to limit margins? their stock performance looks to be relatively decent given its communist mantras
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  1347. Taiwan beer!!!My favourite!!!! So cheap only cost 35ntd(1dollar)
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  1348. If you think that's bad, there are knockoff Chinese cigarettes that have been found to contain feces in them. So you might end up smoking a poop stick.
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  1349. Hi Jon. When i listen to you, a term Mentat comes to mind :-) Dense, almost palpable information stream uniform with your voice. I really enjoy those hunks of knowledge.
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  1350. Thanks for bringing this little known incident to light. Get ready for an invasion by the 50c army.
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  1351.  @Asianometry  4:23 I like how you subtly said "what are the tax incentives" twice LOL. Very accurate!
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  1352. Better than the current trend of being loud and extending the video by 50% by including unfunny jokes and editting instead of just conveying the information.
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  1353. I’ve never commented on your videos, and I have watched most of them. This is by far the most interesting one, thanks for covering it.
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  1354. During my school farewell I remember buying a double sided tie to go with my shirt and pants. The tie was from Louis Vuitton. When I went to buy the tie except the one I purchased everything else was a bland boring colour. That was the last thing I purchased from Louis Vuitton.
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  1355. Bro I’ve been following you since you had no subs. You turned 100 to 149k subs real quick! Let’s see that writing style, in-depth analysis and entertaining commentary turned up! Let’s go 200k!
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  1356. Laser in itself does not cause debris. Hitting things so hard with lasers that they turn into plasma causes debris. They're basically "boiling" the tin droplets so hard they turn hotter than "white hot". Think "super heated tin steam". But once the temperature drops some it turns back into tin... where ever it ended up after being vaporized.
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  1357. Your voice sounds strained in this episode... I hope you didn't take that bonehead, who said you sounded boring, too seriously. I'd personally rather listen to someone who sounds relaxed and with a bit slower pacing, as it gives me more time to reflect on what is being said.
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  1358. Great video, I am astonished at your ability to dive into different industries and come up with well research analyses in such a short time. Keep up the good work but please take care of yourself and don´t burn up, we will be here even if you take more time. Thanks a lot.
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  1359. man...i always learn something new every time i watch one of your videos. after a while i don't even know which video i saw what information because they are all so good and just all meld together... like a melt... of wafers. :-)
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  1360. Dear deer...😌😍
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  1361. Great self-introduction video haha
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  1362. Informative vid, thanks.
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  1363. duddeee i'm from taiwan and u know more about taiwan than me
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  1364. We do love our convenience stores here! Thanks for making such a thorough and informative video. Stores these days are providing more and more services such as sending/receiving parcels, laundry, and even draft beer. I'm truly amazed by how much the staff needs to learn 😂
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  1365. Very proud to see professor Bampi's work being cited here. Hits my heart ❤️
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  1366. Thank you for making this video. Your content is interesting and your voice is pleasant to listen to.
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  1367. 7:01 --- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHMAZING
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  1368. I'll say this again. Yours is a criminally undersubscribed channel.
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  1369.  @Asianometry  100K subs means top 10 in my country :)
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  1370. Great video mate, unlike a lot of the other videos on YT about Kowloon, you were actually informative. Subbed
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  1371.  @Asianometry  Nice, thanks!
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  1372. Another awesome video from one of my favorite channels for Asian history. So glad I subbed! Keep it up!!
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  1373. Hi Jon! As always, you have hit the right mix of the history of industrial policy and current affairs.
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  1374. Fantastic! One of the absolutely best, most informative and enlightening videos I've seen in a long time! Thank you for your deep and knowledgeable insights!
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  1375. Highly informative 🙏
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  1376.  @Asianometry  It's interesting because, we live in New Zealand and quite often hear only one side of the story, I.e.the Communist were the villains, I am currently in Taiwan on holiday, and I am beginning to understand or realise that there are different sides and angles to this story.
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  1377. Thank you Morris Chang for your vision
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  1378. thank you Jo(h)n. You are the best youtuber for research, fact-finding, documenting and humour. Really appreciated :)
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  1379. the unique aspect of the Chinese in South Africa was how they operated at the fringes of a legalized segregation framework imho. Perhaps parallels could be drawn to the Mississippi Delta Chinese or some other parts of the world.
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  1380. your my favorite channel, I know it was a short video, but i'm so jelous you get to travel around Asia and make the dankest videos ;), lets get this guy a million subs.
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  1381.  @Asianometry  🤣🤣🤣 Don't I wish, met him once though, nice guy. I'm a bit taller
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  1382. Hi , thank you so much for making this episode,I have waited this topic for a long time. There are also few economical index you can check out , the Taiwanese gdp growth is no longer compared with salaries growth since 2002 the labor output doesn’t make same feedback https://ibb.co/MM8092X and if you compared to Korea which have almost same industry structure with Taiwan you will find out where the problem is The Taiwanese Tertiary sector shrinkage in past 10 years https://ibb.co/BsJmRr5 And sadly i must to say I don’t think Taiwanese government have figured out the real problem, they are always focusing on ICT goods export and manufacturing industry which gross margin is lower and lower nowadays
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  1383. Taiwan should build cities in the nearby ocean. Literally in it. Engineering, productivity, and tourism would take off like a rocket.
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  1384. I joined the patreon and your newsletter. Good work! ☺️
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  1385. lol "umm, no" as in "thanks but no thanks"?
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  1386. Costa Rica in the comments right on! Loving asianometry
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  1387. asianometry Yea thank you for the good work also!
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  1388. I think this channel should be re-named to something more reflecting the chip manufacturing and design theme its videos carry... i think more people will get interrested into videos = more patreons and so on....
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  1389. You really are one of my favourite creators. I found your channel in 2022 and am ever so grateful for it. U do amazing job with research in your videos. Looking forward to many more of it !
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  1390. Needs to be Shared More this Story
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  1391. Fun to watch! Great piece.
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  1392. Thanks for the video!👍
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  1393. Great video. I Like your channel and your expertise in silicon and semiconductors. Hope to see more. Greetings from Germany.
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  1394. Do you or will you ever do a video on the analog semiconductor space? I'd love to hear your thoughts on Texas Instrument or even the Analog Devices + Maxim Integrated deal.
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  1395. Great to see some early transistor history! My father grew up in Eastern Washington state and is a professor of Electrical Engineering (in semiconductor lasers). For the past decade or so when we visit his old hometown (Omak, WA) we take a quick trip to Tonasket WA to try to find the original Brattain homestead. My dad was always excited that someone who came out of a tiny town in Eastern Washington, riding on horseback, went on to great success shaping the semiconductor industry and won a Nobel prize. We've tracked out over some pretty wild lands, but haven't found conclusive evidence of the old Brattain homestead yet.
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  1396.  @Asianometry  Plus you have to watch out for your family if they are in China, I don't know, I completely understand what you mean, it's the education system they just don't allow critical thinking and proper debating anymore. I grew up in a negative environment so the negative comments can really mess up your psyche sometimes too so that I understand. Yeah I will look into it.
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  1397. "Source: Literally me" ==> very funny. The Baoshan Reservoir II (not I) is indeed overflowing. I've been visiting there quite a lot out of curiosity. Typhoon might be coming later this week.
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  1398. great video! would still love to see an overview on umc
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  1399.  @Asianometry  Do you know anything about how much contact the Taiwanese had with people living outside of Taiwan, and how easy/difficult it was to travel in and out of Taiwan (including to Mainland Japan)? I also think that it would be interesting to research the history of Taiwanese refugees who fled to Mainland China and other regions during the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan, and during the beginning of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan. It will also be interesting to research the relationship between Taiwanese and Japanese people during the Colonial Period. I live in Australia, and I'm somewhat unique because I'm a fourth-generation Chinese Australian. I told my art teacher this one time and she told me that it's quite common, even though I've never personally met any other people who are anything more than 3rd-gen Chinese Australian, and this is even the case though I attend a high school which is (coincidentally) roughly 60% ethnically-Chinese. Whilst Australia only abolished the White Australia Policy back in 1973, Chinese were still migrating less frequently to Australia before that time, and large Chinese migrations to Australia occurred historically, during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s-1860s, and also during the latter half of the Chinese Civil War. However, I'm not descended from these types of Chinese immigrants. Instead, through my maternal grandmother, I'm descended from Chinese people originating from Taiwan who were brought to Australia from Indonesia as Japanese Prisoners-of-War. My great great grandfather had allegedly fled Taiwan in 1895 following the Japanese Invasion, choosing to migrate to Java, Dutch Indonesia as a refugee. In 1936, my great great grandfather travelled back to Taiwan in order to retrieve a wife for his son, my great grandmother, and he brought her back to Java. My great grandmother, who was allegedly a distant relative of my great grandfather, was born and raised in Japanese Taiwan, and she had never formally lost her Japanese/Taiwanese nationality even whilst living in Indonesia; my grandmother has explained to me that both of her parents were Stateless, though I'm not so sure that my grandmother even has access to reliable records of nationality. In December 1941, my great grandparents and my great great grandparents living in Indonesia were arrested by the Dutch Indonesian Government and were deported to Australia for temporary internment during WWII, lasting until March 1946. During their internment in Australia, my grandmother was born here, receiving an Australian birth certificate, essentially signifying Australian citizenship. My great grandfather was apparently an intelligent man; he knew how to speak English, and he taught English whilst living in the camp; he probably even taught some Japanese people. However, my family hated the Japanese, I've been told, considering the Japanese to be the enemy, and being hostile to them even though many had been living outside of Japan for decades. My great grandparents and other Taiwanese in the internment camp for Japanese civilians wrote numerous letters to the Chinese consulate (presumably in Melbourne) to be repatriated to China, rather than Japan. Of course, with the realisation that Taiwan was now under Chinese control, rather than Japanese, my family begged to be returned to Taiwan Province. A Japanese ship called the "Yoizuki", with a Japanese captain, came to Sydney to pick up the Japanese and Taiwanese internees and repatriate them to their respective homelands. This caused panic amongst the Taiwanese, and one of my relatives is quoted as (roughly) saying to a prison guard "If they send me to Japan, please give me your revolver so I can shoot myself in the head." My family was successfully repatriated to Taiwan, Republic of China, sometime during mid-1946. They continued to live in Taiwan for several years, but they eventually abandoned the island in 1952, for reasons which are as of yet unknown to me. My grandmother then spent the rest of her young life living in Indonesia, with her parents having chosen to return to this country. Later, my grandmother traveled to Mainland China to study (which is where my great grandfather learnt English), and then she traveled to Hong Kong, and finally, she returned to Australia in 1978, bringing her husband and daughter with her; she had always possessed Australian citizenship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatura https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Yoizuki
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  1400. This is not what I learned about the hakka from my mother. There are different sectors of so called hakka. We are the New Territories Hong Kong hakka. Hakka or hakga was given to us by the bunti (Cantonese) of Hong Kong. I was told that hakga meant black family again it was a derogatory term. We were black because of our "magic" lol but really it was our education of science and ancestral "worship". It's not worship tho it's paying respect to our lost ones. Hence that's why the bunti were afraid of us and committed genocide against us. The hakga that I know of are spread all over the world and some have forgot where they come from. We all reunite on a moon festival called "Ting Min" but while the hakga have evolved the celebrations have declined. As I'm writing this I'm thinking I might do a video. Thanks very much for this video :)
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  1401. Well made my Taiwanese comrade
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  1402. Wow Taiwan , man I wish I was there your video made look up Tainan I find Taiwan has cities with so many similar names like Tainan, Taipei and New Taipei I think
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  1403. I had no idea you had a newsletter. I'm glad you mentioned it in the video. Most don't read the descriptions below 'Show More' lol.
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  1404. Viewers of this video may be interested in the YouTube channel "PBS Eons": a fascinating look into the history of life on Earth.
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  1405. Nice video btw
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  1406. I prefer taiwanese beer over korean ones
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  1407. Been waiting for your review on this. Thank you!
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  1408. Astonishing video!!Youtube recommended me this channel!!!
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  1409. I was hoping so hard that you would sing the song 😊
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  1410. I don't know any modern christian who thinks Jesus is white. I've also noticed in past christian material jesus is always adapted to have the racial appearance of the local populace, e.g. Black Jesus for Africa, Asian Jesus for Asian countries.
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  1411. For anybody reading this comment, checkout this channel's "TSMC - Essays" playlist for more videos!
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  1412. Another great tech history video! Thanks.
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  1413. Great video ! I do hope every Taiwanese can speak fluent American English like you do, therefore Taiwan should have more positive influence on the world.
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  1414. Its a shame that your channel is not wellknown
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  1415. There is a big problem with the quality of staff in US. Without trained workers who are focused, TSMC will have to import workers from Taiwan. Local USA people won't be capable of the job at TSMC, I think. Love Taiwan. (KaVaLan video coming I hope???)
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  1416. Thanks for an interesting video.
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  1417. Let's hit a flying tin droplet with a laser not once, but twice.
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  1418. Fantastic, another example of why I am a happy Patreon supporter. Great place to learn!
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  1419. thank you for awesome video and posted on reddit
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  1420. How did you comment on this 2 months before it was posted?
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  1421. BANGER VIDEO
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  1422. I'm on the VFX industry and didn't know Weta's story apart from LotR! Great job!
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  1423. Your essays on anything litho tech are my favorite by far...we would love a deep dive on all subsystems! This video was epic! Keep up the excellent work as you have many fans!
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  1424. This is such a good introduction to cool startups in Taiwan! I would love to try out Sensay (or something similar to practice Chinese, instead of English) BTW, I couldn't go to the Festival, so thank you for sharing what you liked, so we don't miss any of the cool things happening here!
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  1425. Checkout out his entire library of playlists! If you have even a passing interest in technology, I recommend the playlist "TSMC - Essays" about the worlds leading chip manufacturer called Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. Yes it's a mouthful, but most of the world's best tech companies use TSMC to make their high end chips (from Apple processors to AMD processors to NVidia graphics cards). A few years ago TSMC took the lead with the most advanced chip manufacturing process and became the king of chip making (Intel held that crown for decades). The world hasn't caught up with TSMC not being a household name like Intel is. I find it fascinating that little Taiwan is punching above its weight and creating world class companies!
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  1426. 8:21 I love that baseball pitch flying punch, we need more special moves in baseball.
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  1427. Synopsis and cadence both have their own respective data as well
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  1428. There is a propaganda war going on right now between the Pan-Blue and the Pan-Green and the Communists. Information such as this will always remain difficult to procure or present for the foreseeable future. Btw, great video.
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  1429. Another great video!
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  1430. Jon, this video reminds me that I would enjoy a video on the historical development of SOI in comparison with the bulk stuff or High-K metal gate.
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  1431. liking the videos so far
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  1432. The problem I see are the backlog of defaults in SOEs/Partnerships funded by localities that have reached nearly $500B in recent months. China Central Bank has push more back to regions. “Everything is connected” is the issue and the problem. While 3D nand is a good move, the issue is the complex debt issues.
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  1433. Silicon wafers are my most favorite snack.
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  1434. Great video! Heavy on the jokes...
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  1435. Hi I enjoy your video so much , I suggested that you can make a video about salary and consumption in Taiwan compared to all the other “Tigers “ because so many people focus on low salaries issue problem here in Taiwan and if you compared to SK and SG Taiwanese income is stop growing since 2002
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  1436. I totally agree with you. I believe Taiwan is lacking a new class of investors that have more appetite for risk and global ambitions. My experience tells me there are more VCs willing to invest in late stage startups rather the early stages. One startup told me many startups get fundings from their families who already run sizable enterprises. This is a sad phenomenon where a country’s next generation of entrepreneurs or business leaders are largely “inherited” from wealthy families rather than based on merits like doctors, engineers and other professions. Instead of creating mega size internet companies, I think Taiwan should focus on the SaaS industry where novel, valuable solutions can scale very quickly and capex is rather low. I do think the lack of English skills and direction connection with the western world hinder many Taiwanese people from understanding their problems and culture, thus preventing them from creating solutions that meet their needs. Correct me if I am wrong, successful Israeli companies seem to know better how their products will fly in the U.S. Finally it’s marketing. Morris Chang has identified that as a TW weakness since the founding of TSMC. I personally don’t think it improved much since then; I recently saw one ad from one of the largest TW companies in ESL level english. For internet companies where branding and mindshare may play critical roles in a company’s success, they really need to elevate their marketing game.
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  1437. It seems to me all you have to do is make one of those machines that makes semiconductors... And you make a easy couple billion... Let me go to home depot real quick...
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  1438. Brilliantly clear. Thank you.
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  1439. Great video man. I've just finished my first term in MSc Digital Systems Engineering, it was so insanely hard, but I loved it. Particularly using cadence for layout. I seem to have a knack for layout 😎
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  1440. Smart commentary, research, and summaries here - well done!
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  1441. Fascinating chapter in the city's history. I dig your stuff man.
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  1442. Great video!
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  1443. HImax Technologies was part of UMC too (they make "cpu" for screens)
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  1444. My man almost at that 400k mark! Watched the content get better and you blow up. Don’t lose steam bro 💪🏽💪🏽
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  1445. I heard you on the China Talk podcast 👍congratulations on the higher profile
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  1446. Thanks, unknown history!
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  1447. Another great and informative video. Here's a comment for the YouTube algorithm
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  1448. I think, I have said it before. But think your videos are really good. I feel that learn a lot every time, and that you take a well-balanced approach to difficult topics. Off course, this is easy for me to say, sins I have no skin in the game. Still I feel you are doing a great job, and I hope to visit Taiwan someday. Keep up the good work.
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  1449. As always, a great informative video.
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  1450. For more great stories on natural history, I highly recommend the YouTube channel PBS Eons (see direct link below)
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  1451. For another excellent minidocumentary from this channel, checkout the video titled The Geopolitics of Taiwanese Pork Imports
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  1452. I really enjoyed it. Is this the part where I start screaming at you now?
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  1453. Here i come bro!!
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  1454. A video on china's dependence on australian iron ore, and the difference with the Japanese steel companies of the 90s
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  1455. I loved the video, how about the future of Russian economy? I think it is still very reliant on resources as oil. Would love to learn more about it from you!
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  1456. Thank you for the video
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  1457. This totally went over my head, but I still enjoy trying to learn about it.
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  1458. I fucking love your essay‘s. Thanks for bringing light into these topics. There are so many great Tech Channels up and running right now.. what a time to be alive.
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  1459. Can you talk about MEMS design, manufacturing, companies etc ? thx
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  1460. I still want to understand how silkworms can produce silk. I'ts like they know that they are capable of, the smug little worms. Get on it, Asianometry!
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  1461. Holy shi* you blew my mind at the end there with your outro. When I get my gwuap up imma hop on ur patreon bro! Ik ur gonna be a world leader some fay
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  1462. This is great! I've been curious about the history of Taipei's MRT; however, I was too lazy to look it up. Found this in recommended videos. For once, a good video in my feed.
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  1463. Interesting! Thanks for the insight.
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  1464. Goood morning from australia! great video btw I have thinking about this topic for a few weeks now.
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  1465. Superb insight, thank you! As an archivist, I’m an advocate of magnetic tape
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  1466. Your narrative is wonderful and inspiring.
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  1467. Naah, I was first
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  1468. Good channel run by an intelligent man.
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  1469. Man great content. I think this is gonna be my first substack subscription
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  1470. I appreciate the effort you put into pronouncing names correctly, shows that you care.
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  1471. Brilliant
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  1472. So much info in this video. I had to watch several times to understand
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  1473. Thanks, great job. We appreciate your work.
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  1474. Great video as usual!! Just a thought , you could do better if you change the title like "how ships got bigger"!!
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  1475. Thank you very much for your contribution, I enjoy it!
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  1476. another vote from me too! :)
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  1477. Awesome video and explanation...TSMC is one hell of a gem having an immense pricing power with higher yields with virtually no real competition around....Its just one hell of pure play foundry..... thank you for the video
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  1478. I fully agree! 👍
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  1479. Amazing episode, as always...Extremely informative
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  1480. Apparently neon gas is a key element in producing semiconductors - and Ukraine is like the biggest exporter of it… could you pls whip up a video on that? Cheers dude 😁
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  1481. Another great video. I can see a rise in subscribers. You sure deserve good compensation for all the great research effort.
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  1482. Thank you for this video. This was exactly the research I have been doing and appreciated the information here. Could I connect with you I have some other questions?
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  1483. Nice video! imec is also a major silicon photonics center, both for research and as a foundry. Probably the most advanced academic SiP foundry with a MPW offering and directly competitive with leading industrial foundries.
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  1484. Outstanding vid, bud! Keep up the great work; you're producing some of the best and most balanced China content on YouTube.
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  1485. WHAT ABOUT AMERICA!!! 😏
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  1486. Yukon Huang has very interesting views on corruption in China. The issue that China has is that since the government is so involved in the economy, corruption actually allows companies to function more like if they were in a market economy, allowing more efficiency, more growth etc. This means that almost everybody in China is involved in corruption. Party/government officials, corrupt. SOEs, corrupt. Large foreign firms, large Chinese firms, medium sized Chinese firms, and a good portion of small Chinese firms, all corrupt. So now the top levels of the CCP say 'No more corruption!' But everybody, including Xi and the PSC, knows that nothing will get done if people actually have to follow the letter of the law, so it just becomes a purge of those who are politically inconvenient, as well as a few of the most egregious cases of corruption regardless of politics in order to save face.
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  1487. This is one of the best YouTube channels. Thanks for the great video
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  1488. Dude, lovely channel!
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  1489. Thanks again for all the effort you put into these videos. And I am glad you feel better - you certainly sound better! Human nature is strange. Sometimes it's good and worth it to stick through difficult times, sometimes it's totally wrong and can almost kill you - and nobody knows in advance what is right! All the best for 2024! Asia is quite far away from Switzerland, so it's unrealistic we ever meet in person, but that's just the way this strange YT-thing works 😉
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  1490. Brouhaha is just another word that means "commotion"
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  1491. Great video!
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  1492. First video of yours I've seen, glad the algorithms brought me to you, I look forward to seeing more in the future.
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  1493. You always surprise me with such a versatile portfolio of videos. Everytime something new and interesting!
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  1494. Interesting history, thanks for sharing.
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  1495. I’ve found Taiwan Beer in the states and it’s really good! I weirdly never found it when I lived in China, it was all Tsingtao there. Interesting to hear the history behind it.
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  1496. Decently elaborated, as a native Taiwanese and an alcoholic myself, it's always nice to learn histories of brewery factories.
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  1497. I think the "cheaper researchers" argument doesn't really hold much water when a company is as leading-edge as TSMC. It will definitely work when a company is still in a trend-follower's position in the market. but as soon as it becomes leading edge, keeping R&D cheaper just by keeping reseracher wage low can't be sustainable.
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  1498. Really enjoyed that one. You mentioned Morris Chang is finishing his second volume of his autobiography. Is volume 1 out? I'd love to read those too. PS, i'd love to see a dive into Skywater Technology one day if you're interested. Thanks for the great content!
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  1499. Is there any evidence that the Central Government is doing something substantial to curb the usage of cigarettes? Given that production is state-owned, there must be a lot of opposition against anti-smoking campaigns. Or the effects of anti-smoking campaigns would be grossly inflated, yet cigarette sales grow at more or less expected rate.
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  1500. Really interesting. Very well done. Thanks!
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  1501. He's not swift like a coursing river
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  1502. another interesting topic, thank you so much. Edit: Would you consider doing a post about shadow puppetry? Sorry if this comes off as rude/demanding.
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  1503.  @Asianometry  Thanks for the reply. I very much enjoy the newsletter too! Its very useful and interesting to find this kind of content in English for non Chinese speaker like myself.
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  1504. Love this content. Keep it up!
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  1505. Love you content man.
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  1506. Thanks again for all of these awesome videos!! You rock :D
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  1507. thank you and posted to reddit
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  1508. Great video :)
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  1509. Like ur work. Keep doing em mate
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  1510. Can you do a video on nanoscale photonics fabrication ? Can TSCM and traditional fabs supprt Indium Phosphide, Galium Arsenide and polymer based layers to make photonic device on die ? These are already done for optical transceivers for switches but there is talk of wafer and die scale light based data transport coming up to deal with the heat issues of high frequency data planes on die.
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  1511. You nailed Hijink, and another great upload. Thanks!
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  1512. Congratulations on the 140k subscribers John! I noticed this is the first video where you don't mention your goal of 100k in the end (still did in the video 4 days ago) so there seems to have been a bit of a jump. It's well deserved and I'm sure my personal appreciation for your well researched and detailed videos is shared by most of these subscribers. Good luck for the future of this channel as well as your other endeavors.
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  1513. good video :)
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  1514. This was a nice snapshot into the Taiwan start-up space.
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  1515. Super interesting take on the AI revolution…. Through the eyes of asianometry! Great work Jon! The future of automobiles is full of semiconductors…. Automatic braking is going to save lives and tons of dough… Vehicle spacing is a nice way to get more vehicles through the same volume of space over time… Jensen Huang, CEO of NVDA, would make a fantastic guest on your channel!!! NVDA has a small business making semiconductors for the automotive business… that business is starting to grow…. When looking for your next car…. See if you can find the small logo ‘NVDA inside’ boldy placed where everyone can see it. 😃
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  1516. Yup, I posted a comment, and there you have it, I got spammed by the account -- and to others, please read carefully, the name of the account is "pinned by Asianometry", not simply "Asianometry", so NO, it's not Asianometry.
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  1517. Cows cows cows cows cows cows TSMC cows cows cows. 😆
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  1518. Another great topic and video! John you are on fire! Thanks for all your hard work.
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  1519. I have been here. The deer park in Nara is quite amazing.
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  1520. hi
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  1521. GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!
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  1522. Great channel. Keep them coming.
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  1523. Great video. I personally hated doing verification on FPGA.
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  1524. HK has lands but they spent two decades on politics and the economy happily controlled by the big four tycoons. I think their gov finally has a chance learn how to govern but they messed up already on the pandemic and the underlying political issue hasn't resolved. Not looking good short term but they have deep pockets and excellent resources, so if they can find a good CE, HK may able to bring the glory back.
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  1525. Great video. Keep up the good work.
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  1526. Interesting. As a Taipei dweller, I will need to check it out.
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  1527. Love it, keep it on. That's the content that missing from IT education, and it's fascinating.
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  1528. Great video. Another great job.
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  1529. ​ @Asianometry  Doctrine of the Mean Cpt 14: (attributed to Zisi, the only grandson of Confucius ) "The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. // In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position." I suppose the statement could be read as such.
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  1530. Another great video Jon. Thank you.
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  1531. Natural species indigenous to the region Must be protected conserved
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  1532. I love your videos. I subscribed to your newsletter
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  1533. Thoroughly enjoyed this one! Part 2 when?
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  1534. can you imagine if they dropped one on delivery lol ;O
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  1535. Great video
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  1536. Amazing videos long time watcher keep it up!
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  1537. Nice, I can see my house on that first aerial map in Australia. Cheers
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  1538. Jon, I just want to say thank you for pronouncing Kerala correctly. Every youtuber who speaks english somehow mispronounces it all the time.
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  1539. Just wanted to say that I find your videos and newsletter extremely entertaining and well researched! My personal favourites would be your videos on the water situation in Hong Kong as a colony and your video on the Sino Vietnam War. Both topics that I had almost no knowledge on. Would you consider making a video on the "Lost Army" otherwise known as the Yunnan Anti-communist National Salvation Army?
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  1540. Man... the way you conclude your videos is just poetic :)
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  1541. The traffic IS brutal. Took me 2 hours during a peak day morning from the city center to the science park.
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  1542. This is really cool....unlike the heat you were in. 35c, or 95F for my fellow Americans, is pretty damn hot. It's been that same temperature here in NJ for the past month, my sympathies.
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  1543. Would you ever like to get tea in taipei? I love your videos and am curious on how you see taiwan manufacturing and business. I have a startup in the fitness space here.
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  1544. NANO DOUGH
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  1545. Really enjoying your random vlog content / mini-documentaries, like your earlier videos on Chiang Kai-shek Statue Park and Kaohsiung Pier 2 Art Center. Also if the growth in hard drive capacity and archival is any indication, it's likely your video will continue to be freely available on YouTube for many hundreds of years, long after the museum has closed down and been long forgotten. Thanks for documenting it.
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  1546. Awesome production. Subbed.
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  1547. Great video as always, thank you for your work. The story, narration, images, jokes are all amazing.
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  1548. Cheers from Qijin
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  1549. Speaking of feedback, the acronym 'MRT' in the video title should be replaced with "Mass Rapid Transit system". With only a little bit of polish, this channel has the ability to grow into having a CGPGrey or Wendover Productions level audience.
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  1550.  @Asianometry  Yes I absolutely agree, after the riots, ICAC was formed and changed Hong Kong at its present state. I also enjoyed the ICAC episode.
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  1551. I am more curious about what happen after the bust like everyone is much well off or there is a mass in unemployment.
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  1552. So how likely is a unified Korea to try and take back this land? Would they attempt to invade this land in a similar fashion that Russia annexed Crimea?
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  1553. Thanks for your research and presentation Jon. Again. clear and straight forward, yet detailed.
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  1554. Me too...
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  1555. Thank you for putting this together for us. You deserve more followers. Your mom was right, I feel asleep the other day at bedtime listening to your paper.
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  1556. Keep going no matter how weird things get. Good and interesting video.
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  1557. Great video Asianometry. Keep em coming!
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  1558. 13:32 It's pronounced baker-light, not backer-light
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  1559. Great historical document of forgotten technology!
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  1560. Another fantastic piece of research. Thank you so much.
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  1561. Another fantastic video. Thanks!
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  1562. Excellent summation. Thank you.
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  1563. Thank you for the video the most information I've heard yet
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  1564. The strategy of developing cutting edge tech and then using that to outcompete even less advanced foundries at larger sizes is genius. not only are they in first place, then also throw rocks into the paths of those that might catch up to them eventually. Though its hugely capital intensive and might become unstable when it becomes more and more time consuming to develop next gen processes (like sub-N3)
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  1565. Hey, thanks for all your work. You're the best! Owned a number of Trinitrons. Back in the day, my dad did a lot of work with the Japanese in Japan and brought one of these back before they were available in the U.S. All the neighbors used to come over to watch it. Fast forward to today. Just took delivery of a new Sony. What a disappointment! They've somehow got hooked up with Google and their "smart" tv software. I won't bore you with the gory details but his thing is an expensive joke.
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  1566. Man, this is great content - keep up the nice work!
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  1567. Wow this was a really great video. Gj mate
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  1568. Hey this is really interesting~! I didn't think that you would go into something so labour intensive. I'm actually from the furniture industry and I run a factory in China. Singapore has also a very strong manufacturing tradition. In many ways they are the same; labour intensive, require skilled workers, and trend of OEM and exporting to the western countries etc.
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  1569. love the term 'watering hole' no mum im not having a bath im going to the watering hole
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  1570. Thank for the amazing content. :-)
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  1571. hi
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  1572. For viewers who enjoy Asianometry, I recommend watching videos by PolyMatter (China), Wendover Productions (Aircraft+Logistics), Caspian Report (Geopolitics), VisualPolitik (Geopolitics), CGPGrey, Johnny Harris (Vice / New York Times video journalist). For more China specific videos, serpentza/laowhy86/advchina has some gold (among lots of clickbait). You may also like Cheddar and Quartz (for random topics), and Newsthink (SpaceX/Tesla/Elon Musk), ColdFusion TV (future tech focused), RealEngineering, CuriousDroid (mostly engineering focused)
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  1573. You should do a Video on the Kingdom of Tungning and its modern parallels with the KMT.
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  1574. Allah bless you great video
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  1575. Wow you are good... your videos are amazing
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  1576. Wow thats so interesting! Its crazy how little people here in germany know about china, never heard of this company and they own all of the games i really played
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  1577. It is very good because it's niche, and a well sourced video essay
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  1578. Thank you for all the semiconductor vedios. I transitioned from telecom industry to semiconductor and was completely lost. Your vedios saved me. And set me off on this wonderful journey of learning.
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  1579. Thank you for blessing us this year and even for maintaining other works from previous years. You adhere to a brutal research and production cycle, and I find amazing that you can you can explain nm scale fabrication and still do great historical videos.
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  1580. Thanks for making the videos, I'm a new subscriber but I've binged on tens of your videos on your channel multiple times, All due to incredible depth, great research and amazing narration. I Hope to see more videos from in the next year, hopefully few more on India.
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  1581. The archivist in me wishes you recorded the name tag for every cup
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  1582. Have you looked at analog computing/chips for machine learning? I remember reading that they can be advantageous for certain tasks in the training workstream.
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  1583. I learned a lot from you. Bang Yong Hin.
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  1584. For the San Bruno shops, they are/were planning on tearing that mall (tanforan) down for office space. I doubt that's happening since commercial office took a hit
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  1585. Individually they weigh nearly 70 ton or almost as much as your mom lol i've never heard any jokes on this channel except this one.
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  1586. There are some drone shots looking top down above the barrage. There u can clearly see the different colors od the water on each side.
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  1587. Video with great contents,, needmore comment so become trending
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  1588. Man you make some good videos
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  1589. For a while there was a Beer Flavoured Green Tea beer. I quite liked it, although suspect it was quite artificial.
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  1590. very interesting, exciting even! a historical perspective is always the cream.
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  1591. Very serine snapshot of a place I never intend to visit! But I find the interesting historical background always fascinating. Thanks for making these video (and all the others on your channel). You have a very underrated channel.
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  1592. A higher level yet of dry humor, drink one up Asianometry!
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  1593. Great video with great substance. Thanks for sharing man. I would also add that there are other players in the market like Applied material and Lam research (founded by Chinese immigrant ).
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  1594. Thank you for making this video. You have brought me into a better perspective of understanding the forces at play here.
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  1595. wow was thinking this. Thanks for content.
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  1596.  @Asianometry  Keep doing what you're doing, but decolonization in Asia is a great subject to look into. My personal favourite videos of yours are the Chinese Civil War and KMT withdrawal to Taiwan. We don't hear much about the RoC/Taiwan in Canada (for obvious reasons), so videos on that are of great interest.
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  1597.  @Asianometry  I recently traveled to Hong Kong, where I met my grandmother's cousin, who is in her early-50s, I believe. She is half-Taiwanese and half-Chinese from Beijing. She was born and raised in Mainland China, before migrating to Hong Kong; her husband's family has been living in Hong Kong since the early to mid-1900s. My relative in Hong Kong is pro-Chinese Unification, though none of her ancestors has ever lived in Japanese Taiwan, because her father grew up in Indonesia and Australia, whereas her paternal grandparents emigrated from Taiwan in 1895, in order to escape Japanese rule. So, none of her ancestors has ever lived under Japanese rule in Taiwan. At the same time, her mother comes from Beijing, and would have had a strictly-Chinese upbringing. Edit: According to my relative in Hong Kong, our family has lived in Taiwan for 35 generations, though these claims seem rather dubious. The only person within my family who lived in Japanese Taiwan was my maternal grandmother's mother, who was born in Japanese Taiwan in 1918, and who emigrated from Taiwan in 1936. She is the only person who would have been directly affected by the experience of living under Japanese rule. I met my great grandmother when I was a young child. I was born in Adelaide, South Australia, whereas my great grandmother was living in Sydney at the time of my birth. My immediate family migrated to Sydney when I was young, and I met my great grandmother again in 2007; at this point, I was old enough to remember meeting her. According to my grandmother, who lives nearby to me in Sydney, my great grandmother hated the Japanese. However, she knew how to speak the Japanese language. And, when my grandmother was a young child living in Taiwan and later in Indonesia, my great grandmother tried to teach her to speak Japanese, though she was apparently "lazy" and didn't end up learning Japanese. I believe that my great grandmother might not have hated Japanese people as much as my grandmother seems to think. Or maybe, she was using the logic that "to defeat your enemy, you must understand your enemy". She managed not to strangle any Japanese to death in the internment camp, so that says something, at least. Apparently, she spent her time in the camp polishing the floorboards of her living quarters with butter.
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  1598.  @Asianometry  Good idea. Except that I don't live in Taiwan. My maternal grandmother's paternal grandfather and mother were both born in Taiwan, in ~1880 and 1918, respectively. However, my maternal grandmother was born in Australia in 1944, in a POW camp for Japanese people. She was then, in 1946, repatriated to Taiwan, under the rule of the Republic of China, where she witnessed the February 28 Massacre. Then, her family migrated to Indonesia, where they had been living prior to having been captured and imprisoned during WWII. My grandmother then traveled to China and lived through the Cultural Revolution, where she met my maternal grandfather, who was a Chinese man who had been born and raised in Burma. They were married in Yunnan Province and then migrated to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, my grandmother discovered that she had possessed Australian citizenship for her entire life, due to possessing an Australian birth certificate. She contacted the Australian Embassy in Hong Kong, and they informed her that she was a full Australian citizen and that she could return to Australia. So, she returned to Australia in 1978 with my maternal grandfather and my young mother, and so my mother has grown up in Australia for most of her life, though having been born in China and having spent her early childhood living in Hong Kong. My father migrated to Australia in 1990 from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, and so I have visited China several times because of him, and I learnt about Chinese culture to a small degree as a young child. However, I have never been to Taiwan, Indonesia, or Burma. I have been to Hong Kong, though.
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  1599. Whilst it can be said that many Han Chinese people live in various regions overseas but have never lost their Han Chinese identity, it can also be said that these people have never experienced the same kinds of cultural pressures as the Taiwanese. Whilst most Overseas Chinese have been persecuted or discriminated against by foreigners for being Han Chinese, naturally making them gravitate towards the Chinese Motherland, Taiwanese people have, throughout history, been persecuted for being Taiwanese; first by the Japanese Colonisers, and later by the Chinese Mainlanders (Waishengren) who came to Taiwan as refugees in the 1940s-1950s. And whilst the other groups of Overseas Chinese have always been united by their Han Chinese identity, persecuted by local majority groups such as the Indonesians and the (White) Americans, the Taiwanese have always been united by their shared Taiwanese identity throughout their island's tumultuous history, and the Han Chinese identity has only been drifting further and further away after more and more decades of separation from Mainland China. This separation has been further exacerbated by the oppression instigated against the Taiwanese by the Mainlander Chinese immigrants during the 1940s-1990s, and the hostile threats by the Chinese Communist Party against the Taiwanese people over the decades have also not done a good job of convincing them that they are Han Chinese. "You are Han Chinese, or else!" The impression which Taiwanese people get from the Chinese Communist Party is that it's illegal for the Taiwanese to maintain their individual identity, which involves being a settler people living on a beautiful island, and also being forced to live under Japanese rule, under a Kuomintang Dictatorship, and now as a Democratic State which lacks recognition from the international community. So, this is why the Taiwanese people are not keen on reunification with China, and this is why the Taiwanese people would prefer to maintain their unique culture, identity, and way of life, which is similar to Mainland China's, but also quite different, and distinctly Taiwanese.
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  1600. Thx for making this video~ I was only 10 years old when this happened. I only knew people got robbed/killed on the island and didn't realize the political impact until today.
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  1601. I did! :D
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  1602. Hi, thanks for the great content. Subscribed to both the channel and the newsletter. May I know what's yr background? Market research (Gartner/Forrester/etc), investment management, others...? Thanks!
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  1603. Always learn something new watching your videos. Good, carry on making them. Cheers! 😀😀😀
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  1604. Raise your hand if you're watching this on something containg parts made by this machine
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  1605. @17:00 "This last paragraph sounded like a dialogue from a Star Trek movie." You got me here. I was depressed over quarrel with a landlord, you saved my day.
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  1606. Fantastic explanation once again, thanks John 🙏
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  1607. At 16:51 you said "the modern day moon landing." Just moments before I was thinking 'This makes the moon landing look easy.' Thanks for another interesting video.
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  1608. This is why I love this channel. deadpan. hilarious.
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  1609. I love asianometry.
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  1610. When's the next video?
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  1611. Very informative videos, great work!
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  1612. I love your channel!
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  1613. Hi there. I have one too. Mine starts with EC. I am one year older than you. Totally agree with you. The Taiwanese health system is great and so precious comparing to the one in my home country. Cheers and Good Job!
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  1614. ... and I love listening to your content! Thank you John!
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  1615. Nice
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  1616. Any videos for philippines, laos and cambodia?
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  1617. Missing Taiwan. All your photos reminded me of that. Can't wait for the pandemic to be over and we can come back!
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  1618. Really great video. I forgot to watch it during Patreon Early Access. But it's a really nice deep dive!!
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  1619. Moral : Everything is machine learning....Human learning has become absolute...
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  1620. I almost never look at the screen while the videos are playing. I had no idea I was missing jokes. Podcast sounds perfect for me.
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  1621. The MEITU image at 9:24 -9:30 is funny!
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  1622. I have been watching your videos. I am Portuguese living in Taiwan and taking a degree in English with a minor in International Affairs at the same time. In International Affairs I have an elected course about the "Development of Political Economy of Taiwan" that covers all that you have been documenting, but deeper. Nevertheless, your videos are very helpful and interesting. Thank you for posting and keep up the excellent job.
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  1623. Thanks for the videos. You always tell a different perspective from history that it's not tought at American schools.
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  1624. From Semiconductor to 7-11, you cover the biggest businesses in Asia.
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  1625. I used to visit the Hi Life outside the campus I was on when I studied abroad in Taiwan years ago. I would go for either tea eggs or meat buns and some Hey Song Sasparilla
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  1626. i lived in Asia for 7 years.. i miss the cook food from family mart :(
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  1627. Wow you are amazing. love it was so happy to hear about it and was actually thinking what is happening because I heard about it from Britain. And about Boris Johnson. Keep up the great work 👍🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽
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  1628. this is just an excuse to make all those puns isn't it.
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  1629. larry niven and jerry pournelle suggested this back in the 80's. Except the destination was San Diego, California. Still a good idea
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  1630. Some municipalities in California considered the iceberg option towed from the Arctic.
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  1631. hi
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  1632. Enjoyed the bit of sarcasm! (being Irish)
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  1633. Nice video keep it up bro
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  1634. Yo this video is so helpful to me (as an elec eng student)! Thanks heaps
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  1635. I just hopped over to the silicon device industry, which I know nothing about. I didn't study all this in EE. Thank you for your videos. I hope your channel takes off.
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  1636. Your videos are amazing on all topics. I can watch all of them all day. Great introductions and layouts to complex things we dont hear enough about
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  1637. Thanks. Amusing that you are using software metaphors to explain physical designs. We've come full-circle.
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  1638. Continuing on from your video on Hua Mulan, this song (which most Asianometry viewers would not be familiar with) is about the island hopping settlement of Polynesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZrAmRxy_M (Interestingly enough it's by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical Hamilton about United States independence)
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  1639. Your videos are great and surely you deserve to get way way more than 100k subscribers.
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  1640. amazing content. aiming for 10k subscribers!
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  1641. Thank you very much for your video. Very few English videos on this topic.
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  1642. Good history lesson. I’ve subscribed.
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  1643. thanks
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  1644. 2:14 - voltron bro, Voltron!!
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  1645. Great video! Love from Taiwan.
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  1646. Love your videos thank you for your enlightenment
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  1647. Very cool, thanks!
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  1648. Thank you for making this excellent material available.
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  1649. This is incredible. Yesterday youtube recommended your previous video on this topic and wondered exactly what has changed since. Thanks for the amazing research and content.
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  1650. the whole time i was studying in cal tech, i had one classmate from Hong Kong, and he is really a second gen. i had tons of classmates from taiwan, korea, and china.
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  1651. Your southing voice brings me peace.
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  1652. I would love a video on laos’ development strategy
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  1653. Yo no additional feedback here beyond me saying I appreciate your channel bruv
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  1654. Love your work, keen for the video
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  1655. Always interesting. Thanks.
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  1656. Great video as usual!
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  1657. 🍍🍍🍍
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  1658. Added to lists of places i'd want to visit (or go inside) some day
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  1659. Going by scooter, by the embankment alley(I guess ?) ,and during morning rush hour, like the employees in he park do everyday, is very authentic.
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  1660. FAB-ulous
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  1661. Really nice video
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  1662. hello recently found the channel and I'm pretty happy with it m
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  1663. Amazing content as always! I can only see great things for your channel. Keep up the good work! I don't know how you have time to research these topics with so much depth. Is this your full time gig?
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  1664. good video thanks
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  1665. Great channel, another great video
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  1666. very impressive you can release this information right when it hits the mainstream. you are ahead of the curve my friend!!
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  1667. Cool video! Sad to see that the international sausage wall is a so light on French sausages (where is the Morteau? The Corsican Figatelli? The saucisse de Toulouse? Or that of Motbéliard?) and mostly has Italian and German ones, but it’s not really the point of the museum so whatever I guess.
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  1668. this was a fun video!
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  1669. Visiting this place was very interesting, it's really nice how these small attractions are dotted all over Taiwan.
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  1670. Yes, inflation will definitely help. If TWD is 1:20 to USD, the job market will be very different
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  1671. I know literally nothing about Asia. I love your stuff
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  1672. 5:34 great restaurant turning right there and on the left side. Plenty of beer brands. Great food.
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  1673. I wished I had been more familiar with the MRT when I was there. I took a taxi to and from the airport but the rest I used the MRT to see all the temples, gardens, museums, Taipei 101, etc. The only wish is that it would have been extended to the National Palace Museum as it is difficult with my limited Mandarin to ride the buses so I took a taxi to and from my hotel.
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  1674. how did you get all these info? do you know somebody on the inside? anyways, truly awesome man
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  1675. Excellent analysis.
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  1676. Perfect and very informative! Thanks a ton !
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  1677. great video, maybe a video survey of all the semiconductor companies all over asia?
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  1678. Thank you Asianometry guys dad! :)
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  1679. Great video!
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  1680. Wonderful video as always
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  1681. Keep up the great work mate, all the best in the new year, cheers!
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  1682. Well done and keep up the good work. Best wishes for 2023. Andrew, Townsville, Australia.
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  1683. Thank you for the video. Great work on tis 👍 👍👍
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  1684. The problem that you mentioned vis a vis commercializations of innovative ideas is one that has plagued British inventiveness for decades, if not centuries. They just don't seem able to find economical ways to bridge the gap between good idea and commercial enterprise successfully in a lot of instances, which is unfortunate. Thanks for a really interesting and insightful video. I shall look at the salt cellar in a new way going forward... 👍😀
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  1685. You must be a scooter guy or a bicycle only? Possibly a EV bike.
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  1686. Why hadn't I hit subscribe yet, I've watched enough of your videos... Well, I'm subscribed now, so that's fixed!
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  1687. excellent show as always! thx Asianometry
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  1688. @Asianometry this is my favorite so far, really demonstrates your love of craft. Thanks as always :)
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  1689. Great series on fabs.
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  1690. I don't want you to do something just because I tell you to. I'd be interested in Taiwan's efforts on the ground to change mainland China politically, and visa versa. Or mainland China's efforts in biomedical gene editing, which looks a little bit concerning from the outside. I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever you do. I'm also interested in Iran, since it had a similar revolution to the one in China (obviously Islamic as opposed to communist), but the changes were just as drastic. Anyway thanks again
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  1691.  @Asianometry  Yeah I really enjoyed the video on China Tobacco, didn't realise what a huge company it was, but obviously the problems are going to accumulate.
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  1692. Wait you have a jazz playlist? I can’t wait to check it out
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  1693. Nice video man
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  1694. The rating is just a question of time I think. Judging by the comment watchers seems to enjoy the channel (I do!). I also have the gut feeling that more and more people are commenting. Of course the subjects are usually not mainstream but the quality and the originality of the content gives it a lot of appeal.
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  1695. Woah! Every frame a painting is OG video essay!!!! Now I gotta go check that out.
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  1696.  @Asianometry  It was the leuven dialect way of saying leuven aswel, I'll just use this as evidence form my conspiracy theorie that asianometry secretly speaks dutch.
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  1697. I sign on to youtube for your videos! Thank you for what you do!
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  1698. a video on carl zeiss would be very nice
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  1699. Another excellent video from Asianometry!
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  1700. Great video as usual. keep it up man
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  1701. This was a very interesting video
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  1702. We used rubylith in arts class.
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  1703. These videos are excellent
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  1704. Such an interesting channel
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  1705. Wang Labs. East Coast and employed 30k+ employees at one time. Started my career with them installing and servicing equipment at places such as Lockheed, Onizuka Air Force Station/Intelligence Satellite and HP.
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  1706. How does the deer in your profile pic feel about being famous? Do an interview with him?
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  1707. It's nice to hear from you about things I'm related with.
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  1708.  @Asianometry  If the topic doesn't pique your interest then don't worry about it. Life is too short to spend your free time on things you aren't interested in. Also unlike perhaps semiconductor fabrication, I have enough background to deeply research and understand the technology aspects of the Great Firewall / "Golden Shield Project" myself (though less so about the Chinese government political / historical aspects, which are also important). (Side note: sorry about recent spam in this comment section -- hopefully it might helps with the YouTube algorithm though!)
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  1709. Thanks, good and insightful video :)
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  1710. TSMC should open a fab in Denmark. We don't have earth quakes. As in ever. We also don't have tsunamis. And when we have storms that we complain about the rest of the world laughs and calls it "slightly more than windy". The entire northern part of the main isle (Jutland) has an underground of wet chalk. It's basically like a stiff white clay. This means that you never have to drill more than 8-10 meters for drinking quality water, so every production plant has localized water supply. Also we have multipoint electricity generation. Some from windmills (they're freaking everywhere!), some from garbage incineration and some Sweden's hydro dams and nuclear plants... And we have plenty of higher education institutions. The one in the north specifically specializing in math, physics and engineering.
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  1711. Thank you for your videos in 2023! May I suggest a few topics (that I am interested to know more)? - Hot spring in Japan or Taiwan or China - How test chip silicon are fabbed? Do they create all those litho masks and etc just for testing? - Vertical farming - Drip irrigation invented in Israel - The failure of Intel Optane
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  1712. I too thoroughly enjoy your videos. I look forward to them I've watched them for two three years now I don't believe that I've missed a single video. I find them quite educational and great for broadening my horizons. I seldom hit the like button. I need to start doing that. As it brightens my day when i see a new video. I like to learn new things and your videos are definitely at the top of my list. I think that it's just something about 2023 perhaps it's the world events or maybe just a combination of things but myself and a number of acquaintances. Have had some rough patches this year.
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  1713. Keep going where your curiosity takes you. Every video you do is top notch and it’s always interesting to us the viewers. Thank you for your hard work!
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  1714. I'm your subscriber from Ukraine, I watched those ussr videos several thousand times hence the views, wish you strong health my friend
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  1715. Thanks for your videos and the extensive research behind them, I appreciate it! Keep going with what interests you!
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  1716. Please make a video about the dam of three Gorges
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  1717. Thank you. Wish there was no covid I would happily fly over with the misses and shout you and yours a nice dinner.
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  1718. As always great video!
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  1719. 謝了哥 優質頻道
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  1720. excellent piece, I work with SAW and BAW filters frequently for my work with software defined radios but i never knew the history, fascinating.
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  1721. Sorry to correct you, but Neumann is not pronounced "Newman", it's pronounced "Noy-mann". It's the name of a mathematician, who among other things contributed greatly to the development of computation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Other than that, great video as always. Thank you.
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  1722. Hi , I am a big fan of your videos and was wondering whether would you be doing a video on the Chinese Diaspora in Singapore Malaysia and Indonesia .
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  1723. Great stuff :)
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  1724. Is the mom joke in the newsletter? 😂
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  1725. This makes me want some coffee rn...
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  1726. The classic is the best of TTL’s beer line up, Change My Mind
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  1727. Wassup mr.asianometry Congrats on 517k sups when will you do a q&a
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  1728. Always a wonder to see cool looking building.
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  1729. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Kaohsiung.
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  1730. Interesting vid. I'll go there
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  1731. I enjoy these types of video. Thank you for sharing.
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  1732.  @Asianometry  True, given how stubborn the Chinese are against anything the Government says, I don't think anti-smoking campaigns would be anywhere effective, even if done properly.
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  1733. I went to see the ASML price and it seems you jinxed it with your video 😂. Very nice video btw.
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  1734. That was a really nice video!
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  1735. SO RELAXING !
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  1736. Incredible video as always, cheers
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  1737. Interesting topic mate ....
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  1738. Would be great if you use traditional characters! Otherwise, appreciate your work!
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  1739. thanks for the informative video :)
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  1740. I hate all these types of movies. The only war movies I like are historical types. Rambo, comic book wars and all these ilk sicken me.
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  1741. great analysis. thanks
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  1742. good video!
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  1743.  @Asianometry  off course I watched it, great one indeed!... looking forward for videos about other suppliers if you can, probably this time about EDA tools, like Synopsys and Cadence... Cheers
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  1744.  @Asianometry  The deer are taking over YouTube now? What agendas does the Deer kingdom have by making YouTube videos?😮
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  1745. Nice video. You kind of take the machine that you are a part of for granted. One thing that stood out to me - ballroom and mini environment. For fab layout there are generally two (been a while since undergrad) - ball room and bay and chase. Then each tool , generally speaking, has their own mini-enviroment that has its own filters to further clean the air. Because of loadports that dock to the factory interface/EFEM (might be more terms for that depending on what toolset you work with), and FOUPs (wafer carrier) that have gaskets, you don't need a fab with as tight of a tolerance in air purity. The fab has laminar airflow, so air isn't pumped from outside as much as it's filtered. Filters on the ceiling, air flows down, through floor grates, and is filtered again.
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  1746.  @Asianometry  I believe in you :)
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  1747. ​ @Asianometry  I actually think your Formosan salmon will do pretty well, especially with the recent hockey stick growth of your channel you'll gain about 1,000 views on it no problem. It's entertaining content that melds scientific and historical information while being high-information density, just like your Ractopamine pork additive video. It's your coffee cup competition video that won't be a hit
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  1748. Another home run --- every single one of your videos are gold.
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  1749. I really want a video about the process to manufacture the mask they shine the light through
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  1750. Good lectures, and i really get the university lectures vibe from this channel, will break up the monotony with some humor or energy. It's not meant to be a skit or deserving of a sitcom laughter on a box, but it serves to retain attention on the subject. Even the most interesting subjects can be hard to focus on if it's 100% dry.
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  1751. This makes me regret not pursuing physics in college despite my great interest... I might just put enough money aside and just have a go at going to college again !
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  1752. I’ve never clicked on something so fast! Excited to watch this :)
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  1753. i wonder who could have inspired this title choice... :P
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  1754. Very awesome technology analysis. Great video. Love ❤️
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  1755. atm, 640 views and 641 likes 👍🏼 Can't beat that!
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  1756. Brilliant episode, thanks!
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  1757. Interesting
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  1758. @centurion1945  Why just Braindead? The Frighteners is, I think, good too with Michael J. Fox.
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  1759.  @Asianometry  Ah thanks for clarifying.
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  1760. It’s always cool watching these types of channels rise from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of viewers.
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  1761. Thank you for attending and making this video, I love learning about Asia and your interests. Also a huge fan of shrimp.
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  1762. this is one of my favorite videos!
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  1763. It doesn't matter where the man is from... it's better to know where he is heading...to a bright future with Startup Festival in Taipei.
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  1764. I hope you guys get to do this in the US someday.
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  1765. Event planning isn't easy. Even for such a small event there are so many moving parts and coordination to take place. Maybe you could do something right before or after next year's COMPUTEX? That would be pretty awesome I think in terms of scheduling.
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  1766. It was nice seeing you in person, the symposium provide some good material as well as confirm some other insight from different sources. By the way, did you attend the semicon in Nangang?
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  1767. Hope to have another event soon, it was fun!
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  1768. Great story. Thanks...
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  1769. Thanks!
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  1770. Nice
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  1771. Awesome content and interesting.
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  1772. You have a big fan in me, Asianometry! Your videos are sooo interesting and chock full of great history and story telling by you. Your very very good at what you do and everything you make is endlessly interesting to me. I do have to confess though, I actually have used your videos on my phone to fall asleep at night on occasion 🤣. But take that as a complement 😁
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  1773. Yet another excellent report ! thanks !
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  1774. Because they get less light overall, meaning they either have to take longer samples or amplify the same samples a lot more. The first can lead to motion blur if you move the camera/sensor during sampling and the second will lead to much higher image noise, which needs to be denoised. Most phones use a combination of the 2, but at some point you need to have a minimum sample time, or the noise will be so bad that you can't get rid of it with denoising
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  1775. damn that henry wu quote at the end. Mic drop!
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  1776. You're still the best!!!
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  1777. It's not Coypu in Europe. It's Nutria or Bisamratte in Germany, we're in Europe. Not Coypu. They're awesome, though, closely related to beavers.
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  1778. I encourage you to make more videos from the lesser known (asian) side of history (which you are now doing).
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  1779. Thank you for this video
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  1780. Chop seals may appear medieval but western companies have press seals that emboss documents. The difference is that in the west, the seal is only one indicator of authenticity not the final authority.
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  1781. Nice 👍🏻 digression with the seal (the animal I mean). Hilarious…..
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  1782. Nice subtle visual reference to ARMs Acorn routes
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  1783. your video should be on reddit hardware now https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/n52oxq/arm_fired_arm_chinas_ceo_but_he_wont_go_a/
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  1784. So many puns in this video, it freeze the video.😂
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  1785. asianometry Thanks for your reply and sorry for my English ability 😂, I will wait for your new video
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  1786. 4:30 ah yes, Tim Apple
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  1787. Amazing video. I work in this field exactly and it's a very good recollection of what we have to do. Good job!
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  1788. Thanks for explaining for a layman like me in electronic industry 🎉👌
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  1789. I heard the trash truck collect trash from your neighborhood. Man...that sound is so distinct.
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  1790. Fond memories working for one of the big chip design guys... Yup, it's just like this. 👍🏻
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  1791. Thanks for the shoutout! We enjoy your stuff too :)
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  1792. Thank you btw John. This channel is great. Edit:'Jon' sorry, I meant to write 'Jon', Also; subscribe to this channel, and the newsletter. It's good.
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  1793. oh well nice content btw (thanks)
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  1794. Good video and also can you do the Vietnamese Cambodian war?
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  1795. Great videos btw, they help me answer so many questions I have while living here in Taiwan.
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  1796. Nice use of video presentation.
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  1797. Thanks for the great sharing
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  1798. hi Jon - silly Q - where is your email address? i sent one to your substack - but not sure that goes through?
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  1799. Awesome video, thanks 🙏👍🙌😊
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  1800. Very interesting video :)
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  1801. Incredible technology.
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  1802. seeing hardware in these videos that I personally designed never gets old! Reticle Handler gang in Stage's shadow as per usual lol
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  1803. Don't take comments personally ;)
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  1804. Just wanted to say amazing channel you have here!I am someone that is interested in economics, science and tech, especially in Asia. If you ever want to have a conversation in various topics or if you ever come to Singapore and Malaysia feel free to message me. I love meeting and discussing things with people. Good luck and have a good one!
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  1805. Thank you. Much Love from the Philippines.
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  1806. Ha ha good to see you your channel grow back when I subscribed it was about 5000 subs. Hard work pays off. I always felt your work were good but under appreciated and glad to see much more appreciation now.
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  1807. Just another workday for me , F18 is huge , you’re right about the bus thought, they do ferry people in , but the bigger bus is for TSMC , the smaller is for us working in applied or other company, good video as usual !!!
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  1808. Almost 300k subs, I remember it was like 30k not too long ago. Congrats
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  1809. Too bad that TSMC fabs here doesn’t give you indoor tours even if for older fabs.
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  1810. Thanks for the informative video! You motor scootered to it?
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  1811. i really enjoy your essays. Thank you, I really hope it is financially worthwhile for you, I have a better understanding (less than zero, my starting point) of the chip business.
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  1812. Great video like always, thk you
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  1813. This channel is fucking amazing.👍
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  1814. I love the humor in this video!
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  1815. Fascinating, as usual.
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  1816. Superb
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  1817. nice
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  1818. Thanx, I appreciate your information and you! Keep up the good work....
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  1819.  @Asianometry  You actually said "After this acknowledgement". The subtitles didn't pick up on what you were saying, properly.
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  1820. Im taking VLSI as an elective subject. Might as well watch this.
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  1821. I pulled the Mead and Conway Intro to VLSI Systems on my bookshelf while watching. As a student in 1984, I didn't understand how important that text was. It's hard to imagine now, but we'd draw designs out out on paper and colored pencils.
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  1822. i would be interested to learn more about photonics chips and devices
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  1823. 3:56 Pun intended...
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  1824. You put time and effort to this, great work.
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  1825. ❤️
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  1826. I was under the impression that this was your full-time job. That's a lot of work! That's some crazy work ethics.
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  1827. Can we have a video talk about DRAM and NAND Flash industry?
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  1828. Sacrificing short-time gratification for long-time investment is ability found only solely in human species, yet its so hard to execute. I hope you reflect well enough on your decision, and thanks for 2022
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  1829. Do you have a patreon?
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  1830.  @Asianometry  Hey bud, hope you're well. I have enjoyed several of your well made videos and genuinely appreciated the effort you've put into them. While my comment may have seemed rude, and I won't contest that opinion, I will add that it was effective in getting your attention. Albeit, negative upon initial review. See, my frustration stemmed from the amount of time it took you to explain "the big semiconductor problem", hence the "get to the effing point dude" comment from me. You spent a considerable amount of time giving the history of electrical components and semiconductors in automobiles, and that's great, you did a wonderful job; the video was engaging and entertaining, but it dragged on. Perhaps a more appropriate title would be "The History of Semiconductors in Automobiles". That being said, don't take it personally, accept constructive criticism, continue making great videos (as you already do) and stay positive. And I, your new fan, will continue to appreciate them and learn to leave kinder comments. We all learn and grow together. Happy New Year my friend!
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  1831. It seems that you're uploading twice a week now.
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  1832. Hey man, nice vid. Could you do one on Chimei group? I am curious about how they became so known in the world of plastics. Somehow, it feels that if you combine Chimei and TSMC you get Samsung. Also they are from Tainan and are very involved in the city development; their museum is amazing. Regards from Taoyuan!
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  1833. Outstanding content.
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  1834. I never been to Belgium, I wish I could come to see you. Please consider making a full course in the history of any technology you find interesting, this is not explained properly in academia and the students have no perspective about the process dynamics.
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  1835. Perfect video ! Thanks a lot!
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  1836. Great video, top level knowladge
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  1837. That last question is very stupid and unnecessary. but props to you answering them in polite and serious manner
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  1838. wow, i dont know that every frame a painting creator in netflix. Thanks for the info..
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  1839. Then subs be climbing bro! Keep pumping the gas into content creation and interesting takes
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  1840. Come apply here man we can use you at ASML ;)
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  1841. You have really good content, two thumbs up
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  1842. super cool and posted to reddit
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  1843. Outstanding!
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  1844. Who are you man? You cover such a broad range of cool stuff - thanks 👍🏾
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  1845. go bears
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  1846. Nice job brother
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  1847.  @Asianometry  Oh, if that's the issue I would suggest almost approaching it like a university lecture: whenever talking about complex concepts eg, the TCP/IP stack, VPNs etc you can just show the textbook diagram (but presumably without the textual dot points, because that's not your style). I wouldn't worry too much if the diagram is too complex for the audience. If showing the diagrams is not covered by fair use copyright, places like Wikimedia Commons should have freely licensed diagrams.
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  1848. Jokes aside, great content. Hope you start raking in a lot of views!
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  1849. I became a subscriber in 2032. Amazing content! I can only imagine how many hours of research you put into each video :) Cheers from Sweden,
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  1850. Your videos remind me of reading friend essays from university and then talking to them about it afterwards. Learning something new or a deeper level is sooo usefull.
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  1851. You are one of the best YouTube story guy. Great stories, great naration pace and well done inserting the human aspect into your videos. Try to chill out sometimes, don t burn yourself out.
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  1852. Due to my work as preproduction enigneer for VDL in the Netherlands I have a strong focus on ASML and related business (Zeiss, Jemoptik and Aemtec). You cover that area very accurate and always in a nice to hear format. But outside that area I love to watch all other video's too. The race to Venus and Mars was very interesting. Take good care of yourself and have a healthy 2024. Thanks for all your effort.
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  1853. Just want to say National Semiconductor might be my all time favourite video. Also that I really appreciate you and your interesting insights! If you are ever come to Calgary or Banff Canada I’d be happy to buy you dinner. I can’t promise I’ll have much smart to say, but I’m happy to show you around.
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  1854. <3
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  1855. Your Wang Labs video was by far the best youve ever done.
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  1856. Shaw Brothers had a big sentimental value to me... In high school I struggled socially and found my escape in Hong Kong action movies, in which Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are absolute legends. It was great to learn about the story behind these giants in the film industry I loved so much as a teenager.
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  1857. I really think you should branch out into more automotive technology videos. Most notably, I believe the development of Honda's Vtec technology and the development of the Lexus LS 400 would make great wholesome topics relevant to your channel. The video you made about Toyota managing a GM factory and the related issues stemming from cultural differences between Japan and America was spot on.
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  1858. 4.8 percent of girls? That's 4.8% more that I expected, lol Also, your videos are great! Especially those ones that have an inspirational story
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  1859. Hi, I'm probably the only man from Oradea city watching your videos 😅
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  1860. I really liked your pearl video about Japan and the gulf pearl economy before they got oil. I am a proud patreon subscriber
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  1861. Just to thank you for the great, well thought and researched videos. But also your incredible sense of humour. I only recently discovered your channel, but it's already one of my favourites. Thank you and all the best. Ps. Will try to become a member in 2024 :)
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  1862. Wang Labs and the hearing aid videos were actually my favorite! Thanks for this awesome youtube channel see you next year!
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  1863. Thanks! whenever you're in Israel - falafel and beer on me, and tech of course :) thanks for making this year awesome!
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  1864. The YKK video made me laugh. A long time ago in Jr High/Middle school I would always say 'YKK' to other students. This would confuse them and I would tell them it's written on your zipper.
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  1865. your videos are always the highlight of my week. my wife enjoys them as well (and requests more videos about thailand, her mother's country of birth). thank you
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  1866. really love your work.
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  1867. Love your videos. Thanx for making them 🙏❤️
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  1868. As a business school grad and son of the Silicon Valley (and National Semiconductor), I find that you pull together lots of wonderful history that I missed. If your videos are not used in today's business schools, as well as De Anza College local history classes, that's a huge missed opportunity. I salute you.
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  1869. I love everyone of your videos, I always come away from each one having learned something new and interesting, so keep doing what you're doing!!!!
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  1870. That was a nice personal look back at the year. I guess you invest so much of yourself in seeing through each of these 'projects' - a shared review must help manage some of the inevitable stress. The comments every video remark on your quality. Second to none for documentary on U Tube although some of the crafts specialists do wonderful things in their own fields. I am from Europe and I bet like many from here, we want more stories from Asia. Generally Asian content is very forward looking. That is appreciated ❤
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  1871. 🥰
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  1872. You made it through my bullshit filter. If it wasn't obvious, youtube seems to have changed a bit lately and with that there have been a lot of shifty youtube channels popping up on my feed. Keep up the good work! 👍
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  1873.  @Asianometry  I felt the same way. I ate at the one in Odaiba. Tokyo, this November. I did like Butayama ramen a lot.
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  1874. Did you eat at Gyukatsu motomura?
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  1875. Danish guy here. Officer on a cable laying vessel operating out of Taichung. We connect some of all the new wind farms. If you ever want to do a video about Taiwan’s shift to renewables and a cable laying vessel is of interest, let me know - or just want a tour of the vessel. Maersk Connector. I also have some cool drone footage :-)
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  1876. 5:30 - “train to Busan” The UN Memorial Cemetery brought me to tears.
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  1877. I loved the National Semi video: "Any idiot can count to 1." I showed it to my professor and he got a kick out of it. I found your channel by chance through a historical algorithm and I came to love your semiconductor and fab videos. Thank you very much. I am a lowly undergrad, but your videos mean a lot to us that are ignorant. <3
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  1878. Hey, I missed the Shaw theaters one, thanks! I spent a month in Kaosiung in 1980 when a ship I worked on drydocked there. It was a busy little town back then, and those were the days when Taiwan was the textbook pirate of the world. I still have the medical textbooks I bought vack then for a quarter of what they cost stateside. In those days blue collar workers chewed betel, and I found it quite enjoyable, especially the fresh nut, betel leaves and spices concoctions on ice that vendors would trundle around town. People there seemed friendly, and the street vendors at night were fun to check out, even if you weren't buying.
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  1879. Greatings from The Netherlands. Found you when I wanted to understand what my friend at ASML was working on (EUV) and I'm glad I did. Don't burn yourself out ❤. If you have the time and energy, I would love you to upload more often to Spotify 🙏
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  1880. One of the most wholesome and original channels on YT.
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  1881. REAL TECH. I enjoy and appreciate your videos. A Unix/Linux history video will also be amazing.
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  1882. i look forward to every video of yours!
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  1883. Asianometry’s a true modern historian storyteller, and a gentleman. Such a kind soul, あけましておめでとう❕Here’s to a spectacular 2024. :)
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  1884. Please do visit India. It will be a great to have you in Mumbai. PLEASE host the AI-SEMICON symposium in Mumbai.
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  1885. Hi Asianometry, you've become my favorite channel in 2023. Keep up the good work.
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  1886. Thank you for all the hard work. I may not understand half of the video you created. But I enjoy them all.
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  1887. I cherish your videos as I would a letter from a dear friend. Please keep telling us about all the thing you find interesting. Thank you for another great year of content!
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  1888. Thank you for making videos! KEEP IT UP but at the same time take it easy
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  1889. He's already done one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXG447KQLwg
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  1890. 太神啦~一如既往地優秀內容:finger-red-number-one:
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  1891. I've been in that Infineon fab in Ft. Collins... big room full of P5000's. Old 8" tools are beloved by the MEMS community.
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  1892.  @Asianometry  Ha ha ha. I think they're very different. Ok. But your video is brilliant. Thanks for your best effort.
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  1893.  @Asianometry  one of them is called Huizhou (惠州) Hakka and the other is Meizhou (梅州) Hakka. Being a descendant of Hakka myself, it took me about 24 years to realize this. So, don't worry about it. Lol. Btw, if you wonder they sound different, they sure do. I speak a little of Huizhou Hakka but can understand it without any problem. When a friend of mine spoke to me in Meizhou Hakka, I was pretty much not able to understand it.
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  1894. Thanks for yet another great vid bro. We on r/ChunghwaMinkuo love your stuff.
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  1895.  @fusion9619  If you can get into a one of the top places like National Taiwan University in Taipei, National Central University in Taoyuan or Tsinghua University in Hsinchu those should be pretty decent. But I am not educated in Taiwan so don't take my word for it. Regardless, only international research universities like those would be something I would trust.
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  1896. Awesome Mate - Love the topics. Please do a video about KaVaLan Whisky. (Which is fantastic!!!!) 我是澳洲老外， 自己學中文， 愛臺灣 請你做影片關於噶瑪蘭威士忌 謝謝
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  1897. Rock on tsmc. Thanks for this video
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  1898. Love this channel do Nio next
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  1899. stellar video as always, this type of design could revolutionize ocean travel.
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  1900. Bro this isn't a minecraft video
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  1901. Thanks!
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  1902. NICE VID BRuuh!! :)
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  1903. This is basically science fiction. I'm glad people made these
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  1904. OMG. This is far beyond what I had imagined.
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  1905. It's no wonder those machines cost so much.
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  1906. wow, great video. so interesting
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  1907. This Video Explained it completely !! Thanks for making it !!!
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  1908. Love your videos! You always seem to find the right topics
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  1909. Very awesome and engaging documentary! 👌🏼 Channel subscribed!
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  1910. That is bonkers. Utterly mind-blowing machine. I love this channel.
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  1911. You do such a good job always a pleasure watching
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  1912. That was an awesome overview of the ASML system, thank you. On to 200k.
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  1913. Well done video! Really good
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  1914. Good work sir! Thank you for making this video
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  1915. Very informative!! Thank you
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  1916.  @Asianometry  Hahaha looking forward to it!
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  1917. I've come across multiple people that believe in a conspiracy theory that China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" policy and the One Child Policy were not designed by the Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and the rest of the Chinese Communist Party. The theory argues they were tricked by economists working at Western charitable foundations (the Rockerfeller Foundation and Rockerfeller's "Population Council") who convinced them to implement the family planning and population control policies. The reasons they argue were not even based on managing the number of dependent children, but to curb the populations of Asia for racial supremacist reasons. As far as I can tell, it's all conspiracy theorist nonsense, but I've come across a 30 minute documentary on YouTube from 2013 titled "Population Control: The Eugenics Connection" that at least starts out arguing a similar point (I haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet). The video quality is grainy but it's otherwise relatively well-produced (going as far as including the same background piano track I've heard in actual PBS documentaries grainy 1990s VHS tapes). My concern is that when the Chinese Communist Party eventually comes to the realization that they have made a massive mistake with their population management policies allowing the total fertility rate to fall so far below 2.1 children that they will end up reviving the conspiracy theory in their propaganda to whip up nationalism (in the same way China's propaganda arms have convinced people in China that COVID-19 did not emerge in China).
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  1918. 0:40 OMG I’m in your video hahaha
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  1919.  @Asianometry  I'm sorry to hear. And I hope you take symptoms of stress seriously. I didn't, and now I'm on disability :-/ Take care! We'd rather you take a break for a while than disappear completely because of burn-out....
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  1920. Just look at the behind the scenes for mr beasts squid game and youll see why this makes so much sense. Almost all the CG was done in Unreal Engine, Unity's competitor, and superimposed live so it will always match what the camera was seeing.
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  1921. Hey there, I like your videos👍 By any chance are you college? History student?
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  1922. very interesting, Jon. Thank you - Happy New Year!
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  1923. Asianometry is just awesome
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  1924. Man, I would have loved to have been there and listened to these presentations. Sounds like everything turned out great in the end!
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  1925. Hey Jon - thanks for the great event. We travelled from Australia to attend SEMICON and this event was a great way to kick things off 😊
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  1926. That is so cool!!!!! I wish I was in Taiwan to attend!!!! 😊😊😊😊
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