Comments by "alex Lo" (@alexlo7708) on "How Philips Helped Get TSMC Off the Ground" video.

  1. Key scientists and engineers were from KMT era. Many reknown Chinese American scientists even came from the mainland China.
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  2. Japanese is doers not inventors. They won the market by paying more effort and hard hours work. Even in their peak industrials ,they all licensed US chips in manufacturing.
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  3. ASML became leader after US decided to curve down the Japanese electronic industries. The EUV light source is US governments fund invention and monopolized to ASML. Same as past AMOLED screen invented by US and gave its tech exclusive monopolized to South Korea until the technology was cracked down by China lately.
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  4. ​ obimk1  EUV light source was the project of US department of energy. They gave fund to company they'd chosen which its Cymer Inc. And they created it. At the final stage , they had to find some lithograhy manufacturers collborating in make use of it. At the time, Japan also submitted it's apply. But US govt decided to allow only single one at the aim to monoplolized this market and they choose Netherland. Thats was the begin of decline in Japan lithography business. Japan electronic association and Japan govt were not satsfying the situation. They gathering started R&D in making EUV light source. There were so many R&D papers in Japan universities at that time topic on How to make EUV power light from Cyclotron system. And they were stuck in there since then.
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  5. Moris Chang once said human potentials is the key!!!
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