Comments by "John Doh" (@johndoh5182) on "imec: The Semiconductor Watering Hole" video.

  1. In the US, govt. funding used to be combined with business funding and college based R&D for different technology. The US used to be a leader in HARDWARE technology. Now? Look pretty much anywhere else. And because the country can't even agree because of stupid politics, which is why govt. funding dried up, on a basic curriculum to ensure people are getting a good enough education such as Common Core to enter highly technical education, engineers are coming from mostly other countries. Even the US's successful hardware companies have to rely on engineers from around the world. To some degree they always have but now engineers are overwhelmingly from other countries. Intel does a lot of development in Israel for instance. I guess they found that so many of their engineers were coming from Israel it made more sense to build a fab along with R&D there.
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  2. Different colleges across the US used to get a bit of govt. funding to go into R&D, and they worked with industry to develop technology. So, Penn State is one of many places this happens or used to happen, not so much the renting out of spaces, but the use of the college for R&D.
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  3. Having spoken English since I was born, and having been around the world watching people try to talk in very technical ways and seeing just how many words they're saying that are English words, I think I'm glad I learned English. Really dude you didn't have to be a prick with that comment. We don't need people bashing each others' languages here.
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