Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "How America Won Back Semiconductors from Japan" video.

@AlexanderSylchuk Well actually it's more a sunflower oil shortage due to the war in Ukraine.
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@AlexanderSylchuk Yes AFAIK it's not a production issue, it's the fact exports are stopped. And it pushes prices to rise due to higher demand in the global market. Same issue with many seeds. And it's even worse with mustard which, combined with bad crops in Canada (the second supplier after Ukraine), resulted in empty shelves in stores. All of that because our countries relies too much on few large global suppliers in many industries instead of promoting smaller but more local solutions.
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not in the processor business!? NEC made 8086 and Z80 CPUs whereas Hitachi made enhanced 6809 CPUs then its own in-house architecture.
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@ohhyokkwon2586 You talked about the 80s and NEC was huge during that decade, not only in Japan but in the whole Asian area. Sure facing the Wintel monstrosity they declined during the 90's but just like many others, including US and EU companies. Altough the processor business is not only the personal computer market. Many players ditched it in favor of more specialized applications that sometimes Intel still didn't touched nowadays. In fact the server market itself was way more diversified during the 90's and 00's than the last decade.
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