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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. "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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  6. It's really unbelievable how systemically relevant TSMC is.
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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. 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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  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. This video reminds me of one incident in Germany with Salim family. In the beginning of 2004 I was working at a hospital in MĂźnster 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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  16. It's so wild that basically all the information exchanged by humanity gets squeezed down to a few choke points
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  17. 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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  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. 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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  21. 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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  22. "Right arm was overworked and they needed to pump with their left" Story of my life
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  23. As someone working at ASML, I can say this video is surprisingly accurate.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. Personally, I really enjoy the lithography videos. There isn't any other content like this on YouTube.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  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. 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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  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. Secret to success: Find a good engineer, fund a good engineer.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. I don't understand how you can possibly produce such information packed videos so frequently.
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  37. 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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  38. Power of friendship 🤣
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  39. 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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  40. As a Brazilian I wasn't expecting that. Great video as well!
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  41. That was a really interesting video. Thank you. YouTube algorithm is working 👍
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  42. 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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  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. 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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  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. How TSMC changed our world actually.
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  47. 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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  48. The space programs of the 60s through 80s made being a kid back the GREAT.
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  49. 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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  50. 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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