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  1. 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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  2. I love the obsession with TSMC though :D
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. those chineese theories about soviet economy and collaps at 1:30 .. that sounds extremly interesting
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  11. 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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  12. Superb. Never knew this aspect of Russian recent past. Thank you
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. These videos are so consistently well made, it's always a pleasure. Keep it up!
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. Humans being The Real Minimum Viable Product at an AI conference, I see what you did there 😎
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  22. Interesting that two of TSMC's biggest customers: Jensen Huang and Lisa Su are both from Tainan :D
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  23. 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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  24. These videos are fascinating.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. I really like the company profile videos, especially for companies that had big impacts and which no longer exist. I am here for the semiconductor content, but I think the other topics are very interesting too.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. A radical new theory explained and analyzed - with full precision and unrelenting objectivity - in under eleven minutes: grand chapeau.
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  32. 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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  33. It takes lots of livers. A lot of livers.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. Great story
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  38. 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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  39. He did manage to mention semiconductor for a few seconds though... sneaky....
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  40. 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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  41. Not to be confused with Omicron (coronavirus mutation). Or Macron (the president of France).
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  42. 2x2 = Quadscan or Quac 🦆 for short
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. Amazing semiconductor industry video as always!
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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