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  1. Great video! Love your content. Wanted to let you know that Cymer is pronounced “Symer”, and is derived from “excimer laser.” Looking forward to additional great content!
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  2. Great presentation! Some very minor observations: the term "VLSI" was already in common use before the Mead&Conway project. Mosis was an interface service for foundaries, but was not a foundary itself (you gave other examples of this, to which you can add Europractice). The key idea of Mead&Conway was to allow systems designers to create their own blocks instead of having to pass black boxes to specialized circuit designers. Some of the design would use standard cells, but for other parts you would connect transistors directly - for example doing a barrel shifter as a regular transistor lattice instead of a bunch of standard cell multiplexers.
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  3. alternative title: China: "I don't like sand"
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  4. Great insightful look at a random piece of Taiwanese internet culture that I had never heard of. I found it funny at 4:20 when you said "it uses a more modern network protocol called Telnet". LOL telnet is by no means a modern network protocol haha. The quality of the PTT's authentication and encryption will be extremely lacking compared to running a modern web service over HTTPS
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  5. Your videos are so informative, well-presented, sometimes even inspiring. While in the west we're used to either big personality CEOs or boring decline, the theme in several of your videos is how Asian nations achieved success through decades of sensible, focused, well-managed progress.
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  6. Thankyou once again for an interesting video. Chinese immigration is a sensitive subject in Australia. There's a tension between what constitutes a legitimate security/infrastructure/housing concern and racism.
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  7. Dude, you're smart as f*ck. How do you learn so much about such a wide array of topics and sound so smart talking about them? Lol
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  8. Great video man! A lot of good information that I haven’t heard yet! (Assuming it is all true, there are A LOT of bad channels on YouTube when it comes to the 3GD, it’s all the same stuff repeated) but you sound VERY informed, so I think I am safe to assume you are being completely honest. (It’s just new information to me, and I am to lazy to fact check it 😂 well at least I’m honest🤦‍♂️😂) so great job on the research and how you put it all together, and you did a great job with the narration! I am guessing this had to be a decent amount of work for you, but I think it was worth it! I know most people will just say good video, so sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to let you know why I thought it was good👍 happy to give a like for this video and subscribe to your channel!
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  9. "rivers are big and full of freshwater, which is convenient as we can only drink fresh water" :goodvibes:😂
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  10. I have just returned from 3 days camping on sand beach and have sand everywhere. I hate sand now. Otherwise, cool topic for video!
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  11. Checkout this channel's "TSMC - Essays" for more great videos.
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  12. This has to be the most underrated channel in all the 'effing YouTube 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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  13. Another great company profile from one of YouTube's best channels. ASUS produces some really great products. For advanced home users, ASUS Wi-Fi routers in particular are some of the best around, especially because the community supported "Merlin" firmware is just so good, and helps unlock some very useful features for advanced users. It's hard to find routers that has such great community support but with a firmware project like Asuswrt-Merlin it makes recommending ASUS routers really easy. The fact ASUS is based in Taiwan and does a lot of manufacturing in Taiwan makes the choice really easy. Other router manufacturers like TP-Link are based in China, which is obviously problematic for network infrastructure.
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  14. Love your AI example of taking eggs for ping-pong balls with 100% confidence. It is hilarious!
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  15. If I tried to guess what your next video was about and bet on it, I’d be so insanely broke by now 😆 Again your content pipeline is insane man
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  16. I really enjoy your in depth analysis. Thank you for this content <3
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  17. Thank you so much for covering this. We recently built our Holiday home in Pakistan Punjab and I was always curious about where the water came from and if it would ever run out. From the reactions from most people, Pakistanis are not taking this issue as seriously as they should. Everyones response to "What if the water runs out" was "We'll just dig deeper".
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  18. I love how when you were talking about how they relied on other peoples work as dependencies I instantly was like "That sounds a lot like our old pals NodeJS/NPM" and then you immediately went into a talk about the web design comparison lol. Have you ever thought of doing interviews with people in these kinds of fields? Could be cool to hear from those dealing with it directly interspersed throughout one of these! Obviously they can't get too detailed but just general personal input would be cool to hear from those suffering on the chip frontlines lol.
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  19. Wow. So much in one video. I wish I were an academic again and could pursue this as case studies. The decreasing cost of freight is the elephant in the room; seemingly boring, but so important as globalisation increases. I would be interested in a video on how the American domestic transport industry works. Their trucks don't seem to have changed much in decades. In Australia, B-doubles are common, with two trailers rather than one. Even with conventional truck trailers, Australian trucks have an extra axle, so 6 vs 5. The USA trucking industry seems very fragmented with a lot of inertia to change. It doesn't seem to have changed much from the east to west shipping when Europe dominated decades ago, to the west to east shipping with most trade coming from Asia. Similarly, it seems strange there are so few big ports on the west coast of the USA and then mainly in space-constrained innercity LA. Then there is the rail system too.
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  20. I am Dutch, I can confirm that the culture here is quite "blunt" as he says it. The Flemish people use the term direct for it which means something like people speaking their mind and using less tact. I have been in touch with a few people who work(ed) for ASML, I know that they liked it that they were lower profile, I know that they are aware that they will loose their lead if they would take it easy, some company would catch up eventually.
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  21. I've learned so much from you! I'm going to give you 6 dollars and watch the rest of your videos
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  22. Every TSMC shareholder should follow your channel, greetings from the Dominican Republic!
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  23. These are quality videos. The breadth of your knowledge is impressive.
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  24. About Fonterra and Chile, they are trying to find a buyer for Soprole since last year because of reorganization. But also they got into one of the weirdest conspiracies because they owned the entire company (99.89% of stock) and people were making claims without evidence that Soprole was importing milk from NZ to Chile and also promoting its main competitor Colún (also a co-op) as a brand made of "pure Chilean milk". Of course nothing made sense (we import some milk but mostly dairy products, and none of it through Soprole or from NZ) but it ended in Soprole doing a campaign to tell people that their products are made with Chilean milk, and all companies putting little flags in their milk bricks 🤦🏽‍♂ Also, 1:00 West Island 😆
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  25. dude these vids are high quality af you're going to be huge this is one of my fav channels on here keep up the good work my man
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  26. Your impression of "Internet Experts" was spot on! :D
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  27. Good insight into CATL's latest direction, John. And I would agree this tech makes more sense for grid scale storage than transportation. So, why do you think 'charcoal' for anodes rather than graphite or even graphene?
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  28. Making the most boring sounding topics sound interesting is a unique specialty of yours isn't it?
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  29. Asian LV is Maotai. They both sell the perception of wealth, not handbags or alcohol. Interestingly Moutai surpassed LVMH in market cap during covid for the first time.
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  30. Not to be confused with Macaroni (dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes).
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  31. when I was a kid, I used to go spear fishing in southern CA. One time I saw a large stingray in the sand. I tried to swim down to it and it vanished in blink of an eye. pacific stingray can go 30 mph :)
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  32. I wonder if you could ever get Morris Chang and Gordon Moore in the same room to chat. That would be interesting.
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  33. Thanks. BTW the shoe manufacturing episode was enlightening. Keeps things fresh :)
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  34. Its rather depressing that he has been posting for nearly four years and despite that his subscriber base is less than the 100k mark. The subjects he has chosen are highly interesting plus the insightful and relatively objective analysis of topics makes one question the wisdom of YT's algorithm.
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  35. Really good topic, as an Australian this has a massive impact on our energy consumption so it's great to see it get good in-depth coverage.
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  36. Graphite: "Anyway, here's Van der Waal"
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  37. Thank you for these amazing videos. The hardware manufacturing world is a beast of it's own and I love learning about it through your content.
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  38. Yeah I want to know his background. He's either deeply involved and knowledgeable in the economic, tech and semiconductor space or very very good at researching and writing scripts that are dense while being easy to follow paired with excellent visualizations. No other channel I know has been pumping out this much in depth content of complex topics. He's definitely has a rare talent.
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  39. 9:01 I'd also add, that it's not just "drilling a hole" through the PCB. That would be the least of it. The hole needs to be electrically conductive and solder must adhere to it perfectly. The most usual way to do it is to deposit copper chemically.
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  40. Thank you for making such a research and qualitative content 🙏
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  41. Doing a video on BOTH china AND bitcoin? Yeah, I prime bot magnet.
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  42. don't proceed any further for your own safety or you'll encounter physicists and they're weird
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  43. A nitpick. As a GPU computing expert (working currently in Taiwan) I would say that it is not just about having cheaper and more efficient GPUs. There is still a lot to understand when constructing efficient algorithms to GPU type parallel multiprocessors - e.g. with using Nvidia CUDA tools. I have played a part in the development of some very recent ones. There is still lot to figure out.
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  44. I'm a Canadian engineer who did work in Kaohsiung, Taiwan many years ago installing a large networked SCADA system at several treatment plants for the Taiwan Water Company. Those facilities I worked on are probably are the precursors to supply the raw water used by TSMC for their fabs on the island. Cool.
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  45. This is amazing - it is rather fascinating how long they lasted given how far behind they were.
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  46. Great video as always. Thanks for the information. Can you do a general one on swarm munitions / drones
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  47. I was just about to sleep when a wild and excited, although I have to say very polite, deer rushed into my room and said: I went to ASML! I guess sleep can wait a little bit.
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  48. Your video really help me understand Taiwan and also why, here people still reminiscent about the Japanese era.
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  49. As someone close to the petrochemical industry, i'm quite heartened to see your analysis. I think the training institute CPTC which I've attended has closed. Unfortunately we probably wont see such government-private sector collaborations like we did during the founding years. Too much compliance and regulations.... GKS was really instrumental in Singapore's nation building. As much as people revered LKY, GKS was similar in stature. Their selfless attitude putting nation before self really kept Singapore ahead in the Four Asian Tigers.
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  50. "not to be confused with the politician" haha thank you for the disclaimer
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