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  1. As an expat in Taipei and an employer too. I have come across this discussion a lot. Except for real estate everything else is cheap compared to neighbouring cities like Hong Kong, Shanghai or Seoul. Education, Health care, Electricity, Fuel prices, Public transportation, etc are not expensive in this region. I have lived in Singapore and Hong Kong enough years to understand the difference. And being an employer I understand the difficulty of paying salaries. Almost 80% of the small business owners pay more salary than the income they draw for themselves. This is the truth, If minimum wage is increased again, we will just see more 'shop space for rent' boards as we already see way too many. Also, I wish English teaching expats and youtubers grasp a better idea about this than just say things like the money is not going to the workers. In a fight with big corporations regarding them paying less salary to their employees, small businesses come to their streets along with their families. Taiwanese companies need to pay more salary and Taiwanese businesses have to at least survive.
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  2. Your videos are of exceptional quality. Such a great digest and straight to the point. I would love to know how you go about your research when picking a topic and your process from research to scripted video. Very cool thanks!
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  3. As a Denso employee i am definitely feeling this issue every day
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  4. One more informative piece of Taiwan's history. Very good as always.
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  5. wild seeing oberkochen on youtube! my extended family lives there, it's a really wonderful little village (with a massive zeiss factory on the edge!)
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  6. Thank you so much indeed. I can’t wait for these titles. I am starting a new job in a semi conductor company in January. 🤞
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  7. 15:38 I was shocked to hear how expensive my grandma's hearing aid was, considering it's basically the same as a set of 50 bucks bluetooth headphones.
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  8. I mean I’d watch a video about pencils from Asianometry
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  9. Streaming has lead to big changes (and some big lawsuits) on how actors are paid. Big name talent would normally get a percentage of gross revenues, but that’s impossible to figure out with an all-you-can-eat platform.
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  10. Love this! Singaporean here!
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  11. Great work Asianometry.
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  12. The following is a list of reservoirs in Singapore. There are a currently 17 reservoirs which are designated as national water catchment areas and are managed by the Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Singapore.
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  13. 1:11 What is the heck is going on with that photo??? Was the miner photoshopped in!!? 😂
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  14. A great movie about the waishengren experience would be the Taiwanese movie, "Paradise in Service." Although told by a native Taiwanese soldier, the life of his drill sergeant shares light about this.
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  15. TSMC Chairman Terry Gou has announced he is dumping all $28B into Gamestop Stock.
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  16.  @Asianometry  To be more precise. Many basic computational algorithms have existed for a long time before GPUs, but their GPU specific implementations are not always known: usually the naive in implementation is very inefficient. Therefore new algorithms are needed for taking the benefits from the processors. ... But yeah, I am just commenting on this because it is kind of something I have to think about every day. I like your videos, and I have learned many interesting things from them. Keep up the good work! :)
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  17. Thank you for making this video. Inexpensive goods have a human cost attached to them, and it is hidden from the consumer intentionally.
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  18. Good video again. I will like to see more videos on the whole chip design/manufacturing process. Thanks
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  19. Very interesting 18 minute video looking at Malaysia's attempts to move up the value chain into semiconductor fabrication. Speaking of Malaysia, I was very surprised to learn how many large and relatively complex appliances (like fridges and air conditioners) are manufactured in South East Asia: Samsung fridges are made in Malaysia, and Mitsubishi Air Conditioners are made in Thailand. Thailand also manufactures mechanical hard drives (eg, Western Digital HDDs). I'm still not sure why the bigger South Korean and Japanese firms chose to outsource to South East Asia over China, but it's great that consumers have a cost competitive alternative from different regions when they decide what to purchase!
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  20. I appreciate your mention of west island a far less important but still interesting part of nz.
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  21. The comedy in this episode is gold!
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  22. This channel is so fantastic, keep up the good work!
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  23. this is really informative! I like how mediatek has grown in the last few years, especially in terms of the 5G technology
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  24. These history videos are really interesting. Thank you!
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  25. You are a breath of fresh air for my mind. Thank you.
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  26. This is an amazing channel. Most of the topics you post are of interest to me and they are well done!
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  27. This is awesome! I love your channel so much, thank you for your work! I appreciate details like this deeply, because it makes it clear what details of a technology are meaningful and which are just path-dependent idiosyncrasies. The search for tube replacement, the name "transistor" itself, the idea for planar technology and ICs, even the choice of packaging for 4004 - all these details matter, it's the difference between remembering a fact and understanding the causality and meaning of ideas. One more thing that I oftentimes do after your videos is looking up interviews, notes and papers of the people involved, and listen to their direct speech. We're lucky to have many of them captured on film and audio, and many are still alive!
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  28. ​ @gryzman  Asianometry is known for intentionally including glaring errors as a joke and to drive engagement in the comment section
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  29. Can you make a video about Mediatek in a future episode ? Love these vids btw
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  30. ME TOO SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!!
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  31. Though nothing technical in this video, somehow it shortens the distance between chips and me. Btw, I was born and grew up in Tainan till my teenage. Tainan in some way is special in Taiwan. Many of my friends like my Taiwanese speaking. They say Tainan folks speak the most elegant Taiwanese 😊. It is also the place Dutch built their colonial government 4 centuries ago. The first real government in Taiwan history. You still can visit the fort and government buildings built by Dutch today. They are very well maintained. And some of my childhood friends have red hair, something from Dutch gene pools.
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  32. I worked on several LSI Logic designs when I was employed at Hughes Aircraft back in the day. It was an 8000-gate (6400 usable) chip.
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  33. you should make a vid maybe comparing all the equipment makers like applied klac lam asml etc also one about pat and intel would be cool. also this was a great vid i love these.
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  34. Kudos to your correct pronunciation of Llano. Respect.
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  35. This story remind me that the conflict in WW2 and the cooperation after WW2 between US and Japan, which proved that human kind is kind enough to forgive the hatred and reach a better future together. Wonderful story.
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  36. Man really the first Patron i consider signing up for.
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  37. Informative, thanks. Do you have any interest in making videos about Western involvement in Taiwan, eg the French invasion, the Rover Incident, the Dutch, Spanish, and the European treaty ports?
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  38. Your coverage of the silicon tech-sphere is really damn good! I've gotten SO much more gems here than I've been able to scrounge up any where else combined. Thanks a lot! :D
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  39. The story of the man from Anhui was riveting.
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  40. Chang sound great. Not only is he 90 years old but he is a very rich 90 years old. Too bad he had to leave so soon. Very intelligent guy!
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  41. Truly the level of detailed analysis we've all come to expect from Asianometry
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  42. About the research, this is something that I'm thinking for some time now. He does a LOT of research AND reading. He keeps pumping these videos at a rapid pace and all with a lot of research that should take some time, with the detail that on topics that I already know a bit he casually drops a lot of information that I rarely see mentioned by other channels covering the same topic. Asianomety is a machine man (or maybe he just knows how to google better?).
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  43. You mentioned Taiwanese contract manufacturing firms Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron, which are used by literally all the companies in the world, from Apple, to Nintendo, to HP etc. There's probably an interesting story as to why most of the world's best electronics assembly firms are based in Taiwan. (Well except for Samsung, which owns and operates all their overseas factories, whilst being competitive with TSMC in semiconductors fabrication and being highly competitive consumer electronics company that happens to be the world-leader in OLED displays and flash memory. Samsung really impresses me by the way)
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  44. I loved your mixing of institutional history with personal memory of your father role in the semiconductor industry. That makes a historical narrative great.
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  45. As a Malaysian, I thank you for giving a fair and objective discussion on this topic. Too often us Malaysians are hard on ourselves and we're too quick to criticise policy failures rather than examining the problem. From your videos, it's enlightening how challenging this industry can be and other nations have also tried and end up in the same boat. Frankly, it's uncanny how much your videos on Taiwan resonate to many of the problems we're facing but at much earlier phases of development. I think one of the problems could also be attributed to a mixed message about local labour or talent. On one hand, development agencies will market how competitive labour costs are. Making labour cost a USP sends a wrong message when you're trying to compete for skilled workers. It's funny to see some employers expect an Ivy League quality hire with $14-16k annual pay package. While many employers are bumping wages to remedy this, it's still nowhere near as competitive and talent retention continues to be a problem. Also, what's less spoken of is the setting of "convoluted priorities" especially when problems have snowballed. You've already noted some evidence of this with the choice for local appointments for Silterra than finding qualified, experienced executives for leadership positions. Coupled with the talent bidding/retention issue as mentioned, it may be the case that red tape and socioeconomic KPIs could have led to interventions on business decisions at the (unintended?) expense of building a viable enterprise. It happens too often problems snowball and Khazanah ends up in a position of trying to fix a leaky ship while juggling pressures to retain jobs, industry capacity etc. It's really unfortunate because Khazanah, as a strategic investor, spends a lot of their capital and brain trust fixing problems which could have otherwise be spent seeding or supporting new growth opportunities.
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  46. Once again fantastic video! Would love to see how Applied Materials product line is different from Tokyo Electron.
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  47. Holy cow! Phenomenal story
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  48. "Humans aren't designed perfectly" My lower back 100% agrees with this statement.
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  49. Your videos are fantastic for such a small channel you have. I am happy you are uploading more frequently but you shouldn't be turning off comments on I guess what you considering more controversial vids. The comment section is the modern day Roman forum. Or at least get a discord server.
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  50. New video from YouTube's most underrated channel? Time to stop what I'm doing and watch it :)
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