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  1. "Financial services were the only growth industry." Sounds like microcosm of Britain.
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  2. Silly? Not at all! As a matter of fact, you gave me another dimension to like your channel. Not only is my job in IT ( thus luv the tech videos), but I do IT for real estate! All of the content here was great! Insights into franchises, what it takes to get a business off the ground, being relevant to the place you operate in, and how dynamic retail can be. Do more! It's great content!
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  3. The problem is their pension fund cannot keep up. Korea's GDP per capita was only less than US$250 in 1969 & above US$30,000 now. So whatever savings, even high %, that these elderly during their prime, would not be sufficient for today's spending. Normal interests rates would not be able to make up the difference. Singapore's CPF, (401k like pension fund) also face this issue. However Singapore had anticipated this and encouraged home ownership, especially for lower income through HDB. This way they could share the economic growth & success of the country. A HDB flat bought in 1970s at US$20k could worth US$500k today, providing good means of retirement fund.... either through downgrade of house or reverse-mortgage (LBS). That's why Singapore elderly are often call themselves, asset rich, cash poor. This could also encourage their children or relatives to take care of them in hope to inherit these assets.
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  4. As an electrical engineer, RF is, generally speaking, the blackest art in the whole discipline. The tech that goes into making the RF front-end bits in modern smartphones is on a whole other level, though. In addition to the craziness that is the filters you show here, I'd be fascinated to see your take on the incomprehensible antenna designs that somehow tune and work reasonably efficiently on six or more bands, or the power amplification and oscillator circuitry that operates clear through UHF and a big chunk of the microwave band.
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  5. "guy she told you not to worry about" šŸ˜‚
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  6. 11:22 ā€œGraphene, a carbon-based nanomaterial that can do everything except leave the laboratory.ā€ Nature and Science should put that up on their paper submitting system
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  7. -"Comrades, you have lead melting temperatures, bottom of the ocean pressure and you know that acid in car batteries? Yeah that too.... so we need pictures" -"Colour or b&w?" -"Yes"
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  8. "Aids, a generally unwanted condition". šŸ˜…šŸ˜…šŸ˜… I'm dead
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  9. Short answer: No. Long answer: Nope.
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  10. It's not at all surprising Warren Buffett declined to invest in a company that took a really smart guy to run it. Considering he has said he prefers companies that could be run by a ham sandwich.
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  11. I appreciate that you compared the cost of computers to the cost of a graduate student - that is an accurate way to depict what that relationship looks like
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  12. My dad was one of those employees who lost their jobs due to the closure of NSC. As an accountant to the company he said during the time of fvr, the company was mismanaged and that there were too much higher level workers(manager supervisors and etc) than of the lower level ones.
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  13. Jon slowly working their way to making a video about everything that has the word yield associated with it
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  14. Can we take a moment to apreciate how well written and explained Asianometry's videos are?
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  15. Jon, you sound exhausted. Please take the time to recover, whatever you need. The new year will bring its own challenges and victories.
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  16. Some wafer technology doesnā€™t scale to larger wafers very well. Particularly non-silicon wafers that can only be produced in 150mm and 200mm sizes before inherent wafer defects create significant yield problems. 300mm equipment may double output, but it is often 5x+ regarding capital expenditure and maintenance cost.
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  17. You didnā€™t mention one thing, the real winner of the Lexus was the Camry. It became a Lexus lite and destroyed the US and world car market. There was a huge difference between pre and post Lexus Camrys. Just massive.
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  18. Your channel goes so far above and beyond in detail compared to others. You kill it bro, thanks for what you do.
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  19. Iā€™m glad you pointed out something Iā€™ve been saying for years: youā€™re not seeing what the camera sees, youā€™re seeing what the phone generates. Itā€™s not a bad thing, because the raw data coming from that sensor is close to unusable. Optical designers canā€™t overcome the laws of physics.
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  20. 7-11 in Taiwan is CRAZY convenient. My uncle once got a parking ticket for $60 NTD, and 2 minutes later he went across the street to the 7-11 and paid off the ticket and got the usual lotto receipt to play the monthly drawing. My uncle told me at the time it was just easier to pay the ticket later than to find a parking meter because after all that's said and done, it's all just a wash and to him $60NTD for a parking ticket isn't bad and nothing really happens as long as you pay it on time. Considering how many 7-11 there are, you have no excuse. I forgot to mention we ended up buying ice cream and some other snacks which were more than the parking ticket itself, LOL!!!
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  21. I work at a fab in facilities and just started taking care of the water systems and this video really helped understand wtf is going on. Thank you for the great research!
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  22. .. I lived in Taiwan for 4 years, the salary is not that much but the perks as a citizen and residents are good, free medical coverage for all people, no need to buy drugs, free hospitalization, food is affordable, computers and appliances are very affordable, transportation is quite cheap, and standards as a society is very high... so what else do you need....
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  23. I have no words to describe how much your work is amazing .. keep it up .. no channel is even close to your work
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  24. I worked at Sun from 2006 until the Oracle acquisition. A company who were truly, tremendously good to their employees, with incredible internal resources and staff. But every year after the first was one crisis after another. Amusingly Sun was, like all other enterprises at the time I joined, a total Blackberry shop. How quickly RIM's empire collapsed after the iPhone was released was interesting to view from that perspective considering how things were going internally.
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  25. Its interesting that they were able to make such large cuts to the pensions. In the US the older people are the ones with the highest voting turn out, so its very difficult to touch their benefits
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  26. Dear Asianometry, As a young man in my early 20's working for the massive San Francisco Law Firms, I remember the entire floor was the Word Processing floor, it was composed of 30 to 40 women working on IBM Mag Card Selectrics using carbon paper. When the elevator door opened the noise was loud and staggering, and the room was filled with a blue-gray pallor in the air as everyone of the operators smoked ( mostly women of course ). All of that changed. One day I came to work and was doing a delivery to the Word Processing floor, and as the elevator door opened, the floor was quit, no smoke and almost empty except for 6 or 8 individuals working on these strange large cabinet like things with keyboards and screens, the word WANG was at the top. Fascinated I walked over and watched over the shoulder of one of the operators as they showed me how they could store entire pages of information and move words, sentences, or paragraphs all over the page, They were expensive, but the saved the firm a fortune in wages and benefits, and it was like looking at the future.
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  27. This is actually one of the biggest "secrets" of Singapore. Nowadays, when tourists visit Singapore, they only see shiny hotels and beautiful parks. What they miss is how Singapore's wealth is actually created. Jurong island can be seen from the coastal side, it's massive...!!
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  28. Letā€™s all give a huge applause to Asianometry for always putting immense time into research. Always superb work.
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  29. If there was alcohol in those icebergs Australia would've done this a long time ago
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  30. Saddest thing is not a lot of people will realize the amount of effort that went into making a single RF filter, let alone the whole phone.
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  31. As one of your 3 female viewers (šŸ˜‚), I want to say thank you. Iā€™ve subscribed to your Patreon a looong time ago and I like almost every video. The hearing aid video was fascinating. Good luck and if you ever come to Switzerland, Iā€™m happy to have lunch with you. :)
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  32. As a Brit who works in the semiconductor industry (albeit not in the north east of England) that was a seriously impressive video. Your summary at the end was spot on too! Thank you for all your hard work @asianometry.
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  33. This is truly an astounding machine. Kudos to all the scientists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, and precision fabricators for pulling it off.
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  34. Consider doing a video on Borland the seminal software tools and applications company. It was a huge part of the software industry from the mid-1980's through mid-1990's. Borland revolutionized and democratized software development by bringing its integrated software development environment (IDE) concept/tool to the masses. In 1990, Borland and Microsoft were the biggest software tool makers. Philippe Kahn was a swash buckling figure, ambitious and capable enough to challenge Microsoft on all fronts. It's quite possible Microsoft only defeated Borland because of anti-competitive, monopolistic actions (e.g. Windows ain't done until Lotus won't run), which it was later convicted of. It's worth noting that Anders Hejlsberg, inventor of C# and TypeScript, was Borland's langugage designer. Thanks for your edutaining videos. Best wishes.
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  35. This is seriously my favorite channel. I know NOTHING about any of this stuff, and after watching your videos I still don't know anything, but it sure is interesting.
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  36. Nooooo way!!!! I'm a huge fan of your channel!!! Can't believe you made a video about my city
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  37. From a Mechatronics engineer in a poor country with zero high tech industry (Colombia): thanks a lot for your analysis of the semiconductor industry, it absolutely blows my mind!! Much respect for Taiwan and South Korea, amazing people!!!
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  38. I has NO idea this is what it took to make EUV light for this manufacturing process. It's hard to believe, that out of all the people working on this, that this was the solution they landed on. Truly spectacular engineering and science. (if not straight up bonkers)
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  39. I really like that you make videos about such a broad range of topics. From semi-conductors, etc. to antibiotics. And all of it informative, not using to the entertainment addiction of most people nowadays. Maybe entertainment addiction psychology would be an interesting video topic?
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  40. Please continue to wander wherever you want Jon
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  41. I simply had no idea how interesting dirt could be. Dude you rock!
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  42. I took a walk today, and passed by Samsung Semiconductor, ASML, and Maxim Integrated buildings. Seeing ASML made me think of Zeiss, and lo and behold, a video on the topic is released by your channel! Great content as always.
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  43. I remember how sharp the transition was from film to digital. I had a Nikon F2 with some fantastic lenses. Love that thing. The controls were perfectly placed. I could bang off 2-3 shots per second without a motor drive, focusing and tracking a moving car or running athlete. I bought a small dinky digital camera for experimenting, it was both horrible and liberating. The freedom of seeing shots immediately, of not having to take several shots of static scenes with bracketing exposures and wait for development, that crappy low resolution camera took over from the Nikon for that reason alone. Several companies kept claiming they were working on replacement camera backs which would make the Nikon digital, but none ever came through. I still miss that Nikon, I can still feel the perfect shutter button and winder, but if someone offered me a free one now with lifetime film, I still would prefer the phone camera, because the crappy camera you have is better than the superb one you left at home because it's so bulky.
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  44. I work in a cleanroom assembling these machines for ASML. We hold tolerances in microns and this video gives a good explanation of just why we do that lol
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  45. THE RANGE OF THIS CHANNEL! Literally I was so here for the sausage video last week that made me laugh and I thought was cool, and then also talking about serious stuff like this! Iā€™ve thought about this a lot actually, and as a non-Asian whoā€™s dedicated to learning more about Asian cultures and history, Iā€™ve unfortunately come across a fair share of Han supremacist sentiment. Because diaspora tend to keep to their own communities in other countries, I donā€™t think itā€™s really recognized as a phenomenon in the English speaking world. I enjoyed the detail and thought of this video, and thereā€™s a lot of parallels that could be explored (racial ideas in Japan for example also sound eerily similar) although ofc I respect the Taiwan/China focus of your channel. Super fascinating, super important, amazingly done!
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  46. Donā€™t shy away from more lithography videos, obviously if they add insight (which you have a keen sense for), you have shown you are the guy to make them. Thanks!
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  47. one way to feel old: you see a video of a historic review of things that happened during your professional lifetime. I fondly remember playing with a multics system in the ep500 scouts Wednesday nights after school. It had variable length segments of memory and we wrote code for it in PL/1.
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  48. Where I work we use 18.7MĪ© UPW for ultrasonically washing massive coffee table size glass substrates before they're loaded into metal oxide electron beam vapor deposition chambers to be multi-layer dielectric coated with Bragg diffraction interference polarizers, anti-reflection coatings, and mirrors used in the construction of ultra-high power neodymium glass lasers for inertial confinement fusion research. The particle counter on the final deionized water loop from Particle Measuring Systems that detects down to 30nm diameter particles is the size of a desktop PC and costs about as much as my house. The software that runs the counter from the same company is actually amazingly crap and looks like something from the windows 3.1 era. Also PS, I really wish the ridiculous and very old myth of ultrapure water being "so toxic and corrosive because it sucks minerals out of everything it touches" would finally die. It's not. I've drank it. It's just water, it tastes great, I didn't die. The instant it touches your tongue, or you, or ANYthing except the hyperpure fluorinated polymer pipes that it runs through, it's not ultra-pure anything anymore, it's just normal water again with normal water's normal properties. One of those properties is actually really interesting - people always say water is clear and it just looks blue because it's reflecting the sky or has junk dissolved into it or whatever, but that's wrong, it's ACTUALLY blue. When we fill a super shiny stainless steel ultrasonic washer with it the color gradually gets bluer and bluer as it gets deeper and there's obviously no particle impurities in there doing it. All the color is coming from the third overtone of the stretching mode of the hydroxy group part of the water molecule absorbing a tiny amount of far red light in the tail of the absorption peak.
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  49. Wow, Jocelyn Lleno is sill active in the industry. She was working at the San Francisco fab wiring circuits onto wafers by hand and now is in a senior position at Global Foundries in Upstate New York.
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  50. Dear Asianometry, I was born and raised in Hood River OR USA and I know this story very well, Hood River OR had a quite large community of Japanese-American farmers, many of them quite successful. In High School I went on one of my very first dates with a local girl. My Parents found out, and delicately informed me that it was their wish that I stop seeing her. Having never behaved in such a way before I was taken aback. No she was not Japanese American. When the US Government ( in a fit of racist paranoia as no German Americans went to camps ) sent the Japanese Americans to "...The Camps..." they had to leave their homes, possessions, but worse they had to leave their land, and farmland does not take care of itself. Often they would sell the land for a $ 1.00 someone in the area who would promise to sell it back when the war was over, and when they came back. The insult to their injury was that for some of them, when they came back they could not get their land back, or if they did, the land had been commercially raped, no fertilizer, no pruning, no care of any kind. The caretaker owners had sold every piece of fruit on the tress, year after year at top US Army prices, and making a small fortune. So when the Japanese-American family came back from the camps, and assuming they could even get their own property back, the farm had to be plowed up and started from scratch at great cost. Those who profited from the Japanese-Americans misfortunes were known, many of the more "liberal" or Christian members in the valley knew who these people were, it was a small world after all, and refused to associate with them socially or even in business ( some were even family ), and this is where my girlfriend story emerges, her family was one of those that had profited and my Parents had rejected her family. There was a deep, deep rift of feelings within the European-American community over this, it was a scar that lasted for many decades after the war.
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