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  1. I live in Iligan City, and I'd say, there's a huge steel masterpiece at their admin building, it's beautifully made, like a huge canvas of steel art, welded by highly skilled welders. Also, NSC was so popular back then, and the employers there were so rich they can even pawn their uniform. Even when I go to Cebu and ride a cab, when the drivers were informed that I live here, they'd immediately ask me about NSC.. I also had a chance to get inside the property, which is really strict before pandemic, and it's amazing, there are also a lot of preserved things there that were displayed like the first computer invented, the uniform, the helmet, etc., everything you'll see at NSC back then. It's not that easy to get inside though, so I was quite lucky to get the chance. Interestingly, there's a black horse roaming freely around it. :D
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  2. Having watched 7 hours of Asianometry videos today, I can confirm feeling 43% more intelligent and 64% less hungover than when I woke up this morning.
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  3. I figured this had to be a full-time gig for you, because I couldn’t imagine how you could possibly research and produce so much comment even on a full-time basis 😮 Seriously consider dropping to 1x/week: If you’re feeling burned out, you’re already more burned out than you realize. I hit terminal burnout in my own business, and 3 years later, I still don’t feel I’ve fully recovered :-/ Far better to prevent it happening in the first place, take it from someone who knows… 🙁 (But huge props and thanks for all the fantastic material you’ve provided in the past; you absolutely set the bar for tech history and narrative!)
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  4. My favorite application for mems is in aviation, since I am a recreational pilot. One of the first and most successful application of mems was accelerometers, which don't need openings in the package to work. Accelerometers can replace gyroscopes as well as enable inertial navigation, since they can be made to sense rotation as well as movement. With the advent of mems, avionics makers looked forward to replacing expensive and maintenance intensive mechanical gyroscopes with mems. A huge incentive was reliability: a gyroscope that fails can bring down an aircraft. The problem was accuracy. Mems accelerometers displayed drift that was worse than the best mechanical gyros. Previous inertial navigation systems used expensive laser gyros that worked by sending light pulses through a spool of fibre optical line and measuring the delay due to rotation. Mems accelerometers didn't get much better, but they are sweeping all of the old mechanical systems into the trash can. So how did this problem get solved? Well, the original technology for GPS satellite location was rather slow, taking up to a minute to form a "fix". But with more powerful CPUs it got much faster. But GPS cannot replace gyros, no matter how fast it can calculate. But the faster calculation enabled something incredible: the GPS calculation could be used to calibrate the mems accelerometers. By carefully calculating the math, a combined GPS/multiaxis accelerometer package can accurately and reliably find a real time position and orientation in space. You can think of it this way: GPS provides position over long periods of time,, but very accurately, and mems accelerometers provide position and orientation over short periods of time, but not so accurately. Together they achieve what neither technology can do on its own. The result has been a revolution in avionics. Now even small aircraft can have highly advanced "glass" panels, that give moving maps, a depiction of the aircraft attitude, and even a synthetic view of of the world outside the aircraft in conjunction with terrain data. It can even tell exactly which way the wind is blowing on the aircraft because this information falls out of the GPS/accelerometer calculation.
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  5. Appreciate the extremely concise video and presentation! Such a rare treat nowadays when content creators tend to spend a quarter of the time with an unnecessary intro, a tidbit of content, a sponsor, and then blabbering about saying goodbye. Keep it up!
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  6. I remember when engineering workstations were the most powerful stand alone desktop computers. They, at onetime were many time more powerful than any IBM PC (and its 386 clones) or Apple desktop computer. But, in time Moore's law changed everything, and consumer grade PCs eventually could run the most sophisticated CAD/EDA and simulation software, at a much lower cost. Sun and Apollo workstations had lost their edge. The last thing I remember from Sun was Java.
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  7. "Idk guys this video is pretty niche and probably won't do well -" Goes on to unroll the most fascinating semiconductor historical deep-dive with ample visual aid and citations. I love this channel so much.
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  8. I see asianometry, i watch asianometry
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  9. One small correction: As you said, first came contact printing, and then they provided a small gap between the mask and the wafer. This is call proximity printing. This greatly reduced defects. But to get to even more resolution, they moved the mask away from the wafer and put a lens in between the mask and the wafer. This is what is called projection printing or lithography. The image of the mask is projected onto the wafer. This was done at first across the whole wafer. To further improve resolution, they made step and repeat systems to project onto a small area of the wafer at a time. These are the steppers that we have to this day, but of course with increasingly higher resolution with every generation of the steppers.
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  10. MOM MOM ASIANOMETREY MADE ANOTHER TRANSISTOR VIDEO, GRAB THE POPCORN
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  11. Thank you so much for this video I've waited for it so long! You nailed it, as always. Much love from Bulgaria ❤ Fun fact: Todor Zhivkov once famously said on the opening of semiconductors plant: "this year a semiconductor plant, next year for whole condcutors" 😂 (I don't know if it makes sense on English as translation is hard)
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  12. The first time I visited Taipei to play a concert, it was the first trans-pacific show on our trip. It was a long day and got in very late. It was mind blowing that the 7-eleven on the corner from our hotel had absolutely everything I needed to get a good nights sleep- 300ml of Johnny walker, a gigantic lager, chapaghetti, and Winston menthols. Beautiful city, had an amazing time. <3
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  13. I've been looking for this comment. This guy not only has a great sense of humour, but he does his research. Either that, or he's a lot older than he sounds.
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  14. hope u are doing better, noticed you were down last video, dont know what happened (if anything) but just wanted to let you know my (and many many more people) appreciation for your superb content, subtle humor and excellent information! :p
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  15. Man every one of your videos is so well put together and presented. Many thanks for your time and effort in doing this. I am happily subscribed awhile ago. :)
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  16. Great video. Vietnam's story shows the importance a proper planing and learning from the mistakes others have already made regardless of party politics.
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  17. Nature documentaries are going to be insane if these things have cameras.
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  18. You treat your visit with the excitement of a child going to Disney on Christmas Day for their birthday.
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  19. I have learned more about fab processes from your channel than I did getting an electrical engineering degree.
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  20. That is so neat that your Father worked for Semi. He sure raised a bright and hard working son. I'm sure he is very proud of you. Thanks for all your work. One of the very BEST youtube channels!
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  21. 9:35 - emotional support wafer had me balling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  22. Your channel is one of the very few channels that bridges the gap between a good lay understanding of the semiconductor industry and a professional understanding of the semiconductor industry. Its a very rare thing to find in any field. I find it interesting that the "secret" part of "trade secrets" is becoming less and less important as a smaller and smaller number of people or corporations or nations are actually capable of making use of those secrets. I appreciate the explanations that companies like ZEISS give for the construction and function of their optical systems, but on its own it doesn't really increase your understanding of how the whole process works. I get a lot of people in the maker space asking questions like "why can't we 3d print our own microchips". This is why. There's no half-assing an EUV light source. Similarly, there's no half-assing ultra-pure water or the purity and precision of reagents and gasses used in semiconductor manufacture. One microscopic droplet of process oil in a gas stream is enough to ruin a processor, or, worse, ruin a photo-mask. If you're lacking for ideas for videos, one of the things I don't really understand well is how wafers are cut and polished. I'm assuming this has had to keep up with the process nodes as well.
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  23. Surprised you didn't talk about the benchmarks of Hygon over at AnandTech or Level1Tech.
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  24. As a ML researcher it is interesting to watch, unless run at extreme scales, regular chips are just enough especially for inference
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  25. We often use the moon landings as an example of what humans can do when sufficiently motivated and financed. The tech used to make computer chips makes all the Apollo stuff look simple.
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  26. Would love a vid maybe expanding a bit on the alternatives to EUV such as nano-imprint (pushed, as it is, by the Japanese) or advances in packaging/stacking (?) which I've read may be one good way to reduce the overemphasis on and/or need for ever-more expensive lithography equipment. Sorry if there is already a video on this
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  27. DUDE. I understand you feel the crunch of posting regularly for the algorithm, but I believe you can trust a bit more on that effect that a certain type of creator can achieve: of making such a quality of content that it really doesn't matter when or how often it drops, it'll be instantrly promoted to high in the queue. I think that, for you, with your type of content, it is WAY more important to have the energy to do a full quality dive into your topics than to push harder than you should to keep up the quantity.
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  28. In 1982, I was privileged to derive benefits from the 2 Wang Word Processors. Previously we had to proof read the printed papers from IBM Selectric typewriters; and we dreaded changes because that meant that the secretaries had to retype the page itself. With the Wang Word Processors, we could read the text in the CRT and made corrections before being printed. And even after printing, we could make changes and it was so much faster to edit and print again: something that we take for granted nowadays. The honour of using the Wang Word Processors were only given to the senior secretaries and the junior ones had to wait to learn and use. The reason? Each word processor costs SGD 18k then; and a fresh accounting graduate's monthly salary was only around $1k. LOL
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  29. It always interested me how at&t was viewed by many as the innovative tech company of the time while today we view it as nothing more than a basic service
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  30. I would guess 99% of people have no idea how complex and coordinated (between many companies and countries) making chips is. Thank you for making some of us a bit more knowledgeable. Literally, a bit.
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  31. Great video! Please continue to make this Sovietometry content.
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  32. I really appreciate the seriousness and respect with which you tackled this topic (though this could really be said about all your videos)
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  33. Yes I used to make rubylith masks for thick film printing and that was painful enough let alone trying to cut a chip design. It was quite satisfying when done but stressful until the last strip had been removed without tearing.
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  34. "With great flexibility comes great misakeability." I love it! 🙂
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  35. As someone doing their PhD in advanced packaging, I'm glad it's being discussed 😊 can't wait for the 3DHI video
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  36. I love how your videos center semiconductors in compelling human stories 💪❤️
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  37. Brilliant short summary. I really like this channel.
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  38. Thank you for the to-the-point informative video. It's worth mentioning that the Chinese crypto mining operations were by and large situated in areas that rely heavily on coal based energy (such as Inner Mongolia). From an ecological point of view, this pretty much makes crypto mining an environmental disaster.
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  39. Since you mentioned the ITA, perhaps you will be interested in its creation, its role in the creation of Embraer and the whole Brazilian aeronautical industry.
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  40. I've learned more about semiconductors from your channel than any other youtube "documentary" video ever. Thanks for sharing your detailed knowledge. Truly a joy to listen to someone talk about their passion.
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  41. Damn I'd never even heard of Wang labs before today but they must have been formidable. Really sad story, thanks for the excellent content as always.
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  42. Every time I watch your videos, I feel a little smarter about a subject I knew nearly nothing about. I appreciate the lessons, thank you.
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  43. Lmaoo That mom joke caught me off-guard
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  44. From the first slide you can see that the former Czechoslovakia, if they would have stayed together, would export almost as many cars as the USA. Incredible.
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  45. You didn't mention one of the key aspects of Google's TPU (and other specialist AI processor) compared to a GPU is also the number representation. GPUs can process 32 and 16 bit IEEE floating point numbers. But for AI work Google found that the fractional part of the number (commonly known as the mantissa) is less important than the magnitude (the exponent) and so they changed the number of bits allocated to each in their own BFLOAT16 format. That makes their processors better for AI, but relatively useless of other kinds of numerical computation.
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  46. "for fear of entering the quantum realm" That was a good line
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  47. The acquired podcast mentioned/praised the Asianometry channel in one of their Nvidia episodes. Now Asianometry mentioning acquired, is making it full circle
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  48. I think a lot people (including me) thought it was about government policies that was near sighted from the title.
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  49. Just watched this with the whole team, thanks for featuring this! 💎 And simply amazing how you condensed such a complex topic into 17mins!
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  50. Was surprised that a lot was talked about on yield management without mentioning KLA, the toolmaker whose whole business is built on defect detection. Otherwise fantastic overview on what keeps TSMC at the top of the game.
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