Comments by "" (@ntabile) on "How Japan Learned Semiconductors" video.

  1. I'm previously in semiconductor assembly and presently in waferfab assembly. Us Engineers pronounce it as Dee-ram S-Ram SDee ram though.
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  2. In the 80s and 90s they were the leading edge or in parity with the western world in producing memory chips. They are also good in producing semiconductor assembly tools either in the wafer fab or in post wafer fab assemblies. I work earlier in a post assembly company where japanese tools are better than american tools. I.e. dicing tools: DISCO as against KNS. Wirebonding: Shinkawa and Kaijo Denki versus Kulicke and Soffa. On the other hand at wafer fabrication they are at parity with the western companies in the memories and discrete components from the 80s to early 2000s. During the early 2000s there were a lot of fab around the world that produces memories that oversupplied the market thus price collapses which slowly closes down a lot of memory fabs. You can count on your fingers and toes the present fabs that produces memory chips. Thus the Japanese leads in chip mfg. and post assembly tools production slowed down.
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  3. Us asians in a semiconductor industry pronounces it those ways either.
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  4. On the other hand, SONY acronyms stands for Sound of New York?
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  5. Shouldn't that be an issue? At present TSMC is making fab in Arizona, Samsung in Texas and Congress pass a law with regards to wafer fab manufacturing?
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  6. Correction: Kaiju Denki
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  7.  @jtgd  Sarcasm?
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  8. Someone is not happy with that!!
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  9. Whatever
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  10. As I keep reading the posts it gets annoying how does we pronounces it. Anyway, whatever is okay to me now.
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  11. Come on. America is behind the lithography business. ASML of Netherlands is on the leading edge right now. Second is Japan with Canon, Nikon and TEL. Correct me if there's some American company that produce Litho equipments. AMAT is not. Other than that, they lead on other wafer fab equipment steps.
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  12. I remember Lucent Technologies an offshoot of AT&T. They produces communication chips. Now its under Alcatel.
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  13. Hehehe
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  14. Well, Im still working in the semiconductor mfg. From assembly and test field up to wafer fabrication mfg from 90s up to present.
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  15. I give you an example: I'm from Asia. There are instances during the early covid period that our technicians were sent to a sister company in Germany just to clean their Etching tools. - Other factors: Not enough manpower. Another one: Work ethics in the fab industry. They dont do Overtime work with pay. Just what we obseved.
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  16. Heehee
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