Comments by "" (@Gameboygenius) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1.  @Graham_Wideman  Thank you. I knew that had to be a joke, but I had no idea what it was referring to.
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  2.  @cbuchner1  it's sad that if Jon makes one legitimate mistake, people start pointing out his obvious jokes as well, which his videos are filled with. The barbarians (barbar-ions?) are breaching the gate. Just like real world barbarians were known to breach the city gates to plunder the city and cause chaos. Barium is not a common component of Li ion cells, so autocorrect is an unlikely explanation.
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  3. The halting will have some level of abruptness no matter what due to the inertia of a heavy moving object.
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  4. I think it's unlikely that a color system with a 4th channel will ever be adopted. One of the reasons being essentially the network effect: why buy the extended display if there are no images that can make use of it, and why produce images if there are no displays... Projectors do often use a color wheel with non-primary colors added: cyan, yellow and transparent (ie white). But i think this has more to do with efficiency/brightness, ie maximizing on-time for the light during a frame, rather than increasing the color gamut.
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  5. "What do you mean, like laundry?"
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  6. This is some pretty specific reminiscing. Is there some logical reason why three people from the Lake Oswego area would've found their way to this channel? (This could for example be robust education or job opportunities in electronics in the area, leading to this path of interest.) Or is it just chance and a game of numbers?
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  7.  @poofygoof  "Silicon Forest" That answers my question then. :)
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  8. Are you talking about gamma radiation from radioactive materials? One of several issues with shorter wavelengths, whether it's x-ray or gamma, is making a mask that won't leak photons. Would probably need to be a mask made of gold for the opaque parts.
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  9. The end of the quantum tunnel.
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  10. Haha! But she would be the "AMD chair" if anything. The ARM chair (chairman of the ARM board) would be Masayoshi Son.
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  11.  @bipolarman9246  Yes, that's obviously a factor. But also: They can find talent their. It's a country which is on generally friendly terms with Taiwan. Japan is a strategic market. It has to tick all the boxes.
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  12. He already did... Sort of. Did you see the one on atomic layer deposition?
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  13. The advantage of the traditional 6 transistor SRAM cell is power consumption. You can make a 4 transistor cell where you replace two transistors with pullups. However, those pullups (one or the other depending on the state of the cell) will permanently drain energy, where as the 6T cell will have 0 static current, other than leakage through the SiO2. It's also more complicated to manufacture since you need to fit a high value resistor above the transistors, on the same footprint, or you will effectively have negated the space saved from reducing the amount of transistors. And any fewer transistors than that, and you've effectively built a DRAM cell, with similar considerations as any other DRAM. Bigger picture: what are you going to use the imagined "R&D" device for? Economy and scalability is everything. There probably aren't many scenarios where giant SRAM makes sense over buying more compute power and/or DRAM and parallelizing the tasks. Certainly not for producing millions of phones or thousands of AI devices for a datacenter. The realization in the discussion about HBM is that sometimes it isn't the silicon that's the limiting factor, but the system design and the interconnects.
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  14. For April 1, 2024, maybe he ought to make a video where every sentence rhymes.
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  15. Nope, it was blurred, so it was at most a neck reveal.
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  16. Sooner or later the waste leaves the fab. And when regulation comes, and it almost certainly will eventually, it will affect everyone. The difference is that semiconductors are more reliant on PFAS than most industries.
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  17. You're being sarcastic, but consider this. He lives in Taiwan and often speaks about Taiwan as a free and independent country. That already is a no-go. He even opens this video by mocking the CCP propaganda outlet China Daily for a factual error. Does that sound like something someone paid by the Chinese government would do?
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  18.  @lucasfernandesgrotto6279  "you get to do the memory, and we'll do compute."
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  19.  @MostlyPennyCat  funnily I never said in the comment that it did work either. Personally I'm of the opinion that the act of removing and inserting the cartridge does most of the work from friction. The saliva explanation sound very much like one of those justifications, "maybe it does something in theory". But can't y'all blow air without spraying the whole place with saliva?
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  20.  @William-Morey-Baker  read the sentence again. I said that when the cartridge doesn't work, you shouldn't blow into it.
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  21. @jasonmorgan661 really? Do you have any source for the zener diodes that won't conduct? Any news/articles or anything else. By reverse, do you mean reverse as in the direction of the zener breakdown or reverse compared to the working direction, ie the actual forward direction of the diode?
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  22. The saw is essentially like a thin foil rotating at extreme speeds. The thickness of the cut can be as small as 20 um (yes micrometers) or even smaller in specialized applications.
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  23.  @mrJety89  That's just the width. It's still a circular blade. I don't know the dimensions, but probably a diameter in the order of hundreds of millimeters/several inches. I don't suspect the width is a problem for the cutting speed.
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  24. What?
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  25. I remember he addressed once as follows: "you gotta live a little"
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  26. It'S aCtUaLlY dEe-RaM!
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  27. Kind of, kind of not. In architecture, each new floor costs marginally so little compared to the marginal value it adds that it makes sense to build higher. A more apt analogy is that building higher was what they did before hitting the limitations described in the video. So finfets is as if now everyone would have to build cantilever buildings or buildings with holes in them to pass wind flow, to compensate for not being able to build higher. So in my opinion examples of "finfet buildings" might be The Link in Dubai (cantilever skybridge between two buildings) or 432 Park Avenue in NYC (a very tall building in comparison to its footprint.)
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  28. I'm doubtful because it seems like it would be difficult to use a mask that way. You could essentially sputter coat but, put a mask between the source and the substrate. But this would likely clog the mask real quick, making the mask essentially single use. Or, you could not use a mask, but instead use a focused ion beam to draw a vector image. I've heard of FIBs used in silicon reverse engineering where they can draw a conductive track between two points, basically a nano scale patch wire. This works in principle, but it would probably take years to finish a single die with billions of transistors. Just like with 3D printing it would be slow as hell because you can only process one tiny spot at a time.
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  29. No. SRAM is digital, but it is considered its own category. Because of its repeating structures, it has slightly different manufacturing considerations from digital logic.
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  30.  @poetryflynn3712  completely incorrect characterization. 3G is wholly insufficient for most people today, for things like video playback. 3G gives you 7 Mbps. 1080p video will typically require 5 Mbps and most phones have 1080p or higher resolution screens today. You will get dropouts/degraded video quality at the slightest congestion or poor reception. 4G is what's sufficient for most people. 5G theoretically has even higher bandwidth, but the problem for consumers is short range and poor availability, which often leads to worse service than 4G in practice. Your comment about the government makes me think your real sticking point about 5G is that you believe some conspiracy theory about it.
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  31.  @poetryflynn3712  it's a "want" but what consumers "want", businesses "need" to provide. But the security concerns people are worried about is not that people will only have access to 3G instead of 5G or whatever. The infrastructure is getting built regardless, and the concern is that the manufacturer could gather intelligence about infrastructure due to close collaboration with telcos, or even implant backdoors/security vulnerabilities into the equipment.
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  32.  @poetryflynn3712  additionally. re: optic fibers. Regardless of which wireless technology you use, you realistically need a backbone of optic fibers for bulk communication across long distances and for home connections. Re: 5G. Not sure what cybersecurity operations governments would do over a wireless link. Whatever it is, it would probably be done from a server in a data center.
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  33. Truly one of the classic songs by Integrated Circuit Production (ICP).
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  34. Ah, another person who doesn't know the difference between Taiwan and the People's Republic?
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  35.  @Joker-no1fz  No over your head.
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  36. He mentioned the cerium slurry briefly, but not scandium for piezoelectric films. Interesting!
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  37. Yes, because people from Taiwan are known for their support for the CCP, aren't they?
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