Comments by "shazmosushi" (@shazmosushi) on "Looking Back At Broadcom Trying to Buy Qualcomm" video.

  1. It's kind of interesting how over the decades "Silicon Valley" has lost all its high-end silicon fabrication capacity to South Korea (Samsung) and Taiwan (TSMC), with some non-bleeding edge fabrication capacity still in the US (from Intel, GloFlo and others, mostly outside of California). Now the companies that dominate "Silicon Valley" are software companies (mostly advertising technology companies like Google and Facebook), with some fabless semiconductor firms (like Qualcomm) remaining in California. Some say it's America naturally moving up the value chain (software has much better economics than hardware), but it's clear there are worthwhile profit margins to being the leader in high-volume advanced manufacturing industries like semiconductor fabrication.
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  2. ​ @Asianometry  I would have thought the United States would be willing and able to retain high margin manufacturing like building Boeing fuselages (and their General Electric jet engines), SpaceX rockets, Intel chips and cars. It's a good sign that the TSMC and Samsung are building leading edge factories to the United States (though outside of California). Analysis of those decisions might be a good video idea by the way. Your semiconductor fab videos tend to do very well.
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  3. ​ @Asianometry  I actually think your Formosan salmon will do pretty well, especially with the recent hockey stick growth of your channel you'll gain about 1,000 views on it no problem. It's entertaining content that melds scientific and historical information while being high-information density, just like your Ractopamine pork additive video. It's your coffee cup competition video that won't be a hit
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