[HN Gopher] The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors
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The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors
Author : picture
Score : 67 points
Date : 2022-07-20 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (asianometry.substack.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (asianometry.substack.com)
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| chasil wrote:
| This seems similar to Taiwan's ITRI (Institute for Technology
| Research Institute) that arranged a technology transfer from RCA,
| to what would become UMC and Mediatek. RCA even sold all their
| patents to UMC.
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| https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47727
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| TSMC did not emerge directly from the RCA exchange, but got even
| better technology from Philips (and this is after the CEO's
| career at Texas Instruments).
| JJMcJ wrote:
| About yields in 1980s/1990s.
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| Friends in semiconductor equipment industry visited clean rooms
| in USA and Japan, and said the Japanese companies were much much
| more concerned with keeping them very clean.
|
| Nothing to do with singing the company song in the morning, or
| liking bonsai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai, just
| attention to detail.
| TheFrisbeeNinja wrote:
| Well researched, but saying "dram" over and over instead of "dee
| ram" makes my eye twitch.
| dylan604 wrote:
| how many drams of whiskey to make an ounce?
| kken wrote:
| He keeps doing it despite frequent complaints. Troll-marketing?
| Sakos wrote:
| I suspect it's just a cultural thing. He lives in Taipei and
| clearly isn't a native speaker. I don't get why people get so
| bent out of shape over something so insignificant.
| nosianu wrote:
| At university, many years ago, one lecturer referred to the
| BUSY pin signal on a chip as the "bus ypsilon" signal.
| English was his third language, as an East German German
| first, then Russian second, so we did not think it was a
| joke, and that was in East Germany only a few years after
| reunification so his English practice probably was lacking at
| the time. I don't think anybody ever corrected him the entire
| semester.
| bliteben wrote:
| Oh, I didn't even watch the video. I guess there does seem to
| be a new breed of blogs that have videos mirroring their
| articles. I am just glad they also have written articles.
| TheFrisbeeNinja wrote:
| I'm with you on that, written articles > videos any day of
| the week.
| hourago wrote:
| I have watched many of their videos and are great content for
| techies.
| tester756 wrote:
| Damn, Asianometry seems to be really informative content
| pygar wrote:
| I've watched a few of his videos and I'm sure a lot of people
| get a lot of value from them but I've stopped watching them
| after noticing they are Wikipedia articles converted into a
| PowerPoint presentation. There is no original research, and I
| can read faster then I can watch a video.
| 7speter wrote:
| I really like the channel's content, but like "The Caspian
| Report" channel, I kinda wonder if everything we're told is
| correct and objective. It's great information if it's all
| verifiable, but who checks the checkers?
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