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The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors
- TheFrisbeeNinja 4y agoWell researched, but saying "dram" over and over instead of "dee ram" makes my eye twitch.
- bliteben 4y agoOh, 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 4y agoI'm with you on that, written articles > videos any day of the week.
- dylan604 4y agohow many drams of whiskey to make an ounce?
- kken 4y agoHe keeps doing it despite frequent complaints. Troll-marketing?
- nosianu 4y agoAt 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.
- Sakos 4y agoI 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.
- moreati 4y agoI'm a British english speaker, I pronounce it dram. I didn't know there are people who pronounce it D-RAM.
- hmcdona1 4y agoIt's typically pronounced D-RAM I assume because RAM is already it's own common acronym people were/are familiar with. DRAM is just a specific type of RAM, Dynamic RAM, hence D-RAM.
- jaak 4y agoOut of curiosity, would you pronounce S-RAM as sram?
- moosedev 4y agoAnd how about SDRAM?
- stordoff 4y agoI'm also a British English speaker, and I almost always hear "D-RAM". It's been a while since I'm encountered someone using "Dram". On the other hand, I've always said "Prom" instead of "P-ROM" (for programmable ROM). I've never considered why there is a difference.
- nsteel 4y agoI have the same credentials but I've never encountered anyone pronouncing it as dram. Only D-RAM and S-RAM etc. Although the bike brand SRAM is pronounced as sram, which is fun.
- jamiek88 4y agoFourth Brit chiming in to say I’ve only heard ‘dram’ in the context of booze. Dee-ram, essdee-ram etc for random access memory.
- renewiltord 4y agoDramcorp requires you to stay on brand.
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- tester756 4y agoDamn, Asianometry seems to be really informative content
- Bayart 4y agoI've watched his YT channel for a year or so and really came to like it. It's good enough to scratch the hitch about the semi-con industry without getting into industry-specific publications levels of details.
- 7speter 4y agoI 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?
- pydry 4y agoPick a topic you know something about that he talks about. Check him against that. This is how I got into Caspian. I think stringent objectivity is overrated anyhow. Id much rather read something biased and well researched than shallow and objective.
- ekianjo 4y ago> Id much rather read something biased and well researched than shallow and objective. Seems like a poor way to be informed.
- pydry 4y agoDont feel like you have to rationalize your reaction.
- Fordec 4y agoWhich is why I doubt Caspian Report. Anytime he ventures into Western Europe it's either so high level it's basically meaningless (Brexit will change relationships with EU members? You don't say!) or just way off base. Eg. For UK-Newzealand to sign a trade deal, the US decides what happens because... it's geographically between them? I guess assuming the world is flat? I find the same with Peter Zeihan. In depth researched accurate data.. used to construct always wrong predictions. Eg. Alberta to secede from Canada and become the 51st state because oil pipeline infrastructure.
- hourago 4y agoI have watched many of their videos and are great content for techies.
- chasil 4y agoThis 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. https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47727 https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47727 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 4y agoAbout yields in 1980s/1990s. 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai, just attention to detail.
- pjscott 4y agoThank you. I can’t count how many people in those days attributed (for example) Japanese manufacturing success to visibly foreign things like karaoke and radio exercises when the real story was something vastly more interesting about factory management and how you coordinate the efforts of a lot of people to make a good car.
- JJMcJ 4y agoThen there's the pull cord on the Toyota assembly lines. Someone sees something wrong, they reach up, pull the cord, the whole line stops until the issue is resolved. Unlike American lines, where they defective cars would just roll on by. When Toyota and other Japanese makers started building in the USA, surprise, surprise, their cars made here were just as good as the ones from Japan.
- aj7 4y agoI have a single comment. The Fujitsu 1k RAM.
- allenrb 4y agoAnd to be clear, that’s kilobits. 128 bytes.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoThere is a four-part documentary I saw on YouTube that went into much more (fascinating) detail. Part 1: https://youtu.be/ihkRwArnc1k https://youtu.be/ihkRwArnc1k Part 2: https://youtu.be/uGRNXmWng3M https://youtu.be/uGRNXmWng3M Part 3: https://youtu.be/ansXGewduN4 https://youtu.be/ansXGewduN4 Part 4: https://youtu.be/G40YwOg0_B8 https://youtu.be/G40YwOg0_B8