How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
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How Optical MEMS Won an Oscar
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Crony Capitalism Built Indonesia's Biggest Business Empire
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The 3-D Transistor Transition
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Reflecting on Asianometry in 2022
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The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems
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The Gallium Nitride Revolutions
191222 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Errata:
7:19: I mean milliampere-hour not milliampere per hour. Thanks Chris for the correction.
7:27: I mean milliampere-hour not milliampere per hour
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Japanese Whisky (& Suntory)
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Taiwan’s Other Semiconductor Giant
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Is America Stealing TSMC?
161222 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Check out my podcast episode with Tim: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tsmc-and-taiwans-semiconductor-industry-all-started/id1648273735
6:00 - Note. I do know the Japan fab will be a joint venture. However, TSMC management noted that is because it is producing a specialty technology.
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AI’s Hardware Problem
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The Fukushima Robots
031222 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In March 2011, the Great East Japan earthquake caused a massive tsunami that disabled the cooling systems of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所).
Without proper cooling, the plant's nuclear fuel melted down and several hydrogen explosions resulted.
The plant's owner TEPCO and the Japanese government have since committed billions of dollars to the site's safe and efficient decommissioning.
To minimize human safety risk, the company has developed and deployed a series of advanced, radiation-hardened robots to perform a variety of critical tasks.
I have wanted to do this topic since the very start of this channel. In this video, let's take a look at the Fukushima Robots.
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The Story of Solar-Grade Silicon
110922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The worldwide solar panel market is growing at about 30% a year - with immense growth coming in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
90 to 95% of those panels are made from solar-grade silicon. I find it fascinating that two of our modern world's most exciting technology sectors - semiconductors and solar - are so dependent on a single simple slice of silicon.
In this video, I want to talk about another kind of silicon wafer. Those used for the solar industry.
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Why Buffett Bought TSMC
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The Perfect Synthetic Diamond
231122 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Errata:
2:25 Typo. Bottom text should say 1880
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Why Pakistan Pumps Too Much Groundwater
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EUV’s Most Difficult Challenge
151122 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. ASML and its partners had to overcome many challenges in order to make EUV lithography a reality.
For instance, in a previous video I talked about the EUV light source and its double-shot technique. But while challenging, that had not been considered one of EUV's dealbreaking issues.
A greater struggle was how to achieve a zero defect rate for the EUV photomask, or reticle. I will use the two terms interchangeably here.
The EUV reticle contains the chip design. Any defects on the reticle larger than a certain size will show up on the printed wafers themselves. So in order for it to work, it must be truly perfect.
In this video, we look at how ASML managed to overcome this ultra-critical aspect of the technology.
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Google's Open Source Hardware Dreams
121122 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Check out the Build Custom Silicon with Google website here: https://developers.google.com/silicon
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How Oil Ate the Soviet Economy
280822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In 1979, the Soviet Union was the world's leading producer of oil, pumping 11.5 million barrels of oil each day.
At the end of our last video on this, the Soviet Union finished the 1960s as the second biggest oil producing nation in the world.
Even so, the country's most plentiful bounties of oil and natural gas were still yet to come, hiding beneath Siberia's frozen swamps and lakes.
In this video, we look at how the Soviet Union became an energy superpower and how that contributed to the country's eventual dissolution.
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The Hard Tradeoffs of Edge AI Hardware
031122 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Errata:
I said in this video that "CPUs and GPUs are not seen as acceptable hardware choices for edge AI solutions". This is not true, as CPUs are commonly used for small, sub-$100 items. And GPUs are frequently used in lieu of FPGAs due to their ease of programming. Thanks to Patron Gavin for his input.
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The History of the Semiconductor Photomask
011122 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. As a fundamental part of the lithography puzzle, the photomask has a fascinating history that goes all the way back to the very beginning.
So in this video, we are going to look at this essential piece of the semiconductor manufacturing process from rubylith to EUV: The photomask.
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Why British Nuclear Energy Failed
140822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The story of nuclear power in the United Kingdom is one of bad economics and missed opportunities.
The British were a nuclear pioneer and their government saw civilian nuclear power as a way to diversify the country's energy mix.
But a series of bad technical decisions took the industry down the wrong path. Things got nasty. In this video we are going to look at why nuclear power melted down - economically - in the United Kingdom.
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The Soviet Oil Juggernaut: How It All Began
251022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. At the start of the 1960s, the Soviet Union was the world's second largest oil producer - trailing only the United States.
By itself, the Soviet Union nearly matched oil production from the entire Middle East. Many European countries depended on Soviet oil, and the Communist Party used that to their own advantage.
In this video, we will look at the beginnings and rise of the titanic Soviet oil apparatus. From its start with the Russian Empire in the late 1880s to its ascendancy after World War II.
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The History of the FPGA: The Ultimate Flex
280323 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. For decades, people have searched for ways to make a chip that you can reprogram after manufacturing. In this video, let us explore the industry’s quest for the ultimate flex.
Credit to John McMaster for the beautiful die shots of the XC2000 - https://siliconpr0n.org
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The Eternal Landlords of the Philippines
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