Japan’s Legendary Semiconductor Breakthrough

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  @georgemaeda2722 · 2 years ago

  This video is outstanding !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   During these years, I was at AT&T Bell Labs working on fiber optical transmission systems.  Not semiconductors, per se.   However, I was plugged into current affairs enough to know that American industry was deeply concerned about advances being made in Japan.   Today, Japan the way it is, that may seem farfetched.  But the 1980s was an entirely different era.  Japan was on a roll with cars, chips, video recorders ... the list is long.   In 1990, no one would have thought that the chip-making champion would become Taiwan.  These days, you have to run just to stay in place !!!  Technology is one huge rat race, for better or for worse.   G. Maeda, Fukuoka, Japan.

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• 9S

  @9SMTM6 · 2 years ago

  It's fascinating how many technologies were actually developed out of fear of a competitor project that never came close to the scale imagined.

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• AM

  @amistrophy · 2 years ago

  Wake up new semiconductor lore just dropped

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• AK

  @akintoye-ilori · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKBUI3p_cs&amp;t=1176">19:36</a>: In 1985 Fujitsu announced it had achieved AGI &nbsp;🤣🤣🤣

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• CL

  @cleanchaos2843 · 2 years ago

  The Japanese back then made really great breakthroughs in technology.

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• GR

  @GripThePlow · 2 years ago

  Wish Japan’s electronics makes a comeback.

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• AE

  @AerialWaviator · 2 years ago

  &quot;It was the exact right thing, at the exact right time&quot; (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKBUI3p_cs&amp;t=1260">21:00</a>)<br>So true, as this literally launched the personal computer era. In 1981 no one was imagining that 1MB memory was just around the corner. This change the whole trajectory of semiconductors by the better part of a decade.

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• TH

  @thedeadbatterydepot · 2 years ago

  That&apos;s why in Back to the Future, Marty says all the best stuff is made in Japan. This explains much, I always wondered how Japan jumped ahead with the smallest radios as a kid.

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• MR

  @MrMysticphantom · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKBUI3p_cs&amp;t=763">12:43</a> ROFL you troll... nicely done

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• ED

  @eddymison3527 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKBUI3p_cs&amp;t=104">1:44</a> The USA&apos;s definition of &quot;liberation&quot; is that a market is open to US products. If the opposite is true, for example, in the US car market, the USA is comfortable practicing a protectionist economy.

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  @TheJagjr4450 · 2 years ago

  Really appreciate all of the research you have done and currently perform in order to bring these. Your cadence and tone are very easy on the ear and easy to pay attention to and comprehend even though some of the material is quite technical.

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  @BeachTypeZaku · 2 years ago

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