Bibliography by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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GlobalFoundries by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
AMD just gave up this risky part of the business amidst the fabless boom. Sound like a wise move. They then fell more and more away from the state of the art, and moved into more niche areas.
TSMC by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
One of the companies that has fabs, which buys machines from companies such as ASML and puts them together in so called "silicon fabs" to make the chips
As the quintessential fabless fab, there is on thing TSMC can never ever do: sell their own design! It must forever remain a fab-only company, that will never compete with its customers. This is highlighted e.g. at youtu.be/TRZqE6H-dww?t=936 from Video "How Nvidia Won Graphics Cards by Asianometry (2021)".
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How Taiwan Created TSMC by Asianometry (2020)
Source. Some points:
  • UCM failed because it focused too much on the internal market, and was shielded from external competition, so it didn't become world leading
  • one of TSMC's great advances was the fabless business model approach.
  • they managed to do large technology transfers from the West to kickstart things off
  • one of their main victories was investing early in CMOS, before it became huge, and winning that market
Alibaba Cloud by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Atomic clock by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
How an atomic clock works, and its use in the global positioning system (GPS) by EngineerGuy (2012)
Source. Shows how conceptually an atomic clock is based on a feedback loop of two hyperfine structure states of caesium atoms (non-radioactive caesium-133 as clarified by the Wikipedia page). Like a quartz clock, it also relies on the piezoelectricity of quartz, but unlike the quartz clock, the quartz is not shaped like a tuning fork, and has a much larger resonating frequency of about 7 MHz. The feedback is completed by producing photons that resonate at the right frequency to excite the caesium.
Video 2.
Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock by CuriousMarc (2020)
Source.
A similar model was used in the Hafele-Keating experiment to test special relativity on two planes flying in opposite directions. Miniaturization was key.
Contains a disposable tube with 6g of Caesium. You boil it, so when it runs out, you change the tube, 40k USD. Their tube is made by Agilent Technologies, so a replacement since that opened in 1999, and the original machine is from the 60s.
Detection is done with an electron multiplier.
youtu.be/eOti3kKWX-c?t=1166 They compare it with their 100 dollar GPS disciplined oscillator, since GPS satellites have atomic clocks in them.
Video 3. Source. Their super accurate setup first does laser cooling on the caesium atoms.
Sandy Lerner by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This chick is hardcore.
CERN experiment by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
FreeBSD by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Black-body radiation experiment by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Black-body Radiation Experiment by sciencesolution (2008)
Source. A modern version of the experiment with a PASCO scientific EX-9920 setup.
yEnc by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Allen Wu by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This situation is the most bizarre thing ever. The dude was fired in 2020, but he refused to be fired, and because he has the company seal, they can't fire him. He is still going to the office as of 2022. It makes one wonder what are the true political causes for this situation. A big warning sign to all companies tring to setup joint ventures in China!
Video 1.
ARM Fired ARM China’s CEO But He Won’t Go by Asianometry (2021)
Source.
Animal flight by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
New York University by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Stanford University by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The other major university in the Bay Area (and basically in California itself) besides a few University of California places.
The heart of Silicon Valley.
Manhattan Project by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Historic, unique Manhattan Project footage from Los Alamos by Los Alamos National Lab
. Source.
Mostly the daily life part of things, but very good, includes subtitles explaining the people and places shown.
Marked with identifier "LA-UR 11-4449".
Amazon Prime Video by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
As of 2021, Ciro Santilli feels strongly that Amazon originals are so much sillier compared to Netflix ones in average.
Of course, everything pales in comparison to The Criterion Collection.

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