The Fast and Furious Rise of Korean Semiconductors

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  • @Asianometry
    @Asianometry  Рік тому +13

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    • @DirkPeterson-uh6uu
      @DirkPeterson-uh6uu Рік тому

      This channel seems to show that all best ideas come from west .disappointed

    • @TymexComputing
      @TymexComputing Рік тому

      @@DirkPeterson-uh6uu Well - i think and hope that this channel tries to show the facts. It showed Toshiba trying to popularize semi in europe, maybe it failed but it left much of experience

    • @astbast1966
      @astbast1966 Рік тому

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    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Рік тому

      LG Life is GOOD ! :-)

  • @DaveEtchells
    @DaveEtchells Рік тому +136

    Samsung’s foray into the digital camera market would make an interesting story. They dumped *piles* of money into it, developed the then most-advanced camera image processor on the planet and introduced a camera with autofocus and auto-triggering capabilities far beyond the competition (the NX-1). Then they just pulled the plug.
    The scale of their efforts was amazing. They somehow paid enough money to hire away the principal architect of Canon’s DIGIC processor line, and hired scores of other Japanese camera engineers; they had entire floors of Japanese engineers in the R&D center with accompanying squads of technical interpreters to facilitate communications between the Japanese and Korean engineers. They were set to be serious competition for Canon, Nikon and Sony, but when sales failed to grow as rapidly as they expected, combined with a general downturn in the industry, they pulled the plug practically overnight. I’d love to know more of what went on behind the scenes, but it might be difficult to discover. (OTOH, I do know a guy who could tell the full story if you could convince him to do so :-)

    • @davidcmpeterson
      @davidcmpeterson Рік тому +12

      It is sad the Samsung NX1 never took off and became popular 😞
      Was a very advanced camera for its time! Even by 2023 standards the Samsung NX1 is a damn fine camera

    • @clarkkent7973
      @clarkkent7973 Рік тому +20

      And started putting their image sensor in cell phones which killed most of the mass digital camera market?

    • @DeedoDoop
      @DeedoDoop Рік тому +14

      @@clarkkent7973yeah I believe this is the reason why they pulled the plug. The world was sayin goodbye to the good ol’ traditional camera anyway and Samsung eventually put those cameras into their phones anyway.

    • @DaveEtchells
      @DaveEtchells Рік тому

      @@davidcmpeterson Cameras were already suffering from cell phones, but the bigger impact at the end of the market where the NX1 played was more just that digital interchangeable lens cameras had gotten good enough that people didn’t need to upgrade every 1-2 years. There was also the issue of Samsung being a completely new platform, so there weren’t any enthusiasts who were already invested in the system: The only way they could pick up new users was by convincing people on other platforms to switch. (Or for entirely new users to decide to buy into them vs a more well-known brand.) So they faced an uphill battle.
      It wasn’t so much about them just putting their sensors into their phones, they were entirely different products. That said though, they were probably positioned to earn more from their foundry capacity by fabbing phone sensors vs camera ones.

    • @davidcmpeterson
      @davidcmpeterson Рік тому +5

      @@clarkkent7973 no cellphone camera can match what the Samsung NX1 could do

  • @johnallen6945
    @johnallen6945 Рік тому +169

    I remember in the 50s when I was a little boy. My father was a foreman at a steel company in Warren, Ohio. Many times Japanese businessmen stayed at our home as my father showed them how to make steel. Long story short, the Japanese production of cut-rate steel doomed the US steel industry. Then Korea does the same thing to Japan in high-tech and semi-conductors. And, "the beat goes on."

    • @maxscott3349
      @maxscott3349 Рік тому +9

      Hey, we still make garbage steel here. I've built several buildings out of car doors and folding chairs

    • @everydaydose7779
      @everydaydose7779 Рік тому +8

      Damn homeboy got schooled how to make better steel with radioactive dust infused 😂

    • @ylstorage7085
      @ylstorage7085 Рік тому

      cut-rate steel doomed the US steel industry. On the other hand, cheap steel boomed the US car industry.
      Mexico can't compete with USA on corn, because USA grows corn at a loss.

    • @webjoeking
      @webjoeking Рік тому +4

      Our YT comments are training the AI of future cyborgs.

    • @GGigabiteM
      @GGigabiteM Рік тому +12

      @@everydaydose7779 Steel produced anywhere in the world after July 6th 1945 is slightly radioactive. The medical device industry has bid up scrap steel made prior to 1945 because the radioactivity interferes with sensitive instruments, and the non-irradiated metal is needed.

  • @djhatton
    @djhatton Рік тому +14

    "No matter what it takes, Samsung will enter the semiconductor business, so please deliver the news to the readers of your newspaper" 😳what a quote

  • @Flameboar
    @Flameboar Рік тому +44

    Thank you for an excellent review of the growth of the Korean semiconductor industry. I enjoyed this video because I was very involved in building many Hyundai semiconductor fabs in Korea. I was also involved in the Hyundai Eugene fab. I visited the Hyundai Scottish fab site several times before Hyundai shut down the project. Many of my friends were among those who were laid off by Hyundai Semiconductor.
    One thing that I need to point out to you is that the location of Hyundai Semiconductor is not Incheon, but rather Icheon. Incheon is the location of the major airport which replaced Kimpo as the main Seoul airport. Incheon is located to the west of Seoul. The Hyundai Semiconductor headquarters was in Icheon which is located about 1 hour southeast of Seoul. The city names are close but not identical. Incheon is 인천 仁川 and Icheon is 이천 利川. The Koreans frequently would ask which city that I meant when I spoke of Icheon. I would clarify it as Kyoungkido Icheon which is specific for Icheon since Incheon is a specially designated "Kwanak" city.

    • @acuantjahyadi7393
      @acuantjahyadi7393 Рік тому

      Seorang karyawan Hyundai mengatakan anda pembawa sial 😂

  • @youcantata
    @youcantata Рік тому +61

    I remember rows of young Korean female workers working in Fairchild semiconductor packaging factory in southern port city of Masan, South Korea (free trade zone) in '70s. When Samsung plunged into semicon business in early '80, everyone were very skeptical, including Korean gov't and industry. Now nearly 40 years have passed and I recently visited Pyuntaek, where Samsung is doing their business. I see sea of semiconductor factories endless to horizon, where once was endless rice paddy field. It was perfect example of turning mulberry tree forest into blue sea (Korean proverb, 桑田碧海). Korean and Samsung archived the impossible.

    • @jyy9624
      @jyy9624 Рік тому +2

      It's just fabrics

    • @ZelenoJabko
      @ZelenoJabko Рік тому

      Why is Korean proverb in a Chinese letters?

    • @ZelenoJabko
      @ZelenoJabko Рік тому

      Also turning a beautiful berry forest into blue sea seems like a step backwards. Very weird.

    • @shanewalker3273
      @shanewalker3273 Рік тому +10

      @@ZelenoJabko it's like having latin roots for english words

  • @tdb7992
    @tdb7992 Рік тому +34

    I have a vivid memory of watching the news just as the Asian financial crisis hit, and seeing people in South Korea donating their gold to banks (I guess it was the central bank). I was very young at the time, and we were largely insulated from the AFC here in Australia as our economy was more aligned with other developed economies. It was amazing to see - people giving over their own assets in a bid to help their nation. That footage has stayed with me, decades after the fact.

    • @danielp2399
      @danielp2399 Рік тому +7

      When you see history of Korea, you could find repetitive failure of government and fixing by civilians. When Japanese invaded Korean peninsula 400 years ago, cabinet ran away from capital while guerrilla blocked the supply line of Japanese. The same goes for Mongolian invasion 700 years ago. Civilians of Korea helped government and companies who had enjoyed the high leverage without hedging in 97 Asian financial crisis.
      Someone might call this totalitarianism, other call this patriotism.

    • @ckye736
      @ckye736 8 місяців тому

      Yes I do remember that well. From overseas my Korean parents were sad they couldn’t help. I don’t think the present generation will do that. They are very self-centered and westernized. Sad

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    @saturninagoetter9535 Рік тому +67

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  • @-www.chapters.video-
    @-www.chapters.video- Рік тому +43

    00:02 Introduction and Sponsorship
    02:11 Korea's Entry into Semiconductor Industry
    03:58 Government Support and Investment
    05:01 Samsung's Ambitious Tokyo Declaration
    06:52 Focus on Memory Chips
    09:19 Technology Transfer and Equipment Import
    11:45 Challenges faced by Samsung, Hyundai, and LG in the early days of their semiconductor divisions
    15:11 Favorable economic developments for Korea in the mid-1980s
    16:01 Samsung's success in the semiconductor market and validation of Korean manufacturers
    18:03 Collaborative project and subsidies for the Big Three semiconductor companies
    19:46 LG's partnership with Hitachi to compete in the memory market
    21:03 Korean memory industry at its peak and the challenges of overcapacity
    22:01 Vulnerability of Korean semiconductor companies due to high debt ratios
    23:31 Samsung's focus on consumer items
    24:23 Different situation for LG and Hyundai
    25:17 Government's bailout and reforms
    26:01 Big deals and challenges for LG and Hyundai
    27:34 Birth of Heinix and its struggles
    29:56 Efforts to revive Heinix and its sale to SK Group
    32:43 EU's subsidies case and WTO's decision
    33:42 Government's role in the semiconductor industry

  • @t0xcn253
    @t0xcn253 Рік тому +70

    I cant stress enough how smart these videos make me feel lol. Seriously though, you do such a fantastic job of bringing to life these stories and their, at times abstruse elements, in a way that makes even a poor math student like myself feel engaged and capable of comprehending. Thank you for making this formerly mysterious world visible in such consistently entertaining and informative way!

    • @ryanreedgibson
      @ryanreedgibson Рік тому

      Me too, but don't you DARE tell anyone! LOL

    • @cravinghibiscus7901
      @cravinghibiscus7901 Рік тому

      @@ryanreedgibson Why is this even so embarrasing.?

    • @ryanreedgibson
      @ryanreedgibson Рік тому

      @@cravinghibiscus7901 Because I don't want people to think I'm stupid. That was the joke, haha. I guess I'm dumb and unfunny. LOL.

    • @cravinghibiscus7901
      @cravinghibiscus7901 Рік тому

      @@ryanreedgibson Nono, why is it so embarrassing to feel smart?

    • @ryanreedgibson
      @ryanreedgibson Рік тому

      @@cravinghibiscus7901Never mind. The tone and facetiousness was lost in my writing.

  • @UbermanNullist
    @UbermanNullist Рік тому +14

    Yes. Japan certainly helped South Korea's semiconductor technology, but Japan get helped by U.S. technology in the 1950s and 60s, so U.S. engineers trained Japanese engineers, and that's how it started.
    The claim by some Japanese that Kaoru Takeuchi was a traitor and that he built the Korean semiconductor industry is too much nationalistic thinking. Japan's semiconductor industry collapsed because the U.S. sanctioned Japan's semiconductor monopoly due to failed diplomacy with the U.S, and the second reason is the Japanese government's own mistakes. They did not restructure after the bubble burst, which led to the zombification of major tech companies.

  • @tdkx
    @tdkx Рік тому +6

    Much respect to Samsung, Hynix, and Korea.

  • @Asianometry
    @Asianometry  Рік тому +1

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  • @--ee6dm
    @--ee6dm Рік тому +3

    LG was basically its name from Lucky-Goldstar which was changed from since 1992.
    Because the founder's son name was Koo-Lak Hee.(=Lucky) :D

  • @ninjasiren
    @ninjasiren 6 місяців тому +1

    I have been using either SK Hynix on my previous laptop DDR3L memory, and now with my new laptop using Samsung's DDR5 RAM

  • @bagzhansadvakassov1093
    @bagzhansadvakassov1093 Рік тому +2

    Honestly It is hard to believe Japan having so much industrial capabilities (Canon, Toshiba, Hitachi, Nikon and so on) failed to overtake processor manufscturing market to TSMC.

  • @Pillowcase
    @Pillowcase Рік тому +9

    LG = "lucky goldstar"

    • @abi3751
      @abi3751 Рік тому

      Really? 😮

    • @soobinlee8832
      @soobinlee8832 Рік тому

      @@abi3751 really, yes. Lucky, Inc. (럭키) + Goldstar, Inc. (금성)

    • @abi3751
      @abi3751 Рік тому

      @@soobinlee8832 is LG a merge of 2 companies.?

    • @abi3751
      @abi3751 Рік тому

      @@soobinlee8832 and what about "life's good"

    • @AmeMori35
      @AmeMori35 Місяць тому

      ​@@abi3751Probably too late to reply, but to answer your question; yes, LG is a coalition of two companies. LG has been run by two families Goo and Her. Recently, decades ago though, they separated without any trouble and "Her" side of the family is running a conglomerate named "GS".

  • @brainshrub
    @brainshrub Рік тому +1

    Ug. The ads! I pay for UA-cam red, and this channel used to be one of my favorite because it didn't slather an ad into the content itself.

  • @ReviveHF
    @ReviveHF Рік тому +6

    India : Take notes seriously but losing talents and expertise at a alarming rate at the meantime.

    • @abi3751
      @abi3751 Рік тому

      Yeah, but here we have almost all chip designing companies but not a single manufacturing company, but micron have aannounced they will setup a plant here and a domestic company called vedanta is planning to invest over 20b to make chips in house.

    • @shreyvaghela3963
      @shreyvaghela3963 Рік тому +2

      india should focus on labour-intensive manufacturing. semis come later.

    • @kswltd
      @kswltd Рік тому +5

      @@abi3751 Dude, semiconductor is the epitome of precision manufacturing industry. If India cannot make good cars, phones or refrigerators, how the hell would they make hundred billions of transistors to work on a few inch chips? It's a business where a single dust particle in the chip production line leads to failure. And it is way more complicated and competitive than any other manufacturing industries. Once India gets on top with other industries like car or ship building, that's when India should 'begin' with the semiconductor.

    • @abi3751
      @abi3751 Рік тому

      @@kswltd first of all who told India doesn't make automobiles ? , Mahindra is the world's largest tractor producer and Tata is world's second largest producer of trucks, they produce other vehicles too, .and Your concept about countries which cannot produce cars cannot produce chips are nonsense, Taiwan is the largest manufacter of chips they don't have any global automobile company, and India is the second largest producer of smartphones after china.and india has almost all chip designers here like intel, nvidea samsung, arm, and more and more also India has equipment makers like applied material and lam research, so it's your misconsumption

    • @kswltd
      @kswltd Рік тому +5

      @@abi3751 I never said India doesn't make cars. I said they don't make 'good' cars. Look it up again. Do you know that even countries like Vietnam make cars? Even African countries can make phones and cars if you assemble the components bought from other countries. India's Tata and Mahindra can 'assemble' cars, if that's what you mean.

  • @user-ok2kj8us1u
    @user-ok2kj8us1u Рік тому +1

    Great vid as always. We need an intro to superconductors now with all the craziness with LK-99 going on.

  • @Rhiwwers
    @Rhiwwers Рік тому +1

    'Ey I have a Daewoo microwave that I bought mega cheap in a supermarket a few years ago, that hasn't failed me yet :D Go Daewoo!

  • @tadashiogitsu
    @tadashiogitsu 25 днів тому

    Can you please investigate and release as to how Cray's failure to deliver Cray 3 could lead to ban of GaAs researches in Japan?

  • @dzaki8331
    @dzaki8331 Рік тому +2

    The fast and furious rise of Korean Room Temperature Superconductor (LK99)

  • @tadashiogitsu
    @tadashiogitsu 25 днів тому

    DRAM was affordable for majority. That is the major reason why it was largely adopted by the computer industry. I wonder why/how Toshiba failed in terms of relation to the other factors (politics etc).

  • @Flameboar
    @Flameboar Рік тому +1

    You are making excellent videos. I lived in Korea at several times. My first work in Korea was at Hyundai Semiconduction in Icheon 이천시 利川市. You had it written as "Incheon." where the new airport is located. Many people make this mistake.
    I worked on the construction of Hyundai fabs E1, E2, E3 and R2 in Icheon. I was in the process of starting a business in Korea when the Asian economic crisis arrived. Perfect timing!
    Several years later, I worked in Asan 아산시 牙山市. My company car was a Samsung SM5. It was a good car based on the Nissan Altima.
    Keep up the great work!

  • @Kyzyl_Tuva
    @Kyzyl_Tuva Рік тому +1

    Love your channel. Thank you.

  • @alexanderphilip1809
    @alexanderphilip1809 Рік тому +4

    To think that Fred Terman was also involved in guiding the building of technical human capital base in S.K is just wild. That man was a gem.

  • @dastankuspaev9217
    @dastankuspaev9217 2 місяці тому

    Hynix experienced survival thriller

  • @Hubris21
    @Hubris21 8 місяців тому

    *describes the process of making a burger*
    Me: that don't sound like McDonald's at all!

  • @ZMB-on5ub
    @ZMB-on5ub Рік тому +1

    What are you recording audio with? Running a high pass filter would be fantastic.

  • @jimschiltz5343
    @jimschiltz5343 Рік тому +1

    I hear a lot about lost billions. Ouch

  • @RobertReg1
    @RobertReg1 Рік тому +1

    Great vid!

  • @yujishinohara1uponatime
    @yujishinohara1uponatime Рік тому

    Ah brings back memories, Playstation HQ Akasakamitsuke rolled out the red carpet for Samsung flash memory while woe is me waited in line with clock, sram and psoc.

  • @rabbitwooden2184
    @rabbitwooden2184 Рік тому +1

    Stack beef patties == stacked memory chips.

  • @kimchi_taco
    @kimchi_taco Рік тому +1

    S in Samsung stands for Semiconductor but now Superconductor.

    • @jaeyonglee296
      @jaeyonglee296 9 днів тому

      Sam stands for 3 and sung does star in Korean.
      Samsung stands for three stars.
      The chaebol named his companies as either Samsung or Cheil.
      Cheil stands for the first in Korean.

  • @-_-----
    @-_----- Рік тому

    holy moly that was a wild ride.
    the 'economy' (freakonomy) of Magic Debt really is a subversive thing. Free money, free power.

  • @Gameboygenius
    @Gameboygenius Рік тому +1

    So it took 11 minutes before you mentioned that one word. Even though there were two opportunities to do it before that. I feel like it was a strategic decision to delay mentioning it. :D

  • @KomradZX1989
    @KomradZX1989 Рік тому +2

    You should do a video on Chebols about how and why they started and how they are still able to keep going in the modern world today.

    • @Bomkz
      @Bomkz Рік тому +3

      they did do a video on South Korean chebols iirc. (How the rich ate South Korea)

    • @KomradZX1989
      @KomradZX1989 Рік тому

      @@Bomkz oooh thanks! I didn’t realize. Man I love Asianometry. He is so soooo good. ❤️

    • @Bomkz
      @Bomkz Рік тому

      @@KomradZX1989 no problem!

    • @KevinPatey
      @KevinPatey Рік тому +1

      He could just say "chaebol" over and over again like in this video. To be fair it's one syllable less than "Zaibatsu"

  • @raphipik
    @raphipik Рік тому

    Your channel is awesome!

  • @davidaustin6962
    @davidaustin6962 10 місяців тому +2

    I was the process integration engineer for Hyundai America in Eugene. It was poorly managed, they hired all american engineers but wouldn’t let us in on the real engineering meetings, instead treating us like technicians. Within 24 months most all of us has quit. Yields were bad, which is a death knell for semiconductors, and without us things got worse, the locals soaked Hyundai with outrageous fees... it was a crater of expenses. Clearly this was a company that treated semiconductors like the ship building company it had been... heavy top management who knew little of what it took to be successful in the industry, keep middle management in the dark, and bureaucracy and pride thus preventing the nimbleness needed to fix defects quickly. For a full year they refused to fix an obvious contact conformity issue that was killing Yields because it required a process deviation from what they did in Korea. So disappointing to see that Hyundai plant mothballed still 25 years later.

  • @anthonyhershberger8441
    @anthonyhershberger8441 Рік тому

    i love everything you talk about man keep up the awesome videos

  • @KevinPatey
    @KevinPatey Рік тому +1

    I think he just likes saying the word "chaebol"

  • @nomercynodragonforyou9688
    @nomercynodragonforyou9688 Рік тому

    Great piece, but I kinda wished the ending was a bit longer.

  • @lifeextension9217
    @lifeextension9217 Рік тому +2

    Korea used to be the poorest country in the world, but has now become a developed country. There are world-class cutting-edge companies, world-class military companies, and world-class shipping companies. And soft power is also getting stronger.
    The land is small, the population is small, and there are no resources. It is surrounded by powerful countries such as China, Russia, and Japan. It is a miracle country that grew rapidly under the protection of the United States.
    Too fast growth gave birth to too many bad things.
    A representative example is the birth rate, which is the worst in the world.
    Ultimately, this will destroy the economy and increase taxes.
    Unless south korea unify with North Korea, have no choice but to accept immigrants.
    It will be interesting to see whether Korea, a single ethnic group, will become a multi-ethnic country like the United States or Europe.

  • @rafaelsuarez4709
    @rafaelsuarez4709 Рік тому +2

    @Asianometry I am always delighted by the thoroughness of your research, I enjoy your productions quite a lot. However, I have a small note: You used "megabits" throughout this video when you should have used "megabytes". In short, one megabit represents one million bits, whereas one megabyte represents EIGHT million bits, so they are quite different. Furthermore, megabits is used in data transmission (such as in video streaming), and megabytes is used in data storage (such as in computer memory). Cheers.

  • @robertb6889
    @robertb6889 Рік тому +8

    Irony that Micron kicked off its biggest competitor - Samsung.

  • @butterbee2384
    @butterbee2384 Рік тому +1

    Soon: "the fast and furious rise of Korean SUPERconductors"

  • @hc3d
    @hc3d Рік тому +2

    Very interesting chunky video explaining a lot of the current situation. I suppose the video will be valuable for many years to come, as most of the described events cover large timespans and won't likely change abruptly.

  • @andrewnprice
    @andrewnprice Рік тому +3

    Was this your first non-asianometry sponsor?! Congrats on attracting outside money. I am sure it is not enough, but hopefully it helps to justify all the hard work over time.

  • @firstlast9504
    @firstlast9504 Рік тому

    Really like the pictures of people and places you provide. Plus you hit topics that interest me.
    Thanks!

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou Рік тому

    I still remember that hynix class action lawsuit here in the US. If I remember it was against all of the Korean manufacturers. I still remember my big 14 dollar check from it! 🤣

  • @atanumaulik7093
    @atanumaulik7093 Рік тому +8

    When you have kind uncle called Sam, who is willing to transfer technology and offer unlimited markets, you can rise very fast indeed. That's the story of South Korea. But if you piss off that uncle, then you fall. That will be the story of China this decade.

    • @robertlee5456
      @robertlee5456 Рік тому

      Korean companies willing to pay triple US salaries to poach talent and invest billions into fabrication infrastructure, is not at all a story of Uncle Sam giving tech away.

    • @murderofcrows2179
      @murderofcrows2179 Рік тому +1

      China steals tech, South korea like every other country has to pay for technology. One is illegal and the other legal.

    • @kswltd
      @kswltd Рік тому +1

      Are you so dumb to think that the so-called uncle Sam actually transferred semiconductor tech to South Korea? The unlimited markets was not only open for Korea but also for other countries. The major difference was that other countries could not manage to deliver good semiconductors at a reasonable price, but South Korea did and created the chance. Are you are trying to say the American buyers were forced to buy Korean semiconductors? How could Korean chipmakers, especially Samsung, constantly make the highest quality memory chips even better than the ones made by Intel for such a long period of time? You don't realize you are spitting on your own face, do you? Nobody in the right mind believes the US would have transferred the technology to any country in the world without any cost. People that study history know what the US has done to South American countries. Wake up, buddy.

    • @nomercynodragonforyou9688
      @nomercynodragonforyou9688 Рік тому

      Yup

  • @JakeDownsWuzHere
    @JakeDownsWuzHere Рік тому +1

    such a big fan of your content. please keep it up!

  • @jmir33
    @jmir33 Рік тому +2

    Love the comment "scientifically speaking, Hynix ate a turd sandwich all the way down" 😄

  • @jameshatton4211
    @jameshatton4211 Рік тому +2

    This was an excellent short documentary on Korean Semiconductor industry!
    I have only 2 negatives to mention.
    1. There was some kind of annoying humming sound interference notificable about ¼ way into the clip?
    2. I would love to know the more modern story of Korean Semiconductor industry post 2005? I'm my opinion this is just where things started explode (figuratively speaking) for Korea in the semiconductor space? As in.....you cut to finish just as you reached the most exciting part of the story?
    Hopefully you'll be able to give us the post 2005 to current day success of Korean tech and expand upon what we now see as booming success for Samsung and delve more deeply into mobile phone production industries in Korea and also their complex partnerships with American tech companies like Microsoft as well as the battles between Samsung and Apple with Japanese SHARP getting squished like meat in the sandwiches?
    Thanks again for your very informative and high quality video production, as always

    • @danielp2399
      @danielp2399 Рік тому +4

      I'll answer no.2 instead. There was massive massacre of memory chip companies in 00s and early 10s. For "beat Samsung" Taiwanese and Japanese memory chip makers started chicken game, selling their products as low as possible to squeeze the competitors.
      Samsung didn't bleed a single blood as they had the leading edge of manufacturing capacity.
      Hynix barely survived with massive bleeding sacrificing their stock owners.
      Micron also survived sacrificing their workers using massive "lay-off".
      Angela Merkel thought memory chip business was not profitable and let Quimonda(memory branch of Infeneon) go bankruptcy.
      Taiwanese companies go bankruptcy as lack of cash and technology.
      Elpida, memory chipmaker from Japanese version of "big deal", couldn't survive because of Japanese old school bureaucracy.

    • @jameshatton4211
      @jameshatton4211 Рік тому

      @@danielp2399 Cheers for the info 👍

  • @AuroraLex
    @AuroraLex 11 місяців тому

    Why DRAM in one syllable but SRAM in two?

  • @georgeageorgopoulos
    @georgeageorgopoulos Рік тому

    Your videos cover news & history very interesting! ;))

  • @aresjerry
    @aresjerry Рік тому +3

    Thanks Asianometry

  • @johndavis1465
    @johndavis1465 Рік тому +2

    Do not see the point of tecnology transfers in any industry.

  • @helloworld0609
    @helloworld0609 Рік тому

    The main reason might be that US was busy fighting a chip war with Japan, and ignored Korea chip industry rise.

  • @consciouslasagne354
    @consciouslasagne354 Рік тому

    I still cant believe a deer is schooling me about asia

  • @scottgaillard4668
    @scottgaillard4668 Рік тому

    "But Vitelic's design sucked!" my favorite line.

  • @filthyE
    @filthyE Рік тому +3

    Absolutely love this channel. Thanks so much for the consistent awesome content.

  • @Ben_Franklin_4201
    @Ben_Franklin_4201 Рік тому

    Thanks

  • @NastyDevil137
    @NastyDevil137 Рік тому

    Superconducting cpus next

  • @ytn00b3
    @ytn00b3 Рік тому

    Selling off Hydis was very bad decision

  • @demidrol5660
    @demidrol5660 Рік тому

    turd sandwich is definitely a cutting-edge scientific terminilogy

  • @mgronich948
    @mgronich948 Рік тому +2

    Samsung went into the memory market, quite successfully. But most of its products were sold to China. China is now able to make memory chips. It recently banned Micron from selling memory chip to China. Samsung has a huge inventory of unsold memory chips, and its memory business suffered its first loss in many years. All as a result of chip war between the US and China.

    • @ytn00b3
      @ytn00b3 Рік тому +2

      Actually, China is behind in semiconductor race thanks to Uncle Sam blocked all the machinery

  • @jimsieh2006
    @jimsieh2006 Рік тому +1

    Where is the market?? Once upon of time countries sought US market but no longer. Americans may have(?) consumers the products are made in China. Why would China buy Korean chips if they can make their own?

  • @WilliamTaylor-h4r
    @WilliamTaylor-h4r Рік тому

    The invention of bad kids, I'll hit you boy, in the 70's, all cute babes', then _Bad Kids_ are invented.

  • @ps3301
    @ps3301 Рік тому

    Please do a video on lk99?

  • @JamesHalfHorse
    @JamesHalfHorse Рік тому

    Nice how you slipped into an ad, back out to the story, back in, wrapped it up and back out again neatly.

  • @jamesmorton7881
    @jamesmorton7881 7 місяців тому

    Fasenating details. Military IRAD was shocked, we had to use Japanese DRAM, while Micron bumbled along. NOR flash was the great innovation for military electronics. Funny how FLASH programming is not actually deterministic, Metastable on done bit. Keep on trying. Every generation gets to learn that the metastable state must be considered. Intel walked away from the i960MX, thank god.

  • @JohnnieWalkerGreen
    @JohnnieWalkerGreen Рік тому +7

    Do you plan to cover OTHER parts of ASIA, like Armenia, Cyprus, Maldives, Kyrgyzstan, and Timor-Leste?

    • @DSBrekus
      @DSBrekus Рік тому +3

      lol

    • @cv990a4
      @cv990a4 Рік тому +6

      Cyprus? Geographically West Asia (just), but geopolitically, economically and culturally European. Part of the EU, for one thing.

    • @JohnnieWalkerGreen
      @JohnnieWalkerGreen Рік тому

      The channel description says, "video essays on business, economics, and history. Sometimes about Asia, but not always". So, I look forward to learning about the semiconductor industry in Burkina Faso.

    • @maxscott3349
      @maxscott3349 Рік тому +1

      Has anything ever actually happened in those parts of Asia?

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius Рік тому +2

      @@JohnnieWalkerGreen with a comment like that I was wondering if Burkina Faso by some freak turn of events had semiconductor manufacturing. (No it doesn't.)

  • @rodrigomiranda2432
    @rodrigomiranda2432 Рік тому

    Hey man, I think many of us would love an update on SMIC, SMEE, YMTC and the Chinese industry as a whole. Lots of rumours around.

  • @alice_agogo
    @alice_agogo Рік тому +6

    I'm from PH 🇵🇭 in the early 2000s we exported more semiconductors and components than South Korea 🇰🇷 we were like the 4th biggest tech seller. It's still our biggest forex earner but we've since dropped behind Malaysia

    • @DaveEtchells
      @DaveEtchells Рік тому +1

      Interesting, I hadn’t realized that PH was big in semiconductors. Thanks for the note!

    • @alice_agogo
      @alice_agogo Рік тому +1

      @DaveEtchells I only realized that also very recently watching those graph vids here. I've always known electronics were our biggest exports but I thought they were only parts, etc., our GDP in 2000 was a mere $80 billion smaller than Bill Gates' fortune at that time but only USA 🇺🇸 Japan 🇯🇵 and Taiwan exported more semiconductors than us. In early 90s we had a rotating blackouts for a year yet we exported more tech products than Canada 🇨🇦 or Switzerland. 20 years ago it is said 60% of the DSP chips used in those Nokia and Ericsson phones came from Texas Instruments factories in ph. Texas and Toshiba each still export about $2 billion each from ph. I only know this reading an article about the gov't giving awards for companies that breach the 2 billion mark. this is from country not known for engineering (not bad for a banana republic, eh?).
      fun fact I do not know of a single electronics engineer in person. I know a lot of civil engineers and their salaries start at $300 a month. I know of one person who wanted to become one but their family cant afford the course in college so they became a teacher instead. Sad really. We could achieve more if we had more non civil engineers.

    • @gallasebiyo4427
      @gallasebiyo4427 Рік тому +3

      PH doesn't have fabs that design their own chips... The ones produced in PH are just factories

    • @DaveEtchells
      @DaveEtchells Рік тому

      @@alice_agogo Wow, that’s *amazing*! All the best online-support call centers are in the Philippines (good English, polite, intelligent and pleasant,me with a good work ethic), and I had the sense that some components were made there, but I had no idea of the magnitude 😮

    • @alice_agogo
      @alice_agogo Рік тому

      @@gallasebiyo4427 it's still an important industry earning more than bpo and ofw remittances combined. Our semiconductor industry is still 2 times bigger than Thailand's automotive industry. For a country full of not very smart people it's impressive that we can make those at all.

  • @sunyoon3410
    @sunyoon3410 Рік тому

    No current situation info

  • @JB-gr6om
    @JB-gr6om 11 місяців тому

    LG = Lucky Goldstar 😊

  • @Freak_Gamer
    @Freak_Gamer Рік тому +1

    Gonna be honest, the ad lasted way too long. Should have been at the end of the video

  • @Johnwilliams-th9hq
    @Johnwilliams-th9hq Рік тому

    23:06 (Far left) when i dont have to work on moday because of a massive financial collapse. (I might starve)

  • @qwerasdf-ko3ym
    @qwerasdf-ko3ym Рік тому +1

    its Icheon not Incheon for Hyundai&Hynix two different cities

  • @mihirpatil8713
    @mihirpatil8713 Рік тому

    Interesting that BOE came to be as a result of this

  • @ewerybody
    @ewerybody Рік тому +1

    What's a chaebol?
    Was I missing something? Never heard that in any of your videos :)

    • @UbermanNullist
      @UbermanNullist Рік тому +3

      Giants born from rapid industrialization in Korea. Using the United States as an example, it's similar to the story of Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Ford, the giants that arose during the rapid industrialization of the United States in the 19th century. Every developed country has a similar story.

  • @hansbleuer3346
    @hansbleuer3346 Рік тому

    Exzellente Beschreibung

  • @eugeniustheodidactus8890
    @eugeniustheodidactus8890 Рік тому

    *Wow!*

  • @sdstorm
    @sdstorm Рік тому

    S-ram: correct. Dram: incorrect. Why?

  • @georgeageorgopoulos
    @georgeageorgopoulos Рік тому

    Γεια σου Ασιανομετρη! ;))

  • @AaronSchwarz42
    @AaronSchwarz42 Рік тому

    Interesting history of Samsung & the social, political, economic & national interests that drove the Korean Technological Economic Miracle //

  • @ytn00b3
    @ytn00b3 Рік тому +1

    You forgot to add SK Group took control over Hynix.

  • @forzaazzurri1471
    @forzaazzurri1471 Рік тому +1

    This is who Logan Paul’s friend is, KSI! Korean Semiconductor Industry!

  • @MScotty90
    @MScotty90 Рік тому

    Patrick Bateman been real quiet ever since Sasaki threw down that business card

  • @JoeOvercoat
    @JoeOvercoat Рік тому

    21:48 the three individuals in the foreground appear to be women. The two individuals in the background appear to be men. Progress!

    • @maxscott3349
      @maxscott3349 Рік тому

      Progress towards what exactly? Taking women away from their children so the state can raise them instead?

  • @necronia
    @necronia Рік тому

    This is basically a documentary. This is incredible information

  • @RagerStudios
    @RagerStudios Рік тому

    I just like how the first part of the title is called The Fast and the Furious, idk if it's an intentional pun.

  • @12vscience
    @12vscience Рік тому

    nice

  • @e09271
    @e09271 Рік тому

    🎉

  • @der.Schtefan
    @der.Schtefan Рік тому

    I mean, nowadays nobody can do anything without importing ASML lithography machines anyway.

  • @Chip_in
    @Chip_in Рік тому

    Rip Kobe and Gigi 💜💛

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Рік тому

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @causewaykayak
    @causewaykayak Рік тому

    These guys produce UT content in same way the tec giants make chips. All good quality stuff but surely the work of a sizeable & determined team rather than a star individual ?