The NE555 and some interesting information about it. A YouTube short by @Evilmonkeyzdesignz.
2023-08-24 What Goes On Inside A Semi Wafer Fab
Asianometry’s YouTube channel has some of the most interesting and informative videos on semiconductor manufacturing and the history of electronics. He also has a catalog of his videos. Here is one which everyone who owns a smartphone or PC should watch to find out what is inside of their device.
2023-08-12 Moore’s Law Is Dead? – Sabine
Sabine Hossenfelder goes over the history and ways that Moore’s Law may still make progress. Also a few good comments.
2023-08-07 Auto ECM Electronic Repair – A New Business Opportunity
This is a quote from a post in a group about auto ECM – electronic control module – repair. “”Andrew Brown 12h To the young budding electronics techs out there – listen up. This is a potential opportunity for you to build a decent business with pretty dedicated customers. (No involvement on my part.) The
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2023-06-27 The Reasons Behind The Chip Shortage (Sabine)
Very good video about the chip shortage. There were fires in several plants, natural disasters like the earthquake in Fukushima, and too much dependence on only a few factories. We need to prevent this from happening again.
2021-09-28 Qualcomm CEO’s Chip Shortage Opinion
Almost 3 minute video. https://youtu.be/6K_9dQlI5sI
2021-07-08 FTC Stops Broadcomm’s Monopolism
Federal Trade Commission said Broadcomm bullied its customers into exclusive contracts in order to buy Broadcomm chips. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/broadcom-is-a-monopolist-ftc-orders-chipmaker-to-stop-illegal-tactics/?amp=1
2021-02-08 IEEE.ORG Website Is Not Private. Intersil ICL 8038 Function Generator
Chrome won’t allow me to connect to the spectrum.ieee.org website because it’s saying it’s not private. I go to learn more and they don’t have any way to override the error message. I went here first to read the story and tried the link at the end to comment. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/silicon-revolution/decoding-the-innovation-delusion-nurturing-the-maintenance-mindset They asked in an article
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