The US Military's Semiconductor Buying Problem

[@Asianometry]

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[@GardenerEarthGuy]

I think ball bearings are purchased from China... They aren't made in The States any longer.

[@Obscurai]

Custodial chain security is but a small part of the problem. Every chip based system relies on firmware and software to function, and those components must also be certified and secured. A chip is installed only once, but the software to run them is updated hundreds of times during its lifetime. The next update could also contain a Trojan or backdoor.

[@leyasep5919]

already subscribed. I love silicon prOn so much I went to uni to study ASIC design 20 years ago :-)

[@Molybed1]

Very, very nice video. Speaking of the military, I recommend you do a video about the "Three Heavies" (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries aka Subaru) and their very important relationship with Boeing. I don't hear many people talking about that.

[@capmidnite]

Ah, Mitsubishi. The fabled Japanese zaibatsu which helped build and arm Japan from the Meiji Era to the modern era.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

The transfer of rocket guidance system to China which was approved by the Bush Administration was the topic of the Cox Report (May 1999) which eventually marked the end of US China aerospace cooperation/ tech transfer....the Cox Report argued that it was not in the USA best interest for China/PRC to acquire Satellite/Rocket guidance technology one of the first consequence to the Cox Report was the USA insisting that China be banned from the International Space Station ... which is the reason that China now is building its own space station.

[@billbockman]

In grad school I read, "Defense Conversion," by Jaques Gansler. He was always a proponent of the Japanese approach of "spinning on," commercial technology to lower costs. He cited the example of the Type 90 main battle tank being built on the same line as forklifts.

[@nikolapetrovic1073]

Pls pls pls can you shere link of that video

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

German companies own companies tied to our defense as well.

[@wrong1029]

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[@ethan12313]

Isn't it great!! So happy I found this channel

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

The history of Micro Chips started in Texas. here is a little history. In 1954, Texas Instruments designed and manufactured the first transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 used germanium transistors, as silicon transistors were much more expensive at the time. This was an effort by Haggerty to increase market demand for transistors. Jack Kilby, an employee at TI's Central Research Labs, invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, and successfully demonstrated the world's first working integrated circuit on September 12, 1958. Six months later, Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor (who went on to co-found Intel) independently developed the integrated circuit with integrated interconnect, and is also considered an inventor of the integrated circuit. In 1969, Kilby was awarded the National Medal of Science, and in 1982 he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. Kilby also won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.Noyce's chip, made at Fairchild, was made of silicon, while Kilby's chip was made of germanium. In 2008, TI named its new development laboratory "Kilby Labs" after Jack Kilby. In 2011, Intel, Samsung, LG, ST-Ericsson, Huawei's HiSilicon Technologies subsidiary, Via Telecom, and three other undisclosed chipmakers licensed the C2C link specification developed by Arteris Inc. and Texas Instruments. Microprocessor Texas Instruments invented the hand-held calculator (a prototype called "Cal Tech") in 1967 and the single-chip microcomputer in 1971, was assigned the first patent on a single-chip microprocessor (invented by Gary Boone) on September 4, 1973.This was disputed by Gilbert Hyatt, formerly of the Micro Computer Company, in August 1990, when he was awarded a patent superseding TI's. This was overturned on June 19, 1996, in favor of TI (note: Intel is usually given credit with Texas Instruments for the almost-simultaneous invention of the microprocessor). Defense electronics TI operated this Convair 240 on experimental work in the 1980s fitted with a modified extended nose section. TI entered the defense electronics market in 1942 with submarine detection equipment, based on the seismic exploration technology previously developed for the oil industry. The division responsible for these products was known at different times as the Laboratory & Manufacturing Division, the Apparatus Division, the Equipment Group, and the Defense Systems & Electronics Group (DSEG). During the early 1980s, TI instituted a quality program which included Juran training, as well as promoting statistical process control, Taguchi methods, and Design for Six Sigma. In the late '80s, the company, along with Eastman Kodak and Allied Signal, began involvement with Motorola, institutionalizing Motorola's Six Sigma methodology. Motorola, which originally developed the Six Sigma methodology, began this work in 1982. In 1992, the DSEG division of Texas Instruments' quality-improvement efforts were rewarded by winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for manufacturing. Infrared and radar systems TI developed the AAA-4 infrared search and track in the late '50s and early '60s for the F-4B Phantom for passive scanning of jet-engine emissions, but it possessed limited capabilities and was eliminated on F-4Ds and later models. In 1956, TI began research on infrared technology that led to several line scanner contracts and with the addition of a second scan mirror the invention of the first forward looking infrared (FLIR) in 1963 with production beginning in 1966. In 1972, TI invented the common module FLIR concept, greatly reducing cost and allowing reuse of common components. TI went on to produce side-looking radar systems, the first terrain-following radar and surveillance radar systems for both the military and FAA. TI demonstrated the first solid-state radar called Molecular Electronics for Radar Applications. In 1976, TI developed a microwave landing system prototype. In 1984, TI developed the first inverse synthetic aperture radar. The first single-chip gallium arsenide radar module was developed. In 1991, the military microwave integrated circuit[50] program was initiated - a joint effort with Raytheon.

[@aceofhearts573]

TMS34010 TI also made that. It is an amazing chip

[@alexscarbro796]

One significant issue is ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). If a design house or fab receives any input from the US government on what an IC does, how it does it or any additional specification requirements, it risks being “polluted” by ITAR and then becomes an export controlled device. That then makes sale of that device to third parties extremely difficult. No wonder the semiconductor fabs steer clear of US DoD! Whilst the US government requires a long lifecycle for the devices they buy (holding the fabs back), they also pile lots of money in to develop the highest performance and most integrated parts available…..they’re just not very good at sharing :-)

[@scottfranco1962]

A final vulnerability: Reverse engineering chips is an industry, and a highly automated one to boot. Shops take the chips, depackage them, then put them in etch baths and take progressive digital images as the layers come off, then use software to reverse the circuitry. And we'll call it "scotts law", you can create an RE shop for a fraction of the expense of creating a fab. There is a whole section of Silicon Valley devoted to just that.

[@bunyu6237]

I kinda know that chip can be reverse engineered, but isn't it too much trouble especially for current chip size 5nm? Isn't the number of transistors kinda massive? I can understand if it is very only reverse engineer older chips. Do you know company that does this? I want to read more

[@scottfranco1962]

@@bunyu6237 I think others would supply better info than I on this subject, since I haven't been in the IC industry for decades, back in the late 1980's. At that time, the industry (reverse engineering) was moving from hand reversing to fully automated reversing. However, if you don't mind speculation, I would say there is no concrete reason why the reversing industry would not have kept up with newer geometries. The only real change would have been that its basically not possible to manually reverse these chips anymore. I personally worked on reversing a chip at about 4 generations beyond the Z80, which was not that much. At that time, blowing up a chip to the size of a ping-pong table was enough to allow you to see and reverse engineer individual transistors and connections. Having said that, I have very mixed feelings about the entire process. I don't feel it is right to go about copying others designs. I was told at the time that the purpose was to ensure compatibility, but the company later changed their story. On the plus side, it was an amazing way for me to get onboard the IC industry. There is nothing like reverse engineering a chip to give you a deep understanding of it. However, I would say I think I would refuse to do it today, or at least try to steer towards another job. For anyone who cares about why I have a relationship to any of this, I used to try and stay with equal parts of software and hardware. This was always a difficult proposition, and it became easier and more rewarding financially to stay on the software side only, which is that I do today. However, my brush with the IC industry made a huge impression on me, and still shapes a lot of what I do. For example, a lot of my work deals with SOCs, and I am part of a subset of software developers who understand SOC software design.

[@scottfranco1962]

I feel like I should wrap this subject with an opine on reverse engineering (RE) in general. IMHO this tends to be a glint in the eye mainly of incompetent engineers and managers who like the idea of cutting engineers out of the process. Engineers are troublesome little critters who bitch a lot and eventually discover the joys of sex and the consequent burdens of children. I have always found that it is easier to create software/hardware designs from scratch than to copy the work of others, since REing others work makes it harder and also because the state of software design today is typically crappy, poorly documented code. I often do scratch designs even when given others' source code. REing a chip just gives you a fat binder of schematics (probably a lot of fat binders nowadays). It does not give you the design of the chip, and the design processes of the chip are farther than ever from the schematic thanks to the size of the designs and the fact most of it is done in Verilog. I'm willing to bet most RE today is done by silicon makers wanting to figure out how that new stacked DRAM cell works.

[@bunyu6237]

@@scottfranco1962 Hi thanks for your lengthy answes, I think perspective from experienced engineer is always appreciated. Regarding RE, I just ask around reddit, and I found that the industry is alive. According to them there are two types of RE, the first one is looking at the transistors trying to figure out how the original schematics look like, searching for vulnerabilities for hardware hacking, the second is reverse engineering to determine how much is the production cost of a particular chip, by determining the process node, complexity, etc, etc. Like the company TechInsights. Mostly for hardware hacking a lot of it is on older chips, because there is some time to discover vulnerability. Anyway reading your comments I have a question as I work in similar industry, why do you think it is more profitable to err on the fully software side, and what makes you realize that?

[@scottfranco1962]

@@bunyu6237 A couple of reasons (better software than hardware). First of all, there is a larger group of people working on software than hardware, so the jobs are more plentiful and the demand greater. Second, hardware/software crossover people are considered odd birds, and when I used to do that I had people literally telling me to "pick a side", go one way or the other. I find it easier to get and do software projects, and the pay is better. I dabbled in Verilog long after I stopped being paid for hardware design, and I realized it would take a lot of work to get a foothold in good Verilog design with virtually no corresponding increase in salary, and more likely a decrease for a while during the time I gain credibility as a Verilog designer. The last time I was paid to design hardware it was still schematic entry (and yes, in case you haven't figured that out, I am indeed that old). Of course, a lot of this is my personal situation. I am not sure any of the above would serve as career advice. I definitely consider my hardware background to be a career asset, since specialize low level software design (drivers, embedded, etc). Having said that, I keep up with hardware advances and have often dreamed of uniting my Verilog experience with software experience. That dream is unrealized.

[@keitatsutsumi]

“Value of trust” damn asking the deep questions

[@gj1234567899999]

I don’t think trust is the main concern so much as availability. It’s like if in WWII the UK decided to outsource its aircraft engine manufacturing to Germany because their products were cheaper and better. Maybe they would have been, but it would have been foolish in war. Germany would not have kept supplying Britain the aircraft engines used to fight Germany.

[@andrewallen9993]

That's why the Luftwaffe stopped buying engines from Rolls Royce despite them being better than anything made in Germany.

[@shazmosushi]

10:26 Australia is the 51st state

[@AmericanMinutemen]

John, I enjoy your informative video presentations very much. Thank you.

[@liblobnobwagarer5969]

Hey man you've gave me great info interms of why asia is the hotspot of manufacturing the chips

[@llee4225]

I had worked in the military industry. The video focus on integrity of supply chain and military specific needs. However the design and production cycle is very long like 10 years each so by the time the design is completed it is not state of art. By production start, high end electronic may have stop production. The way they get around this it to stockpile end of life components for 10-30 years for production and maintenance and also do mid-life upgrade of electronics.

[@patrick247two]

Bringing semiconductor design and manufacturing in house would blow out the military budget. Two 'Health Care For All' packages, and one 'Green New Deal' worth of budget.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

Thank you for your youtube video. I would like to add...DOD also has Military Standard Integrated Circuits which are ruggedized... During Desert Storm Military Std laptops were issued to deal with the heat and the desert sand. IIRC the 1990s, a Chinese immigrant woman was caught trying bypass the ban on exporting USA military grade temperature harden CPUs chips to China's meteorological research group (this kind of cpu survives extreme cold and heat and is useful for making satellites and hi altitude electronics) so they are manufactured to different standards than commercial grade electronics. .. USA Dual Use Technology export ban to China has been expanded since then to include high end consumer grade CPUs in 2015.... both cases/situation go beyond the matter of trust in the supply chain that is demonstrated in the 5G Huawei case... Economy of scales and the government reliance on the private sector to maintain such manufacturing resources has been challenging if not a continual and on going concern.... I am expecting the competition between the US-China to intensifies AND with this adversarial trend the USA dual use export ban will expand to include raw materials like lithium or biological/medical supplies

[@watchthe1369]

10 year contract had be giggling insanely. Specialty discrete and custom made chips are a niche market and I know there are chips costing tens of thousands of dollars apiece. Wonder why stealth fighters cost several body parts, THAT is why.

[@jacobdeangelis7702]

1 Correction the Burlington Fab is still owned by GF only the Fishkill fab was sold to ON Semi

[@punditgi]

Excellent summary. Many thanks for the info. 👍

[@Evan_Rodgers]

TSMCs first primary customer of their AZ fab lines will be the US defense industry.

[@Blingchachink]

Thank you Asian brother

[@DB-xx6gq]

There was a great graphic about 30 years ago. (NY times?l showing the number of airplane sorties necessary to hit a single Target starting with world war II. The number of sorties dropped dramatically as the semiconductor content increased. It ended up showing one sortie dropping one bomb to hit one target with smart bomb technology. This is one simple example of why the military needs lots of semiconductors. Other countries understand why this technology is so important. American companies are too concerned with quarterly profits for shareholders. The US is now in the process of laying off all the senior workers in the semiconductor fabs because they cost too much to retain. Thus lowering profits for shareholders. The strategic decision making of foreign countries subsidizing their semiconductor industries will always beet American companies with their short-sighted goals.

[@asdkant]

I can hear noise in the video, you may want to check that. Some basic denoise should suffice, like audacity's one (it takes a silence sample and uses it as reference to know what's the "room noise")

[@m2heavyindustries378]

You mean his voice? Jokes aside honestly it's not noticeable even after you bring it up

[@alejandrobolanos4655]

Costa Rican reporting in!

[@tedchandran]

TMSC will put into the National Security asset list.

[@questworldmatrix]

So it's going to be the next Alstrom.

[@fannyalbi9040]

@@questworldmatrix How far alstrom goes after being owned by united snake?

[@fatdoi003]

US doesn't own that company

[@tobuslieven]

I'd love to see how you make a video. Your approach to research would be fascinating. Love your vids, cheers!

[@e2rqey]

Excellent video. Thanks for this.

[@12vscience]

Good points.

[@valopf7866]

Once again very informative video!

[@javidturabor]

Can u make video about texas instruments?

[@karamany9870]

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[@harrickvharrick3957]

This is a very funny story, I've had a good laugh from it! A military chip that travels 15 countries, haha..! BTW, wouldn't they (prefer to) buy any chip through a shell company instead of making it clear it would be meant to be used in military applications? And in fact I would think that would go for any component they need to source from abroad. However that may be, this is the best channel I know!

[@petergerdes1094]

Also FPGAs offer other benefits. With fewer dedicated hardware it's harder to embed circuits to allow sabotage or extraction of information as you don't know what the final use will be. Also the uniformity probably makes it easier to verify.

[@Aermydach]

5:25 lol That single component is more well travelled and has been to more countries than I have!

[@khhnator]

most of the things you eat nowadays have traveled more than you

[@Aermydach]

@@khhnator That is true and very, very sad.

[@DaveCBwfc]

Global Foundries still owns Fab9 in Burlington.

[@ktm8848]

thank you

[@josuad6890]

back in the days, when cutting edge warships are still made out of wood, we already faced this problem. back then, wood suitable for a mast were incredibly hard to find. Ideally, you'd want a single very large, straight, strong, and tall tree, in one piece to make a mast. Well, you can also bind some wood plank together with iron rings, but that's not the ideal solution and is inferior compared to single piece mast at the time. So countries scramble and went to war for a forest that has those kind of trees, or buy from others for such tree. Problem is, say country A is trading that wood with country B. Then country A, for whatever reason, went to war with country C. If country B is country C's friend, they could cut your trade route, which resulting you can't build new ships with a quality level you'd want. In other word, your military industry got chocked because there's no supply. That's what trust is. It's basically knowing that in the case that the situation is fucked, we still can keep going. But sadly, that's not gonna happen anytime soon. With the current state of how entangled the world is between each other, getting all your parts made by "trusted" source is not going to be easy. If one of said source fucked up or modify some truth to win contracts, an entire production line might grind to a halt.

[@e1nste1in]

Nicely researched!

[@billbockman]

Are you familiar with the book, "The Japan That Can Say No"? In that book Sony Chairman Akio Morita and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara argued Japan should sell the chip the U.S. needed for its MRV warheads to the Soviets if the US didn't back off on trade issues. The U.S. has had its industry hollowed out for at least three decades now. You do a great job of explaining the vulnerability and reviewing the DARPA Trusted Foundries Response. Because military programs are so slow to develop and have exotic requirements such as radiation hardening is it such a problem that some chips are sourced from 150mm plants with 65nm processes? Does the software these chips run really require 4nm or whatever the state of the art is out of TSMC?

[@brujua7]

Very instersting topic. Thanks for the video.

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

the US government started spending money on "interchangeable parts" for firearms around 1800. They got interchangeable parts for firearms close to 1900, and for a long time everybody else did not even understand why is that something desirable. Do not underestimate bureaucrats with a mission ;-)

[@8platypus]

Ohhh jeezzz, it looks like outsourcing finally caught up with American business.

[@larryteslaspacexboringlawr739]

thank you and posted to reddit

[@ricardokowalski1579]

11:00 mantaining node sizes that are no longer consumer commercial + adding compliance expenses + low volume compared to consumer markets.... madness

[@emilraji4769]

Incredible video

[@odaialzrigat]

Amazing video

[@AshishKumar-qe4hq]

can you make video on acquisition of kuka robotics connected with timo boll table tennis, an attempt to buy boston dynamics and uk semiconductor factory

[@rcmrcm3370]

SAE has issued several standards just on managing counterfeit parts for aircraft, zero day bug on Airbus or Boeing avionics would be ciatastrophic.

[@DJ_Force]

Great video

[@tringuyen7519]

Trust is also a failure rate problem. And it concerns not just the military but also the automotive and aerospace industry. An iPhone can take a failure rate of 1ppm. You just replace the iPhone with a newer model! 1ppm may not be good for a fighter jet, a car, or a commercial airplane.

[@jamesmorton7881]

Military sales are so small. they do not shape commercial production volume at all. Forget about product life time. Mil life is in decades not months.

[@FVSurano]

Hi, very interesting! Are you on nebula or curiosity stream or any of those alternative platform? thanks!

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

The European Coal and Steel Community, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community, was founded in the years after WWII, and formally established in 1951. It made the economies of Germany and France dependent upon each other. The aim was to put an end to the thousand-year-old Battle of the North European Plain, of which the 1914-1945 dust-up was the latest chapter. It seems to me the Pacific could use the same idea. The sooner the United States is dependent upon East Asian electronics and the Chinese upon American soybeans, the safer the rest of us will all be. (Note that I've left Japan out of the soybean dependence. Japan depended upon the United States for soybeans, in those days used mainly for tofu, not for fattening beef and pork. Then in 1972, Kissinger threw a hissy-fit over some Japanese political move and mumbled about cutting off their supply. Mitsubishi Shoji founded the Brazilian soybean industry that very afternoon. These things matter.)

[@nickl5658]

The US and China are heavily dependent on each other, and all it took for this economic interdependence to fall apart is for a fool to take power and command an attack. And what the US did under Trump seriously caused China to reevaluate its food dependence on the US. How can you form an interdependence if one side is so illiterate, he can flit out at any moment. Sure the US buys a lot of stuff from China. But China buys a lot of services from the US... which Trump never counted. And a lot of sales in China goes to US companies, also not counted by Trump. Just needed a fool at the wheel and the whole webs falls apart.

[@موسى_7]

@@nickl5658 Does America have such ignorant leaders who are disconnected from the world because the Republican Party is mostly suburban people who are disconnected from the reality of civilisation? Suburban people are kind of disconnected from society and even from industry. Nevermind. Trump is from NYC.

[@allentchang]

From this perspective, you can see the danger of China trying to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency. This actually increases the risk of war.

[@anthonymarquez2542]

@@allentchang It cannot be helped and they should not assume that the west will ever seek peace with them in good faith.

[@illuminated2438]

God bless The great President Trump. I hope all you sufferers of Trump derangement syndrome are prepared for his second reelection in 2024. And for the Republican landslides of 2022. The party of domestic terrorism, a.k.a. the democratic party, is full of children, thieves, and the ignorant.

[@K1VV1939]

The United if you can get that far States only uses 15% of chips.

[@dom1310df]

It's awful getting sent nuclear weapon fuzes by mistake. You can't just pop them in the post to return them. A G-man has to come pick them up.

[@1989TS..]

I love chips too BBQ chips are the best

[@QASIMARA]

"Get to the next level... insanely hard..." omg I'm stressing rn so bad wtf

[@yogamorning2185]

Thanks for sharing. Awesome video. You are killing it with the jokes. Keep up the great work.

[@אסףבר-ע8ד]

Episode on Australia influence in Asia

[@xpynuker]

More like Asia's influence on Australia

[@tonydoggett7627]

Australia’s approval of direction is very respected in Asia, New Zealand & Oceania.

[@jennychuang808]

@@xpynuker Yes, No 1 is bubble tea

[@Starship737]

Australia is asian land illegally occupied by British.

[@xpynuker]

@@Starship737 why is it Asian land?

[@luizcastro7039]

Valeu!

[@non-human3072]

6:20 how times have changed from the 60's

[@scottfranco1962]

Going to be a party when you cross 100k!

[@a_pullin]

I mean, I believe it is understood that Intel bought Altera entirely for their telecom and military contracts, and largely has withdrawn the company's product lines from the consumer markets.

[@hadilee685]

Excellent report. In this highly intermingling connected world where openness is common norms, laying foundation on the underlying motive of having military superiority is shaky and unsustainable. While military force is needed, paying too much attention and putting too much efforts in it, while neglecting other efforts that will reduce needs of superior military, is pointless.

[@stevengill1736]

Happens to me all the time with my Amazon packages too, except I get random experimental NSA monitoring programs. ;*p

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

Ivy league MBAs have done a tremendous amount of damage to this country

[@aceofhearts573]

Why?

[@amusedobserver6134]

Not quite. A diffrent group is responsible for this. I can't talk about them, of course, since YT would just censor my comment.

[@richardj163]

This was a no brainer decades ago…

[@lil----lil]

America's Defense budget is more than the next 10 countries combined....so what's the problem??! U want Trust, Cutting Edge, Supply Chain...blah.blah..spend some of that sweet loot! Coming off the 20 years and 2 Trillion dollars war from Afghanistan pretty sure that will be chump change! You can do it! USA! USA!

[@IpSyCo]

I mean so far $100 billion has been made for the semiconductor industry so I think they’re already a step ahead of you.

[@sparty837]

You must have never visited a modern fab, there is very few people in a modern fab, it is all automated because people bring dirt in. The big problem is it takes over 6 yrs to get the necessary EPA approvals in the US.

[@Apocalymon]

I remember hearing a TSMC employee say that 95% of the tasks are now automated. Comparing old footages of fabs decades ago with current ones makes me giddy & fills me with awe.

[@anthonymarquez2542]

Lol people love saying shit about the EPA as if TSMC or other fabs don’t have meet similar standards in their respective locales

[@DavidHalko]

@@anthonymarquez2542- some traitor drops off a two headed worm to be discovered & ends the building of some critical infrastructure. 100% renewable hydrogen production facilities were killed by crazy investigations. They have a bad rap because they partner with traitors whose purpose it is to place Americans at risk by subjecting them to foreign influence & control.

[@bandygamy5898]

Awesome channel though

[@TheDarkestStar1]

If you replace your understanding of "chips" to the British one. The opening is hilarious.

[@chitcoin]

🎉🎉🎉

[@larry785]

Exactly why my basement is full of American made electronic components!

[@RangKlos]

imagine spending that amount of budget and efforts on peace...

[@AntonioFerreira-mx1er]

There is not really a problem. Military contracts with equipment producers dont include the obligation of the producer to keep the parts available for the duration of the equipment, calling the army has the one who has the work of fiding parts is a red flag on an all set of other issues. Its more a design problem to keep certain producers with a higher profit margin. The US military does not produce carburators yet the producers keep suplying them due to older contracts and despite most being discontinued. An example is that in the civil market older products have parts produced and newer products only have them for 2-5 years (car industry is a good example). Elevators use chips (for more than half a century) and no one ever saw one being totally replaced due to chip shortage , yet alone a mechanical elevator, were there are still those that work without even steel bearings. It would be a disaster if the floppy disc readers from the 80`s were not still being suplied to critical branches of the army, yet there is not an issue there The issue of part shortage is a coorporate finantial issue were most of the time all parts are only intetested in their own gains (we can call it corruption). Another good example is the aviation industry, many airliners (mostly public) sent maintenance to countries like Brasil only to find after a few years that the money losses around faulty parts and bad practices outwheigted the promissed gains (along the way many managers got rich and many airliners wet into backrrucy - mostly due to 2019 crisis- )

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

It takes a village? A village? It takes a Freaking EMPIRE to grow a quality chip.

[@FeelR4nge]

Interesting you bring up American Nationalism for Semiconductors, I've always felt your videos have had a pro Southeast Asia vibe to them.

[@karamany9870]

how important are electronics in weapons?

[@LaughingOrange]

Most skilled pilots can't fly a modern fighter jet without the electronics stabilizing the plane. The airodynamic stability is just too bad, because the shape favours sharp turns.

[@Shrouded_reaper]

Absolutely critical yes lol

[@jasonligo895]

Mind boggling how billions of transistors and their pathways are designed and placed onto a surface smaller than a thumbnail. I wonder how they are designed?

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

IBM was bought by Chinese owned, Lenovo.

[@DavidHalko]

Just some computer divisions were sold

[@chidambaranathans1975]

You should definitely make a video on Shakti it's a open source initiative where unlike intel or arm where architecture ( ex:- x60) is proprietary . Shakti uses an open source architecture of risc v . It's an interesting topic . I am not sure about current stage on development but some 1-2 yrs ago 2 chips where fabbed one by intel (22nm) and other by India's own fab unit (180nm) . Intresting project

[@lingeng2659]

absolute security is not practical. trade offs have to be made including the military budget size.

[@devnull6629]

4:49 😄😄😄

[@lilmsgs]

"gone away"

[@_ata_3]

10:30 Is Alaska melting or why it has that weird shape on the map? 😂

[@lashlarue7924]

I am currently eating a bag of 10nm potato chips while watching this video. 🥔 Take that, Intel!

[@johngordon1175]

Sky water sounds like the sort of company as black water! I

[@Zmantime]

One day the critical dimension of a chip Will come to its technological end. We will need a whole new technology just like vacuum tubes to integrated circuit

[@ThoughtsEtcEtcEtc]

I’m the government and I want to buy good chips. Should I get sour cream and onion or barbecue?

[@meltossmedia]

All this but isn't most manufactured parts from China, not the speciality parts but the metal forms and some components

[@cliffordnelson8454]

Sounds to me like semiconductor prices will meltdown in a couple years. China is building up its capacity to cover up all of it needs. In a decade I expect that China will have 4 times the production it does today, meeting the majority of Chinese needs. By that time all these new factories that are being built now will not be close to state of the art, and probably will have never made a profit because chip prices crashed. Lots of lost investment.

[@maxheadrom3088]

FPGAs were developed by request of the US Navy.

[@thememeoverlord.1949]

If the Pentagon actually cared, they would invest and build their own fabs.

[@hahahuhu9828]

consumer make the market? yeah, US military with the backed of unlimited FED printing money can't make new market US had proved itself by becoming the first oil producer in few years this is nothing for them especially if they just want to supply the US military about the technicality, it will be done step by step. Currently, they still have NSA to cover all the holes then they will improve and patch out those invulnerabilities with FED printing money, they can do this over many years

[@RealWerfy]

6:49 mhhmm yes the m1 in an iphone. Great video tho

[@hitmusicworldwide]

Taiwan got nuclear weapons fuzes? A "misdelivered" shipment? Ha ha ok I'll buy THAT for a dollar. Did they return them? I mean, did they REALLY return them? Or does Beijing have a surprise in store for it should it invade. Thanks for that info... It works well in my cynical national interest foreign policy calculation formulas.

[@Teochewtuahang]

US semi conductor chip leadership based on forcing Toshiba to handover the technology of producing semiconductor 😂

[@henrychan720]

Eh just use consumer SoCs and open source chips. If you can control rockets using off the shelf components, pretty sure you can control missiles with that too.

[@karebu2]

8:17 isn’t IBM bought over by Lenovo (China) now?

[@Enxuvjeshxuf]

IBM is publicly traded

[@gregchapman2646]

Seems like more an outsourcing of their PC division: www.ibm.com/ibm/us/en/pcannouncement/

[@winkstorm]

IBM sold off only their ThinkPad / PC division to Lenovo. IBM is still IBM.

[@motherlandbot6837]

@karebu2 Lenovo bought IBM's microcomputer division, but not IBM itself. IBM (like the US semiconductor industry, which was the world leader in the 1980s) is now a pitiful shell of their former selves, limited to servicing and selling mid sized business computers. During the 1980s, their Intel 8086 and 8088 based microcomputers dominated the business, university, and home computer markets worldwide; they were the first non mainframe computers that I used at work and in my research. Fast forward 40 years, and IBM is now a metaphor for the West's decline, and reascendant East Asia's dominance in high tech. IBM, like today's Microsoft, was long "uncool" among knowledgeable techies, because they stole tech from and/or crowded out more truly innovative rivals. Ironically, in some of my graduate business and economics classes during the 1980s, IBM's theft from and destruction of more innovative rivals was praised and glorified as "astute business"! Now Intel's Pat Gelsinger is warning that "the West is too dependent on (East) Asia" for chips, while expanding company facilities in Ireland and Israel, but not here in the US...

[@motherlandbot6837]

@@Enxuvjeshxuf So is Lenovo.

[@lithostheory]

What a mess…

[@MrStoopidKow]

around 6:50, iphones don't have m1 chips (as of yet)

[@qake2021]

🤣🤣🤣 🇺🇲 have failed to contain 🇨🇳‼️🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸