USA vs China: The Microchip War

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From Doritos to semiconductors, Johnny sure knows a lot about chips.

It’s so mind-boggling to think that we can make transistors less than ten atoms wide now 🤯 — We didn’t even have rockets one-hundred years ago!

I am scientist at a University in NC. My PhD was in microfabrication and photolithography. You nailed this video. All of the science content was correct and communicated very well. I enjoyed watching this video because outside of the engineering and science content, I learned a lot. Well Done sir!

Huawei: Hello? America? 😂

Okay the size of a transistor being smaller than a strand of DNA is actually blowing my mind right now. That is so so so so crazy. To think how far we’ve come

I am an engineer and I studied semiconductors for two semesters in school. Johnny’s explanation of what chips are and how they work was BY FAR the simplest I have ever seen or heard. You really are a gem of a content creator. Please never stop the good work. ❤

It’s weird to watch this video now that Huawei is using Chinese 7nm chips made in China… the US really lost it’s edge on this technology

I knew the importance of microships, but as an european engineer I had absolutely no ideal of all this geopolitical background acts! Thank you for bringing light for this, since the mainstream media only focus on superficial stuff! Subscribed

Being an engineer in ASML, I must say you did a great job explaining the whole thing. Great video as usual but I wish you had talked more about ASML than just saying magic laser machine makers. Having a monopoly on lithography machine manufacturing, they are not less of a player than TSMC in the global chip supply chain.

Great video like always

Fantastic! I work at one of these companies and it was so delightful to watch such a beautiful presentation of the work that my company is doing. You made me learn about my company much more than my company's onboarding videos did!

Hey update as for September, China finally getting on 7nm semiconductor on Huawei Phone. The whole reason of keeping Taiwan safe might be gone by now. And the big reason they blocked semiconductor, might be less effective.

I work in the semi conductor industry as a design engineer in the US and I feel great after watching this video, especially the short story of the mind boggling chip manufacturing process. Its unknown to many but its just out of the world tech innovation humans have ever come across. Many also don't know the impact of this trade war in their day to day life. I am happy you summarized it pretty well. I would love to watch a video on the whole cycle of chip designing. Its really interesting and it would be great for others to hear it from you. Great job Johnny. :goodvibes:

Fabs really are remarkable. Some of the most automated facilities in the world, and they require almost complete retooling when wafer sizes change every few years. I worked in the space creating high purity gas lines for some of the bigger tool makers and the market is a constant cycle of boom and bust.

So glad I found this channel, your videos are very informative and on point! Keep up the good work

Seriously to me this is the best storytelling and video quality I've seen on YouTube. I keep getting stuck on his videos all the time

The most important thing Johnny said here was “weapononizing economic interdependence” - very true. When these nations were becoming interdependent, they didn’t think some of them would intend to weaponize it. It shows why many empires of the past aimed to be 100% self sufficient.

When the chips act got passed and TSMC announced the investment in the US all i could think about was HOW none of the large Media outlets reported on this in the huge way this deserves. This is BIG. EDIT: of course some reported, but I felt like delayed and without proper economic analysis.

Hey , Just wanted to leave a comment to tell you I just discovered your channel and I cant believe how interesting it is. Top quality content ,you get me hooked up from start to finish.