RC286 - 2013-11-15
Interesting story about how the western world invents the semi conducter, and how the Japanese improve em.
After the war they had more incentive than anyone else to master these technologies. I may have some information a little crossed up, but I think it was Sony or Sharp that went from manufacturing bicycle headlamps in a factory with dirt floors to a true silicon foundry in 3 years...and in the same factory.
I also remember my father in the early 1960s was doing some research on transistors. They cost £25 each at a time when there was around US$4 to the pound.
Great vid but such a shame its so over exposed ....makes it hard to watch.
It's old videotape, which has degraded. At least someone digitised it before it had become completely unwatchable. To those of us around the world who worked in semiconductors and wafer fabrication, this video series is like Gold. It’s part of everyone's history.
@RWBHere Overexposure from a way too hot video signal has nothing to do with video tape degradation... that would cause quite the opposite (dropouts, contrastless blurry mess)
@RWBHere It makes me wonder how many people have read "We Were Burning"...
"the white lines..." WHAT WHITE LINES!
Remarkable to think manufacturing refinements went from a couple of good transistors per 1000 manufactured that would fail quickly due to environmental conditions, to bulk manufacture of chips that contain 20,000,000,000 working transistors that are reliable enough to work for a decade or more.
Great history of the industry while I was in Air Force working on election tubes fire control systems.
"solid circuits" sounds way cooler than integrated circuit. maybe because it kinda sounds like solid snake
SNAAAAAKE!
Snnnaaakkkkeeeeee
I never realized that to make Silicon Valley you had to start from making pure silicone. A mountain of it.
This whole thing has been a mountainous task. See the original crystals, the initial purification methods...fast forward to the computer you are using to look at this.
STEM rules.
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seems like a recurring theme... it worked great in tests.. then we rolled it out to mass production....
It is indeed a recurring theme, that itself is ever recurring.
I have a X Y table for lining up silicon wafer masks. David and Mann. Someone rescued it from GEC when it closed down.
Thank you for Transistor & IC.
Pretty amazing documentary. I learned a lot on some things I knew hardly anything about. As a tech buff, I found it all rather exciting.
Very interesting, but I wish it was more watchable. I couldn't see half of what they were showing.
actually silicon valley didnt' just spring up 'blind' from farm land - but rather sprang out of the valley's RADAR industry which was having major US military money pumped into it via Stanford University and Dr Stanley Terman as i recall - the story is actually fascinating - i recommend looking up 'the secret history of silicon valley' by steve blank here on youtube - FASCINATING!!!
The French being French!
Really enjoyed the video. Thanks. My only issue was everytime the narrator said "silicone" I shuddered. Be g difference between silicon and silicone!!!
Do you mind if I host these documentaries as well as a second source on my channel ? I think they are beautiful!
More impurities = lower resistance, or in other words, better conductance. Therefore, the higher the resistance you get, the higher the purity. Tada! lol
うむ、完全に理解した
Interesting to see how long it took until they had Si BJT that were any good (reliable and say Ft=300MHz)
No mentioning of any FET types.
why is this so bright my eyes hurt
Very good video series. Thank you Japan.
They never told how a transistor actually does it's thing.
Transistors have two major properties: you can use them as switches (on/off) or as amplifiers (varying the input to multiply the output). You need to research how the uses work at molecular level, which is non-intuitive at first sight. :0)
Wish there was a better quality version =/
What motivated Noyce to sell patents to Japan, in the post war context?
37:23 - where did the calculator disappear?
Don't ask them aliens. They'll come to catch you.
They skip a lot of details in this video, don't they? I wish they wouldn't do that.
The alternative would be a whole series of videos. Not that I would mind at all.
But to be realistic we are bloody lucky to have this depth of documentary. These days it would all just be shine, bullshit, over hype and faux wow factor.
This does not. Which is good because none of that cack is needed, it would detract and merely waste more precious time.
@14:22 AIWA
Fantastic.. Everyone should watch. Thanks for posting .
so funny 3 outta of 1000 are good xD
Why Japan leave the electronic industry and give Chinese short life electronics.. that have done a major recycling threat to the world...!!!
Japanese come back .., take over cheap Chinese....
Let's totally forget about why people stopped using Japan as much. Couldn't be they stopped innovating, their mega corps became increasingly arrogant and cared much more about protecting IPs than producing anything worthwhile. Sony was one of the worst about this in the 2000s, coming to a head with the DRM on physical music CDs, the PS3 (so many issues), and blu-ray (which was also PS3).
Japan never left the electronics sector, so really your whole post is based on a misreading of the situation...
Also the recycling problem is worldwide, this isn't a China problem. Otherwise products from Japan, and elsewhere would generally be repairable. They aren't. It's a worldwide problem. Products are built to be disposable, not upgrade-able or fixable.
Check where your products are made. Doesn't matter if it's Taiwan, Mexico, US, Germany, Japan, Korea, etc, they all come glued together with no schematics and no way to source parts to repair the stuff. This is a capitalism problem actually.
Not anymore sunny boy!
Why is the contrast so high?
because 75 Ω
at 21:35 the guy walking against the sunny background seems to be translucent/transparent?
but that doesn't explain how the background objects are visible.the magnetic tapes only record whats visible infront and not what is behind an opaque object.i sense something paranormal.
@The Entity dont go there
Exactly, same thing with apollo 11 video, you have see-thru astronauts.
Worth a shot since no one else posted these videos in higher quality.
@RC286
A lot of people are saying it's an impedance mismatch the VCR and the video capture card. You could try putting those 300ohm to 75ohm balun matching transformer.
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This Chapter was more about the History of American electronic industry
to me, it looks like an American made documentary. which kinda makes it look that the Japanese electronics industry is only big and successful, and only became so, because they copied the americans
its important because it shows just how much the japanese copies the Americans and couldn't think of anything themselves
@Motor Madness I think a lot of advances in science are derivative. Scientists improve upon the work of others that have come before them. This is not theft or laziness it is how advances are made by all of science. To assert that any group of scientists just copy another group without adding to the science is ingenuous at best.
Ingenuous? Judging by your 3 lead-in sentences, it's obvious you don't know the meaning of the word. The correct word you were seeking, its opposite, is "disingenuous."
"Improve," yes. But "copy"? No. That's what China and Iran do: copy. More exactly, "steal." Yes, China is getting better at electronics, but their continued theft of high tech continues to grate on the innovators in the West. Trump is pushing China hard on the issue, and China doesn't like being caught with its hands in the cookie jar. Theft kills ingenuity and human progress by stealing from those who invest time and money to innovate. This is why the US has its patent system: to reward innovators with a temporary monopoly on their inventions, and is one key reason why the US leads the world in innovation. With your ignorant, dismissive attitude, you obviously condone theft.
@Motor Madness the japanese became leaders in all things electronics, you don't lead by copying, that's a paradox.
Can't pay for conventional circuit simulators? Look for androidcircuitsolver on google
Look at the guy at 1:19
lol
holy shit that's a camera.mp4
Dishonor on entire family! 😐😂
MisterTalkingMachine He was about to grab one of the girl's bootie but then he saw the camera. He almost brought great dishonor to the emperor. Did anyone else catch what happened here with Japan's defeat after the war? The Americans didn't go in there to occupy the country like it was thought to be going to happen by a lot of Japanese people. Instead the American scientists got together with the Japanese scientists to put together a peaceful society for both countries. This looks a lot better than putting bullets into each other. In the next world war whoever goes against the USA will have a huge problem coming at them from Tokyo.
@John Lopez I think the Asian culture had a hand in the success of the Modernization of Japan. I have my doubts that the same would work in the Middle east with Islamic countries.
at 2:20 he reports just about zero percent useable transistors. Step in Clive Sinclair who would buy them and sell them as a kit to build amplifiers. That's what he did with Plessey Semiconductor scrap transistors in the 1960's.
Quite right Andrew. It took me ages to discover why my circuits never worked. Clive Sinclair held me back for years.
My, but how times have changed. Since Dr. Noyce died in 1990, and this video makes reference to "the late Robert Noyce," the video is no more than 28 years old as I write this. Thanks mainly to pollution controls mandated by the state and feds, silicon manufacturing in Silicon Valley has all but disappeared. Instead, the Valley now pushes one's and zero's out the door in this digital world controlled by software. I remember shopping at that audio store in the 80s but not knowing at the time that it was the site of Shockley's original facility. The city of Mountain View recently had it leveled to put in high rise apartments. They obviously have no sense of history.
I believe the Environmental Protection Agency has single-handedly killed the industrial superiority of the United States through bureaucratic regulation.
I have found Americans rarely have a sense of appreciation when it comes to history, even their own history.
@trespire I find that the indifference to history helps the Democrat party in the US. but then, The American Revolution, while important to US citizens, is just a footnote in British schools. It's a matter of perspective, not an educational failure.
@clockguy2 History tends to be hijacked by those in power in order to serve their own purpose. Hearing both sides to a event, and considering the circumstances leading up to it I have found negate any propaganda. Pinches of salt, lots of salt.
original version was broadcast in 1991
NHK succeeded in interviews with John Bardeen and Robert Noyce, but they died before broadcast
https://youtu.be/-eYhzd5rmvA?t=2561
8:20 - Minamata. That place was in the news, because of a disaster, some years ago.
Chisso corporation that features in this video had polluted the waters around their plant in southern Japan with mercury to the extent that there were a lot of horrible birth defects, the so called Minamata disease. Later, Chisso found that the level of pollution they had created made the area suitable for mercury mining. Look up this tragedy on Wikipedia.
Poisoning with organic mercury compoiunds in 1951-1968 of fish and shellfish and about 2000 people who ate it and became sick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
The Dead Kennedy’s wrote a sone about it back in the 80’s.
The Dead Kennedy’s wrote a punk song about it back in the 80’s even.
The Chisso factory was responsible for the poisoning of the Bay from the release of methylmercury. Screwed up a LOT of people and was home of the “dancing cats”. Fun fact....
Very odd comments at times with this series..but I loved the videos very informative, regardless of who's funding them.
very nice history of human evolution in just a few years.
Transistor gril is best gril. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Wonder why they left those buildings to become overgrown. Like they are contaminated or something.
Didn’t raze them.
Ever heard of Minimata disease? That might be one of the reasons
At 12:30 is the music I remember from the arcade game Mad Dog McCree from American Laser Games. Wonder where it comes from or name of the tune?
Song : California Skyrider - De Wolfe Music
Artist : De Wolfe Music Library
Album : DWCD 0013 - Spirit Of America
Thanks for the information, but I still can't find the song on YouTube or on the Internet.
Thank you! It was interesting to listen to the entire song. I never knew it had saxophone in the song later on.
Basketball Jones - 2018-09-07
Would someone please put the 75 ohm terminator on the video input? Thanks.
blackdatto - 2019-11-12
Arrrhh. MR Jones many may not understand what it is you speak of. Makes me feel old however.
Shaine MacDonald - 2019-11-23
@Gregan Dark Basically, you put a terminator at the end of a transmission line to match AC impedance of the cable. It minimizes power loss and signal interference. Eg: coaxial cables. Impedance is like Resistance but it's in an AC circuit.
immrnoidall - 2019-12-01
awe. electronic humor. LOL.
ytrew - 2020-01-31
@Steve Bollinger but why 75 ohm? Why not 10 or 1000?
Jesse Dosher - 2020-02-02
@ytrew Impedance matching.