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SUnknownSkyWater Technologies: America's Semiconductor Foundry

Tue, Jul 06, 2021

Here is a company profile of SkyWater Technologies. The company is a Minnesota based United States owned specialty microchip producer currently operating (2021) three clean rooms. Its customers are both commercial and government including DARPA which has contracted for radiation hardened microchips.

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SUnknownCATL's Sodium-Ion Battery: Better than Lithium?

Sat, Aug 07, 2021

Sodium ion batteries and lithium ion batteries were being developed in parallel until the lighter weight and higher energy density enabled lithium batteries to win out as portable devices grew in popularity. But that popularity is now working against lithium as sources of lithium are somewhat limited. So interest in sodium is growing for large scale energy storage because sodium is cheaper and universally prevalent.

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SUnknownWhat China Thinks is a "Tech Company"

Wed, Sep 15, 2021

China has released it's fourteenth five year plan for research and development and it doesn't include the hot technologies that make the 6:00 o'clock news. Chinese investment goals are more forward looking so their investment yuan will be going toward; quantum computing, brain science, semiconductors, seed industry, and genetic engineering, regenerative medicine, biotechnology, clinical medicine and space/ocean?polar research.

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SUnknownIndia's Semiconductor Failure

Wed, Sep 22, 2021

India had considerable talent in the semiconductor making it a leading chip designer. But it's attempts to enter the fabrication business have failed. In the 1980's India started a fabrication business that was just one generation behind leading companies when a fire destroyed its factory. By the time it was back in production Samsung and TSMC had captured much of the market.

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SUnknownWhat Eating the Rich Did for Japan

Sat, Oct 09, 2021

In the mid-1800s Japanese leadership discovered western civilization had over taken Japan in industrialization. Government programs proved too expensive to close the gap so it embarked on a program of privatization which created the Zaibatsu, a group of families whose companies came to totally controlled the Japan economy. In the 1930s a military government took control of the government and began dismantling the Ziabatsu. So wealthy were these families that it took over twenty years and several wealth redistribution programs.

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SUnknownHow China's CATL Makes an EV Battery

Wed, Dec 15, 2021

CATL is the largest electronic vehicle battery producer in the world. Maintaining that dominance is not easy. It requires efficient mastery of the complex manufacturing process as well as a vast supply of limited raw materials and clever navigation of the international business environment.

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SUnknownMEMS: The Second Silicon Revolution?

Sat, May 07, 2022

Since 1997 Microelectromechanical Systems 'mems' have been finding more and more applications. These devices are comparable in size to integrated circuits except they move and are very much custom to each application.

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