11/17 But after pushing most US chip makers out of memory, Japanese firms only had each other to compete with. And, having solved the key bottleneck in memory chip production, it became a race to the bottom.
Then, they made a fatal mistake, missing the rise of a new product: the personal computer.
From the early 1990s on, PCs and gadgets to go along with it, printers, scanners, digital cameras, gaming graphics cards, and more, gobbled up chips.
By 2000, half of all semiconductors went into PCs.
Germany’s missiles in Ukraine can now theoretically attack Moscow (“Moskau” in German).
Can Russia give Belarus some missiles to bomb Berlin? 🤔
The US is laughing at Europe, whose destruction in WW1 and WW2 gave birth to the American Empire.
#WWIII