What are "wafers"?
Yes, 10+ 9 purity. And the impurities in those crystals were put in there on purpose (to make N-type or P-type Silicon). I never personally understood the chemistry or physics behind the process, but its always cool thinking about how exceptionally pure this whole process is.
In any case, if a run of wafers is bad, that can easily be hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of chips per wafer. For whatever reason, it seems like these wafers did not have the 99.99999999% purity needed to successfully make chips, so everyone's chips are ruined. Whatever the issue is, you can rest assured that a ton of business folk are going to be pissed.
It's possible one of the washes or doping agents was contaminated, rather than the wafers themselves.
It's great.
Always wish I could go back and re-record this talking about 50% as fast.
I'm listening to this at 1.5x, which is my usual listening speed for non-musical videos. Your speed is fine.
Toastmasters [0] has helped me reduced my use of filler words: ahh, uhm, and, okay, so, you know, like, well, [pregnant pauses], [double clutches]. It's hard for me to listen to politicians anymore, because they're always gumming up their speech with linguistic crutches. I didn't used to notice.
[0] https://www.toastmasters.org/
"When we find ourselves rattled while speaking — whether we’re nervous, distracted, or at a loss for what comes next — it’s easy to lean on filler words. These may give us a moment to collect our thoughts before we press on, and in some cases, they may be useful indicators that the audience should pay special attention to what comes next. But when we start to overuse them, they become crutches — academics call them disfluencies — that diminish our credibility and distract from our message." [1]
[1] https://hbr.org/2018/08/how-to-stop-saying-um-ah-and-you-kno...
Do you have any plans to give an updated talk. It would be interesting to know about what comes after 7nm.
Which industry are you in now?
Soooo, it's now 2019.. is EUV working?