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icon:: 📖 purchased:: Jan 3rd, 2023 start:: Jan 3rd, 2023 end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: reading-time:: score:: - - Highlights - In 1986, with the threat of tariffs looming, Washington and Tokyo cut a deal. Japan’s government agreed to put quotas on its exports of DRAM chips, limiting the number that were sold to the U.S. By decreasing supply, the agreement drove up the price of DRAM chips everywhere outside of Japan, to the detriment of American computer producers, which were among the biggest buyers of Japan’s chips. Higher prices actually benefitted Japan’s producers, which continued to dominate the DRAM market. Most American producers were already in the process of exiting the memory chip market. - Grove applied his paranoia with a ruthlessness Silicon Valley had rarely seen. #bezosism - In Grove’s restructuring plan, step one was to lay off over 25 percent of Intel’s workforce, shutting facilities in Silicon Valley, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and Barbados. Grove’s deputy described his boss’s approach as: “Oh my god. Fire these two people, burn the ships, kill the business.” #Entrepreneurship - If HP could grow from a Palo Alto garage to a tech behemoth, surely a fish-and-vegetables shop like Samsung could, too. “It’s all thanks to semiconductors,” one HP employee told him. #semiconductors - Mead liked to think of himself as Johannes Gutenberg, whose mechanization of book production had let writers focus on writing and printers on printing. Conway was soon invited by MIT to teach a course on this chip design methodology. Each of her students designed their own chips, then shipped the design to a fabrication facility for manufacturing. Six weeks later, having never stepped foot in a fab, Conway’s students received fully functioning chips in the mail. The Gutenberg moment had arrived. - Over the 1980s, a cadre of students and faculty from these two universities founded a series of startups that created a new industry—software tools for semiconductor design—that had never previously existed. #Generative Tech -