The Most Important Factory in the World: A company in the Netherlands makes a $150,000,000 machine that's used to make microchips. Can you think of any products that use microchips?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A company in the Netherlands makes a $150,000,000 machine that's used to make microchips. Can you think of any products that use microchips? That's right - almost everything. If a company doesn't have one of these machines, well, it's not going into the chip business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shuv9-MJBEU

TommiRulz Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

Super interesting !!!

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

Let me guess you bought two of them????

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

A company in the Netherlands makes a $150,000,000 machine that's used to make microchips. Can you think of any products that use microchips? That's right - almost everything. If a company doesn't have one of these machines, well, it's not going into the chip business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shuv9-MJBEU

Hmmmm...

sr71 Loc: In Col. Juan Seguin Land

I'll take two thank you...... thanks for posting......really neat how they do this....

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

olddutch wrote:

Let me guess you bought two of them????

Waiting list.

BebuLamar

jerryc41 wrote:

A company in the Netherlands makes a $150,000,000 machine that's used to make microchips. Can you think of any products that use microchips? That's right - almost everything. If a company doesn't have one of these machines, well, it's not going into the chip business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shuv9-MJBEU

Many of the American companies in the microchip business without the capabilities to make the chip. Many of them are farbless companies. Apple has many chips but they can't make a single chip. They don't even have the ability to make Mac computer or Iphone either. Not only their products made overseas they didn't own the factories that made their products either. American businesses learned how to make a lot of money without making anything.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Most important? The most important factory in the world was the factory in my hometown!!! GM pulled it out and the city caved.

Dannj

BebuLamar wrote:

Many of the American companies in the microchip business without the capabilities to make the chip. Many of them are farbless companies. Apple has many chips but they can't make a single chip. They don't even have the ability to make Mac computer or Iphone either. Not only their products made overseas they didn't own the factories that made their products either. American businesses learned how to make a lot of money without making anything.

You mean “fabless” right?
(I never heard the word so I looked it up😳)

BebuLamar

Dannj wrote:

You mean “fabless” right?
(I never heard the word so I looked it up😳)

Yes I am sorry for the bad spelling. Yes a manufacturer without a fabrication capability. So you can make money without making the products.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

olddutch wrote:

Let me guess you bought two of them????

No, that's not Jerry's SOP -- he's going to build one himself!

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

BebuLamar wrote:

Many of the American companies in the microchip business without the capabilities to make the chip. Many of them are farbless companies. Apple has many chips but they can't make a single chip. They don't even have the ability to make Mac computer or Iphone either. Not only their products made overseas they didn't own the factories that made their products either. American businesses learned how to make a lot of money without making anything.

They must have learned from Vivitar!

Hassie Loc: Central Pennsylvania

Jerry, I'll bet you can find someone there to straighten out your continuing computer problems.

Dannj

BebuLamar wrote:

Yes I am sorry for the bad spelling. Yes a manufacturer without a fabrication capability. So you can make money without making the products.

I never thought about that. I guess a chip is useless by itself but you can make a lot of money selling them to someone else.😳

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

jerryc41 wrote:

A company in the Netherlands makes a $150,000,000 machine that's used to make microchips. Can you think of any products that use microchips? That's right - almost everything. If a company doesn't have one of these machines, well, it's not going into the chip business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shuv9-MJBEU

I have one on order, but I may have wasted my money. My plan was to make chips for common consumer products and put 2 types of bugs in each of them (1) every product will have random failures that cannot be isolated or fixed and (2) every product will die 1 day after the warranty expires. Now, someone tells me that this design is already in every product in the USA. Oh well, I will be the only person on my block to have one of these machines in his garage. Does anyone want to buy it at 1/2 price?

I wonder if it can be modified to make pizza... or ice cream?