Things have really changed.
I often went drinking with this guy in those early days.
BJ Clinton buried the hatchet with North Vietnam for exactly this access to cheap labor. Since then, I don’t understand how people enlist in the military outside of the purely economic reasons. We don’t even pretend these conflicts have any purpose beyond a decade or two.
What was the place? - the Wagon Wheel?
I could never bring myself to do that.
Slap a tariff on all foreign made electronics. Bring it home.
After all these years Vietnam and the US are natural allies opposing China’s expansion and acquisition. Today’s Vietnamese people overwhelmingly want much closer relations with the US.
Did he create the triple nickel chip.....? aka 555 ?
...rendered safe a load of IED’s that used that 555 chip. Always wondered who designed it.
First of all, none of these chips are being fab’d in Vietnam.
Intel’s fabs are in OR, AZ, NM, Israel and Ireland.
The biggest is in Phoenix, the most advanced in Portland.
I suspect they are being packaged in Vietnam.
Second, I don’t think 80% is in Vietnam.
Manufacturing always follows cheap labor...
Aren’t those Vietnam plants assembly plants, where the chips—manufactured somewhere else, are sealed into their housings?
Vietnam has be a go-to place for all kinds of outsourcing for over 10 years at least. Anything that can be done remotely via computers can and is outsourced there. Engineering and architectural design, medical imaging analysis and all sorts of medical/dental imaging work, manufacturing of small components to myriad machines, etc.
This is not news to many of us in the design field. There are plenty of very smart educated and talented people in Vietnam willing for work for $100/month or less.
Vietnam has be a go-to place for all kinds of outsourcing for over 10 years at least. Anything that can be done remotely via computers can and is outsourced there. Engineering and architectural design, medical imaging analysis and all sorts of medical/dental imaging work, manufacturing of small components to myriad machines, etc.
This is not news to many of us in the design field. There are plenty of very smart educated and talented people in Vietnam willing for work for $100/month or less.
Sounds like Bob was an interesting and talented guy, if difficult to work with occasionally. The PC HR environment nowadays would have driven him crazy (it drives us crazy too but not everyone is talented enough to retire to Mexico and do consulting work for beer money :-) ).
I know enough about wilder to be impressed. My first book on op.amps.in college had a whole page.dedicated to him.
It is a blessing to have such a ring side seat when significant history is being made. Many people never manage such a close proximity with greatness.
I Very much admire the talent of these early pioneers, though they were before my time.
Outsourcing bump for later...
What a fascinating individual!
Thank you for the most interesting bio.
What a fascinating individual!
Thank you for the most interesting bio.
totally bookmarking this just to go back and reread that wiki link. Man alive, they don’t make them like that anymore.