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Birth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)

RC286 · documentary · Watch on YouTube

History of computingSemiconductors & chip manufacturing

What it is

First part of a four-part video history of Japan's electronics industry, covering the birth of the transistor and the rise of Japanese semiconductors. It appears to draw on NHK documentary material.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in documentary and semiconductor-history threads as a detailed look at Japan's chip industry.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I wouldn't call it the best documentary, but I think people here will like it”

    Four-part documentary on the history of Japan's electronics industry.

    newman8r, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?”

  2. “Japanese semiconductor industry, for which there is an excellent NHK documentary”

    Excellent NHK documentary on the Japanese semiconductor industry.

    rmrfstar, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX”

  3. “There is a four-part documentary I saw on YouTube that went into much more (fascinating) detail.”

    Four-part documentary with much more fascinating detail.

    JKCalhoun, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors”

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Topics: transistor, semiconductors, japan, nhk, history

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