Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). But they don’t design chips.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Both China and Taiwan now provide a 5 year, zero-tax holiday, for semiconductor manufacturers, followed by 5 years at rates as low as 5%.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2020

Zoom went from 10 million users at the end of 2019 to 200 million at the end of March – all in a matter of three months (though its worth saying that its also seen a number of organisations and governments ban its use in recent days over security concerns). How to find them all is the question I tried to answer in my previous post.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

The hardware is the basic building blocks: talented people, professional organizations, market policies and good physical infrastructure. Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? Hwang: What we think of as free markets are actually not that free.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

China also emerged from decades of socialist isolation to engage with the rest of the world, employing a market based “socialism” with Chinese characteristics. semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan), may be diffused across more places, empowering new hubs to develop expertise and innovations. . crypto/web3, climate tech, etc).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Which is why large clusters exist in the cloud, or the largest companies/ government agencies.) Hang on to your seat.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And if you want to cooperate with China, that leads you down a path where you put Taiwan relations on the back burner. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. The Future of 5G.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." What did Taiwan do? would be in a very different place than we are today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. We don't have to wait for the government.

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