About this episode
The episode discusses the balance of gaming in life, the importance of microchips, and a recent family gaming experience.
Gaming can of course be an addiction. Like all things in life, balance is important and we ourselves are not above playing the occasional computer game as we all need a little escape here and there. In spirts and not letting it take over our life of course. Amongst other more creative things, one of our rituals we do for fun with our daughter is watch anime or game together. And recently we did an extremely rare acquisition and bought a new but used off Craigslist graphics card. By the way, we highly recommend the book "Chip War" on the subject of microchips and the massive importance of two companies on the planet, one of which is called ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials) which does extreme ultraviolet photolithography, creating the world's only machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced microchips, and the other is called TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and is the company that manufactures the majority of the world's microchips using ASML hardware in Taiwan and is why that is such a crucial small country in the Earth realm currently. Right around the time of this new GPU acquisition a new game had…
People in this episode
Host: Niles Heckman
Topics covered
- gaming
- microchips
- family activities
- technology
- balance in life
Keywords
- gaming
- microchips
- ASML
- TSMC
- Chip War
- family
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ASML, TSMC
Books & works: Chip War
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