Posted on 01/19/2015 7:38:53 AM PST by blam
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?
Yup. Since the US government is now Communist it does not seem to matter much.
I could never bring myself to do that.
YUP! Walkers Wagon Wheel.
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.
I noticed that my recently purchased computer printer was manufactured in Vietnam. Brother is a Japanese firm, but manufacture in Vietnam.
It’s pretty much always about who gets the money....except when it’s insane muzzies.
As someone famous said, “Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, they only have permanent interests.”
Please comment on our economic, diplomatic, military, and political relationships with Japan, the Italian Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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.
Less than 20 years before John Kennedy said “Ich bin ein Berliner” we were doing our absolute best to burn the entire country of Germany to the ground.
It is a bit different when you win the war and can force your former enemy to change.
We didn’t really do that with Vietnam.
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.
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