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Can you imagine it?
你能想象吗？
Another year is at an end and it is remarkable to think that time has gone by so quickly.
又一年即将结束，令人惊奇的是时间过得如此之快。
In today's video, I want to reflect on 2024 and the state of the channel.
在今天的视频中，我想回顾 2024 年和频道的状况。
I am still actually working, haha.
其实我还在工作，哈哈。
But a few minutes to reflect.
但需要几分钟的时间来反思。
I have personal favorites this year that I want to share with you.
今年我个人最喜欢的一些东西想与大家分享。
Let us begin with that.
让我们从那开始吧。
My favorite video to make in 2024 was that of the Nisei interpreters during World War II.
2024 年我最喜欢制作的视频是二战期间日精翻译的视频。
Their plight of navigating two different cultures strikes a chord with me.
他们在两种不同文化中航行的困境引起了我的共鸣。
And their stories of heroism - particularly the story of Terry Doi at Iwo Jima - will always stick with me.
他们的英雄主义故事——尤其是硫磺岛特里·土井的故事——将永远铭记在心。
Second is the story of Texas Instruments.
其次是德州仪器的故事。
It has it all.
它拥有一切。
The integrated circuit, silicon transistors, Morris Chang and a disastrous foray into retail.
集成电路、硅晶体管、张忠谋以及灾难性的进军零售业。
I find myself going back to a few stories and re-reading them for enjoyment.
我发现自己会回到一些故事并重新阅读它们以享受乐趣。
This one I come back to a lot.
我经常回顾这一点。
Third is the story of Ei-Nis, the semiconductor maker in Serbia.
第三个是塞尔维亚半导体制造商Ei-Nis的故事。
Augmented with thoughts and image records from the son of a former worker there, I found it extraordinary insight into the Yugoslavian economy.
再加上那里一位前工人的儿子的想法和图像记录，我发现它对南斯拉夫经济有非凡的洞察力。
Fourth is my video about how a CVD diamond is made.
第四个是我关于如何制造 CVD 钻石的视频。
I came across the company during a visit to a startup fair in Taipei.
我在参观台北的一个创业博览会时偶然发现了这家公司。
I asked if they’d be interested to letting me do a video about them and amazingly enough they were.
我问他们是否有兴趣让我制作一个关于他们的视频，令人惊讶的是他们愿意。
And that is how I found myself in a small village outside Taichung, handling diamonds that might cost tens of thousands of dollars on the market.
这就是我如何发现自己在台中郊外的一个小村庄里，处理着市场上可能价值数万美元的钻石。
Lab diamonds are the future.
实验室钻石是未来。
Enough said.
说够了。
Fifth is my video on RF filters.
第五是我关于射频滤波器的视频。
A miraculous piece of technology that helped create the AI giant now known as Avago/Broadcom.
这项神奇的技术帮助创建了现在被称为 Avago/Broadcom 的人工智能巨头。
I want to thank the anonymous viewer in Denver who spent the time to walk me through it in a call.
我要感谢丹佛的一位匿名观众，他花时间在电话中向我介绍了整个过程。
In recent videos, I have been augmenting the research with conversations with key people.
在最近的视频中，我一直通过与关键人物的对话来扩大研究范围。
These might be experts in a field, researchers talking about their life's work, or participants in a historical event.
这些人可能是某个领域的专家、谈论他们一生工作的研究人员，或者是历史事件的参与者。
Perhaps one small advantage of being more well known is that people recognize who you are, and thus are more willing to speak with you.
也许知名度更高的一个小好处是人们会认出你是谁，因此更愿意与你交谈。
I am appreciative of that.
我对此表示赞赏。
Many of these people have unique life experiences that should be shared.
其中许多人都有值得分享的独特生活经历。
I worry about the knowledge of such experiences vanishing into the ether, and am glad to offer the channel as a way to get it out there.
我担心这些经历的知识会消失得无影无踪，但我很高兴提供这个渠道作为将其传播出去的一种方式。
If you got a fascinating idea, let me know about it.
如果您有一个有趣的想法，请告诉我。
Some of my favorite videos to research and write about have come about at the suggestion of a viewer.
我最喜欢研究和撰写的一些视频是根据观众的建议制作的。
For those who have recommended an idea to me but I have not been able to get to it, do not worry, it is on the list.
对于那些向我推荐了某个想法但我未能实现的人，不用担心，它就在列表中。
Someone once challenged me whether I really had a “list”.
曾经有人质疑我是否真的有一个“清单”。
I sent them a screenshot of it.
我给他们发了一张截图。
Yes the list exists.
是的，该列表存在。
Here is merely a tiny portion of the list.
这只是列表中的一小部分。
The channel also passed over 100 million lifetime views.
该频道的终生观看次数也超过了 1 亿次。
To me, it is stunning to think about how many people the videos must have reached around the world.
对我来说，一想到这些视频在全世界范围内吸引了多少人，我就感到很震惊。
There are a lot of milestones around, and most of the time I just ignore them.
周围有很多里程碑，但大多数时候我只是忽略它们。
Work continues on.
工作仍在继续。
But for some reason, 100 million sort of resonates with me.
但出于某种原因，“一亿”有点引起了我的共鸣。
I know that is how much your average MrBeast video does, but to me it is worth celebrating.
我知道这就是 MrBeast 视频的平均效果，但对我来说这是值得庆祝的。
I did a lot of traveling this year.
今年我做了很多旅行。
This year I was in Japan, the United States, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, and the UK.
今年我去了日本、美国、韩国、新加坡、瑞士、比利时、荷兰、法国、英国。
My favorite of all the places we traveled?
我们旅行过的所有地方中我最喜欢的是？
I really liked my trip to Europe for ITF 2024.
我非常喜欢参加 ITF 2024 的欧洲之旅。
It gave me a chance to explore many of the interesting technologies they are working on over there.
它让我有机会探索他们在那里正在研究的许多有趣的技术。
And of course, I got to visit the ASML campus, where it seems like I have a few fans.
当然，我还参观了 ASML 园区，在那里我似乎有一些粉丝。
Since then, more than a few people have asked me how I managed to get a visit.
从那时起，不少人问我是如何设法拜访的。
Honest truth?
诚实的事实吗？
No clue it just happened.
没有任何线索它刚刚发生。
The trip also let me bring back like two bags of cheese to Taiwan.
这次旅行还让我带了两袋奶酪回台湾。
I have since eaten all that cheese so I will just have to go back.
我已经吃完了所有的奶酪，所以我只能回去了。
"Why is Japan so Weak in Software?" This topic had been suggested to me by a friend in Japan during a visit.
“为什么日本的软件这么弱？”这个话题是一位日本朋友在访问期间向我建议的。
I thought it would be fun, but ended up struggling with it a great deal for several months thereafter.
我以为这会很有趣，但最终在接下来的几个月里一直在挣扎。
Did I ever really answer the question?
我真的回答过这个问题吗？
I am sure there are plenty of YouTube commenters who claim I did not, but I gave it the best try that I could.
我确信有很多 YouTube 评论者声称我没有这样做，但我已尽我所能。
The resulting video was a fascinating exercise and I want to do more of these in the future.
由此产生的视频是一次引人入胜的练习，我想在未来做更多这样的事情。
"The Rise and the Fall of the Cray Supercomputer".
“克雷超级计算机的兴衰”。
The idea had been suggested to me in a few reader emails, but it was a trip to the Computer History Museum that convinced me that I had to do it.
这个想法是在几封读者电子邮件中向我提出的，但一次计算机历史博物馆之旅让我确信我必须这么做。
I travel a lot around Taiwan for family reasons, so I remember many of these videos by where I was when I made them.
由于家庭原因，我经常去台湾旅行，所以我记得很多视频制作时我在哪里。
I distinctly remember working on the Cray video in Kaohsiung, Taipei, and Taichung - a whole variety of places.
我清楚地记得在高雄、台北和台中等各种各样的地方制作 Cray 视频。
I wanted to do a video about the rise of Japanese supercomputers, and how they affected Cray in the marketplace.
我想制作一个关于日本超级计算机的崛起以及它们如何影响市场上的克雷的视频。
Still might do it, but after doing that video I was all supercomputer'ed out.
仍然可能会这样做，但是在完成那个视频之后，我已经被超级计算机淘汰了。
Third, "The Birth, Boom, and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive".
第三，“硬盘驱动器的诞生、繁荣和衰落”。
I worked on this video throughout my travels in the United States and Japan.
我在美国和日本旅行期间制作了这个视频。
When I uploaded it, I clearly remember wondering if I had done the topic justice and whether it might be of interest to viewers.
当我上传它时，我清楚地记得想知道我是否正确地处理了这个主题以及观众是否会感兴趣。
As a guy who bought bunches of these HDDs back in the day, learning about them was fascinating to me.
作为一个曾经购买过大量此类硬盘的人，了解它们对我来说很有趣。
I did a follow-up video on that video discussing some new technologies in the industry's future.
我在该视频的基础上制作了一个后续视频，讨论了该行业未来的一些新技术。
The tech behind what they are doing is amazing.
他们所做的事情背后的技术是惊人的。
But I remain unsure about the future of the hard disk drive industry in the face of the NAND onslaught.
但面对 NAND 的冲击，我对硬盘驱动器行业的未来仍然不确定。
First and foremost is the IBM PC video.
首先也是最重要的是 IBM PC 视频。
The story of how Compaq, Intel and Microsoft wrenched the IBM PC away from its originator is absolutely fascinating.
康柏、英特尔和微软如何将 IBM PC 从其创始人手中夺走的故事绝对令人着迷。
Yeah, I know I put an ad on it, but I still think it was a wonderful story.
是的，我知道我在上面放了广告，但我仍然认为这是一个精彩的故事。
Some of the profiles of semiconductor companies like LSI Logic and STMicroelectronics did not do as well as I would have liked.
LSI Logic 和 STMicroElectronics 等半导体公司的一些概况并没有达到我的预期。
LSI Logic had been one of the major American semiconductor companies.
LSI Logic 曾是美国主要的半导体公司之一。
And STMicro in particular involved a retracing of the European semiconductor industry.
尤其是意法半导体参与了欧洲半导体行业的回溯。
The story of CEO Pasquale deftly managing two long-standing cultures and actually creating a profitable company out of it is remarkable.
首席执行官帕斯夸莱巧妙地管理着两种长期存在的文化，并真正从中创建了一家盈利的公司，他的故事是非凡的。
I also was a bit disappointed about the performance about the quantum sensing video.
我对量子传感视频的表现也有点失望。
Nitrogen Vacancy diamonds are some of the weirdest things I have thought about in a while, and I think y'all are sleeping on it.
氮空位钻石是我一段时间以来想到的最奇怪的事情之一，我想你们都在睡觉。
Yes, I still meet with people in Taipei!
是的，我还在台北和人见面！
Some of the most enjoyable conversations I have had this year include:
我今年最愉快的一些对话包括：
The conversation with a systems engineer at Rocket Lab, who patiently took me through the business of launch systems and space-based services.
与火箭实验室的一位系统工程师的对话，他耐心地向我介绍了发射系统和天基服务的业务。
I don't think much about space, but that was very enjoyable.
我不太考虑空间，但那是非常愉快的。
I enjoyed a conversation with the Nvidia engineer working in vision AI.
我很高兴与从事视觉 AI 工作的 Nvidia 工程师进行对话。
A kind soul who was open about what it was like to work there.
一个善良的灵魂，对在那里工作的感觉持开放态度。
And there was the chat with a few students from Yale, who asked a bunch of very detailed questions about Taiwan and the Taiwanese semiconductor ecosystem.
还有与耶鲁大学的几位学生的聊天，他们问了一系列有关台湾和台湾半导体生态系统的非常详细的问题。
I think we talked for four hours!
我想我们聊了四个小时！
And the various members of the semiconductor industry who took time out of their busy days to talk to me about what they are doing in their part of the world.
还有半导体行业的各个成员，他们在忙碌的日子里抽出时间来与我谈论他们在他们所在的地区所做的事情。
Every day, these guys work magic.
这些家伙每天都在施展魔法。
For at least 2025, I will be in Taiwan and the US for work - and will try to meet with people as I can.
至少到 2025 年，我将在台湾和美国工作，并会尽力与人见面。
With the way things are now, and recent events, I think it is important that people come here and see what Taiwan is like for themselves.
从现在的情况和最近发生的事件来看，我认为人们来到这里亲眼看看台湾是什么样子是很重要的。
There remains a whole lot of interesting things to be talking about in chips and semiconductors.
在芯片和半导体领域，还有很多有趣的事情有待讨论。
I think I will still cover those stories in the future.
我想我以后仍然会报道这些故事。
But on the other hand, I feel like I am getting a bit too heavy into the semiconductors.
但另一方面，我觉得我对半导体的关注有点太重了。
And while there are plenty of comments out there saying that when I wander away from semiconductor topics it's not as good, it keeps me fresh and happy.
尽管有很多评论说，当我远离半导体主题时，它并不那么好，但它让我保持新鲜和快乐。
Personally, running the channel is still exhausting.
就我个人而言，跑频道还是很累的。
More than a few times in 2024, I found myself uploading later than midnight, and then immediately prepping the next video.
2024 年，我不止一次发现自己在午夜之后上传，然后立即准备下一个视频。
I wish I had more time.
我希望我有更多的时间。
But the YouTube game is such that if you are not consistently posting then people are watching someone else.
但 YouTube 的游戏是这样的，如果你不持续发帖，那么人们就会在看别人。
I get it.
我得到它。
That is the life we sign up for.
这就是我们报名的生活。
I still love doing this.
我仍然喜欢这样做。
As always, working on this channel is the privilege of my life and I look forward to having more stuff for you guys in 2025.
一如既往，在这个频道工作是我一生的荣幸，我期待着 2025 年为你们带来更多的东西。