my experience says: a person who has money and a company but no technical background thinks only money and underestimate and undervalue technical stuff; on the other side, technical backgrounded bosses know to give value to deserved ones.
+EEVblog the problem is for people that already have problem with English because is not natal language, after of years of hearing you now I understand Aussies. but this is almost imposible
+Mariano Gaston I'm a native English speaker (American) and trust me, it doesn't seem to be helping. I'm picking out a few words here and there. A transcript or subs would be great. I try to listen but I'm just missing too many words.
What a great interview to conduct Dave! Really interesting stuff. The fact that he would come to you is very impressive (not to down play your impressive stature in any way). To not speak through an interpreter is even more impressive on his confidence in his product & company, his personal ideas and his willingness to appear transparent and approachable. That's not lost on me as I have had plenty of meetings with business leaders in China to know just how difficult and closed they can be. From a marketing perspective, this move on Siglent's part is very forward thinking and inclusive. He gave plenty of detail on his technical approach without stopping you from asking anything proprietary. It's a very smart move and one I'm sure many will appreciate. I'm sure many will look at Siglent in a whole new light as a result.
SouthJerseySound Agreed. Especially impressive that he's talking about very technical things. I can ask how are you, where is the bathroom, and do you have any siblings in a handful of languages... I can only talk about bandwidth and sampling rate in one at the moment.
The CEO popping into the EEVblog lab for a chat! Respect! Lots of great off-the-cuff questions from Dave too. Seriously Dave, with >6 years of vlogging experience and your AmpHour podcasts I think you've mutated into something beyond an engineer. I've really enjoyed watching the evolution and am proud to be an EEVblog fan.
+ForViewingOnly Thanks, it was really a very off-the-cuff chat. I didn't get my calendar reminder in time and had forgotten!, and there they were knocking on my door! So I just hit record and made up some questions as we went along.
It's great that you did this interview Dave. You did a great job at framing the questions in an easily understandable way without sounding condescending which is very difficult. I did have a hard time understanding him but it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm glad to see a successful tech company like this. We could see that this honourable man is very humble and transparent. I wish to him and his company all the best!
I think it is awesome for Mr Qin to come on here for what seems to have been an impromptu interview. I find it nice to learn a little more about how a company came about and grew to a successful international business. Great job on the interview Dave. Thank you.
Great video! He has a strong accent but hats off to him for speaking english quite well - My wife is learning Chinese and the two languages are very different. Anyone that is a CEO, electronics engineer, and can speak another language as well is inspirational in my mind.
Excellent Interview. This guy is inspiring. I love the fact that his success is based on engineering knowledge and hard work, not just on being ignorant employer. Yolo from Poland.
That was really interesting to get some insight from Eric. What a really "down to earth" guy for a CEO! Thanks for the video Dave and Eric - I enjoyed the interview very much!
Really enjoyed that...kudos to Mr. Qin for participating in Dave's show. As a hobbyist looking at upgrading my lab, I will definitely give Siglent a long eval. I really like Mr. Qin's company goal to provide every engineer with good equipment at good cost.
Dave, excellent interview. Have become aware of Siglent capabilities thanks to your videos. Upgraded my lab with Siglent DMM, AWG, and Scope for my HW design consulting business. Also recommended a Siglent scope to a customer to perform their own measurements. Previously, I've been in 3 startups and only one had a CEO that reminded me of Mr. Qin. Interestingly that was the only successful one. We went public in 2007 and then was bought out by a competitor (behemoth) in 2010 that took 5 yrs to get us off the market while recovering their investment. Gives me hope that not all CEOs are cynical greedy sociopaths.
Quite an nteresting interview Dave! It's thought provoking to hear from the founder of a company who was very much involved with the design of his original products, and has now moved into new and different areas of responsibility. Many thanks to Mr. Qin for his willingness to visit the lab and speak.
That was really very nice. Makes me immediately look up SIglent products and it was informative! This is a whole new level for the EEVBLOG! Excited to see what comes next!
Very interesting interview. It's always a good sign when a CEO comes face to face for his products in a simple way, as did Mr. Eric Qin. After seeing this interview I consulted siglent's website in Europe and ordered a laboratory power supply. Congratulations for your initiative.
What an excellent and fascinating interview, Dave. Eric comes across as a genuinely nice bloke, and I thank him for sharing his time and insights with us.
+Thiago Coura yes, its unfortunate that it's costing me a lot to fully understand him, in any case, i think it's very very cool that a CEO takes the time to visit a video blogger, shows how YT has become an important tool for manufacturers
I got out of the business of purchasing test equipment in 2005, and wasn't familiar with Siglent until seeing your tear downs. This was an interesting change of pace. It would be great to see you interview hardware or software engineers in the future.
Well done Eric on coming on the EEVBlog and talking about Siglent. It was an interesting interview and you did a lot better with your English than we would have done with our Chinese. He certainly comes across as a very genuine 'engineer' type - customer focused, understanding what he is selling. I thought he gave a good answer to the 2nd hand market question..
Great interview, very impressed with Mr Qin and his company and product knowledge, always good to see , and dare I say it , refreshing from upper management. Created a very favourable impression for me of the company as a whole.
This is exactly the attitude, direction and foundation that Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started out with. All my gear is HP, Fluke and Hitachi but I will certainly examine & consider Siglent products if this guy is for real.
First of. Thank-you Dave and Thank-you Eric Qin. I really liked the interview. Yes as an English only speaker it was not perfect. However the products are great and I can not speak Chinese so this was a 1000 x better than me learning or trying to understand his native tong. Mr. Eric Qin I truly respect all your effort and wish you the best of success, thank-you again.
Dave amazing job, superb question. You are a inspiration to many... Thank You very very much for all the videos, and please keep them coming Zdenek (Slovakia)
I think this is great. Why is everyone bashing a Chinese company that is trying to have a social presence in the United States? The more involved a company is with its customers, the more inclined those customers are to buy a product and the more inclined the company is to provide a high quality product. My Siglent oscilloscope for the price is really a very decent quality. I praise this company.
Thanks for the interview, I just stumble on this video you had with the CEO of Siglent, I feel very confident to buy my first Siglent scope when I see the CEO him self back then is a designer and now he trusts his engineering team to move forward. I have a hard time with his english so subtitle was accurate helpful, yours questions were gracefully dismissed but overall the guy spoke in truth because as an engineer myself, I can smell BS miles away.
Terrific interview, thanks Dave and Eric. Great questions and I really liked the way you actively listened to Eric's responses. A company's culture is driven from the top down and if Siglent continues to reflect Eric Qin's values in its products and customer service they will be a well deserved number one in the test equipment market one of these days.
A lot of respect for a CEO to actually visit and talk to actual users, and especially actually about knowing so much technical detail about his products. Most CEOs are marketing or business graduates, but he is actually a real engineer, who knows excatly how everything works. His accent also actually becomes very understandable about a quarter of the video in. If I ever need to buy a oscilloscope, it will be Siglent.
If you want to understand why there is such a thing as software limitations given a single hardware platform, imagine producing something complex like a scope. You buy components in bulk to reduce cost. By limiting bandwidth in software, you allow say a 50MHz scope to sell at a lower price point for the hobbyist market. At the same time a company can sell the same hardware to another high end market at a higher cost... How else do you cover all bases and recover r and d cost? 100+ engineers working around the clock for several years? Yeah, it adds up. Put yourself in their shoes. They're not out to screw anyone, they're in a business to make money and I think they're doing a damn fine job catering to the hobbyist market with a modest profit margin. Good for you Dave in having him on the show.
+Liam Baker I can see that. In practice it makes sense to maintain one branch of hardware and/or software development to keep things simple. I work on a global software team using an svn server to update and commit code and we always try to keep to a single trunk and never branch without good reason. We work on dozens of different hardware platforms (robots) with different kinematics and its just easier to maintain with a single core or kernel. Same goes for hardware - luckily I'm the only hardware dev guy, but even then I have a hard time keeping track of all the changes. I try to keep the same core across all products. Those chip designer guys I'm sure follow the same logic. It takes a couple of months to get a design through the fab, maybe a month if they run a super-hot prioritized lot, and typically a lower yield until the process is dialed in. That's a lot of cash, so better to design in options from the beginning! And its worth mentioning that some of those lower yield chips towards the edge of the wafer can still be useful, though they might be slightly out of spec. I heard back in the day that Radio Shack used to resell edge yield stuff (eh crap) that would otherwise be scrapped. Don't know how true that actually is, but I wouldn't be surprised at fabs trying to squeeze every last penny out of a wafer.
This CEO looks like a very smart, knowledgeable and nice guy... I ordered PCB's from China ;just sent them the files and in less than a week I had the PCB's at my door.China is serious about business, thanks to this guy I am the proud owner of a SSA3021X-TC SA at a fraction of a price...Hats off.. Just got my SHS810 handheld o'scope!
Woow, I am so impressed by the quality of the information wey received here this great. Great questions and great Eric. Thank you so much. Regards from México.
Love how there's always some people that freak out about an accent. Enjoyed the interview thank you. It was very interesting that all his engineers were Chinese, and he seemed surprised when you asked about foreign engineers. Also the wages going up, boom time in China!
Sheesh! That was hard work in places, but worth it! Lots of interesting information in there, just took a bit of effort on my part to pick it up! Well done, Dave-o!
I am very impressed with the amount of gross being spent on R&D, I also have respect for people who have a strong engineering background in what ever they are selling. Hope they do well, I will be taking more notice of their products.
Just to clarify things up... In central China (Hubei, Henan, etc.), people often have trouble differentiating L and N sounds. So what happens is that they pronounce N sounds as L. This is just their dialect. It is noticeable not only when they speak English, but also when they speak Mandarin. That's why he's pronouncing You Low, instead of You Know.
I just ordered a 1202x-e yesterday because of the value.. The thing that put me over the top wasn't the 200mhz, it was that the decoding features that others charge for were included. Best decision they made. And thanks to EEVblog for all the information Dave provides in his videos. Having videos like these certainly play a large role in Siglent's success. Not sure I would have even heard of Siglent if it wasn't for this channel.
Dave, thanks for this interview. Very interesting that as CEO, Eric Qin is not concerned about possible revenue loss due to firmware hacking to enable better performance.
Since this man has the moxy and guts to be interviewed, plus the fact that he has opened his US presence right here in Ohio, giving employment to Ohioans means it's a slam dunk for me that I will be buying his equipment.
I bought one of his scopes after comparing a lot and also from Dave's opinions on them. I am a hobbyist/experimenter and didn't have big bucks to drop on a scope. I love my Siglent! Great interview Dave!
It's great to gain a little insight into how these products are made. They are amazing value for money - so much complexity behind such a friendly interface.
Very interesting insight to Siglent, thanks for the interview Dave! Great to see that CEO has time for this kind of interview. For those commenting his thick accent, you should hear when Finnish businessmen try to speak English ;)
I am even more proud to own my Siglent gear now after watching this interview. Very nice job Dave, you asked every single question I would have asked if I were there. Gotta love companies run by engineers and keep true to their objectives. I LOVED THIS VID.
Wow high respect for this C-level Mr. Qin for being willing to visit you Dave. I think it is a really good thing that owners and higher management of tech brands listen and socialize with the users en techies, both will have profit out of this IMO.
I'm working for international company and his accent is acceptable comparing to my colleague's from china :D I got after two sentence's that's yellow is "you know" :D
+Jack Johnston I study engineering. I tried so hard to perfect my english, but from the looks of it, accent is not a really big issue in the industry. Well, it is a relief. Now I can just chill and focus on other stuff.
Always nice when the CEO is a technical person with a passion for the products they make.
my experience says: a person who has money and a company but no technical background thinks only money and underestimate and undervalue technical stuff; on the other side, technical backgrounded bosses know to give value to deserved ones.
Exactly, all tech companies should be ran by tech professionals, not ret_rded business majors.
@@MarkMcDaniel Well, unless it's a Havarrrrd MBA. Then, no problems.
Pathetic comments about his English - all I can say is he speaks much better English than my Chinese. Thanks for the video.
+Mavermick1 ......listen carefully and no issues at all....
+Mavermick1 Yes indeed. I had few problems with his English, which is infinitely better than my Chinese!
+EEVblog Please can you make a subtitle for this video. Im not native english, I can understand you but I cant understand him. Please
+EEVblog the problem is for people that already have problem with English because is not natal language, after of years of hearing you now I understand Aussies. but this is almost imposible
+Mariano Gaston I'm a native English speaker (American) and trust me, it doesn't seem to be helping. I'm picking out a few words here and there. A transcript or subs would be great. I try to listen but I'm just missing too many words.
What a great interview to conduct Dave! Really interesting stuff. The fact that he would come to you is very impressive (not to down play your impressive stature in any way). To not speak through an interpreter is even more impressive on his confidence in his product & company, his personal ideas and his willingness to appear transparent and approachable. That's not lost on me as I have had plenty of meetings with business leaders in China to know just how difficult and closed they can be. From a marketing perspective, this move on Siglent's part is very forward thinking and inclusive. He gave plenty of detail on his technical approach without stopping you from asking anything proprietary. It's a very smart move and one I'm sure many will appreciate. I'm sure many will look at Siglent in a whole new light as a result.
+State of Electronics I fully agre.....but that YOLO get me almost every time...sorry...but...yea...LOL...;)
SouthJerseySound Agreed. Especially impressive that he's talking about very technical things.
I can ask how are you, where is the bathroom, and do you have any siblings in a handful of languages... I can only talk about bandwidth and sampling rate in one at the moment.
Very cool. Would love to see more interviews with high profile execs.
+Afrotechmods Not easy being here downunder.
+EEVblog You need to go on tour ;)
A CEO that really cares about his costumers.
I'm changing brands after this. Sold.
^^ sponsored comment
+Nathan Trigg YOLOsCOPE
+Nathan Trigg maybe this was his tactic and you fell...?
+Nathan Trigg i made the experience that chinese people generally care very much about their customers.
+Bill Fontaine well you don't know me than
The CEO popping into the EEVblog lab for a chat! Respect! Lots of great off-the-cuff questions from Dave too. Seriously Dave, with >6 years of vlogging experience and your AmpHour podcasts I think you've mutated into something beyond an engineer. I've really enjoyed watching the evolution and am proud to be an EEVblog fan.
+ForViewingOnly Thanks, it was really a very off-the-cuff chat. I didn't get my calendar reminder in time and had forgotten!, and there they were knocking on my door! So I just hit record and made up some questions as we went along.
Big respect for Eric! not many CEO-s would do that
He seems like a really down-to-earth and humble dude for being a CEO. Very cool!
That's because he's an engineer, not a business asshole.
This is awesome!!!, a CEO with an engineering background talking openly about products and production; Thanks Dave
It's great that you did this interview Dave. You did a great job at framing the questions in an easily understandable way without sounding condescending which is very difficult. I did have a hard time understanding him but it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm glad to see a successful tech company like this. We could see that this honourable man is very humble and transparent. I wish to him and his company all the best!
Smart man! But why does he keep saying YOLO?
+PentaxSource You Know...
+EEVblog Yay I guessed correctly! :)
+EEVblog And there I thought the reason why he started the company was "Yolo"
+PentaxSource Chinese are also using filler "you know" in their language. It sounds like "nee-da" and can be heard pretty often during their talk.
+PentaxSource YOLO - You Only Live Once... LOL
I think it is awesome for Mr Qin to come on here for what seems to have been an impromptu interview. I find it nice to learn a little more about how a company came about and grew to a successful international business. Great job on the interview Dave. Thank you.
Great video! He has a strong accent but hats off to him for speaking english quite well - My wife is learning Chinese and the two languages are very different. Anyone that is a CEO, electronics engineer, and can speak another language as well is inspirational in my mind.
My brain is stuck hearing him say "YOLO", now i can't figure out what he's really saying, I hate when that happens.
+John McLaren me too
+John McLaren same here
+klarusboy YOU KNOW, maybe?
At least he didn't say "WALAVAR" whatever that means :)
+John McLaren Use CC. I had to do it. As you, yolo stopped me from understanding him at all.
Great interview. I think Yolo is You Know. The CEO did very well and top marks to Dave for restraining himself and doing a dignified interview.
This interview makes me want to buy Siglent equipment. Fantastic CEO, I am very impressed that he wasn't overly secretive.
Excellent Interview. This guy is inspiring. I love the fact that his success is based on engineering knowledge and hard work, not just on being ignorant employer. Yolo from Poland.
That was really interesting to get some insight from Eric. What a really "down to earth" guy for a CEO! Thanks for the video Dave and Eric - I enjoyed the interview very much!
Really enjoyed that...kudos to Mr. Qin for participating in Dave's show. As a hobbyist looking at upgrading my lab, I will definitely give Siglent a long eval. I really like Mr. Qin's company goal to provide every engineer with good equipment at good cost.
Dave, excellent interview. Have become aware of Siglent capabilities thanks to your videos.
Upgraded my lab with Siglent DMM, AWG, and Scope for my HW design consulting business. Also recommended a Siglent scope to a customer to perform their own measurements. Previously, I've been in 3 startups and only one had a CEO that reminded me of Mr. Qin. Interestingly that was the only successful one. We went public in 2007 and then was bought out by a competitor (behemoth) in 2010 that took 5 yrs to get us off the market while recovering their investment. Gives me hope that not all CEOs are cynical greedy sociopaths.
Quite an nteresting interview Dave! It's thought provoking to hear from the founder of a company who was very much involved with the design of his original products, and has now moved into new and different areas of responsibility. Many thanks to Mr. Qin for his willingness to visit the lab and speak.
That was really very nice. Makes me immediately look up SIglent products and it was informative! This is a whole new level for the EEVBLOG! Excited to see what comes next!
Very interesting interview. It's always a good sign when a CEO comes face to face for his products in a simple way, as did Mr. Eric Qin. After seeing this interview I consulted siglent's website in Europe and ordered a laboratory power supply.
Congratulations for your initiative.
What an excellent and fascinating interview, Dave. Eric comes across as a genuinely nice bloke, and I thank him for sharing his time and insights with us.
I really enjoyed this, thank you for interviewing Mr. Qin. Great guy!
That must have been great to interview someone in that sorta position Dave thank you so much for making this happen!
Very good interview, Dave. Thanks to you and Eric Qin for this.
I will feel fortunate if a good soul make captions for this video.
+Thiago Coura yes, its unfortunate that it's costing me a lot to fully understand him, in any case, i think it's very very cool that a CEO takes the time to visit a video blogger, shows how YT has become an important tool for manufacturers
+Guillermo Lovato this is a commercial
enable youtube captions and laugh your ass off
Captions yes please. I could only watch a few minutes as vey hard for me to understand.
Captions are now available! +Thiago Coura I supplied a captions file and they've been added now. Enjoy!
I got out of the business of purchasing test equipment in 2005, and wasn't familiar with Siglent until seeing your tear downs. This was an interesting change of pace. It would be great to see you interview hardware or software engineers in the future.
Well done Eric on coming on the EEVBlog and talking about Siglent. It was an interesting interview and you did a lot better with your English than we would have done with our Chinese.
He certainly comes across as a very genuine 'engineer' type - customer focused, understanding what he is selling. I thought he gave a good answer to the 2nd hand market question..
Great interview, very impressed with Mr Qin and his company and product knowledge, always good to see , and dare I say it , refreshing from upper management. Created a very favourable impression for me of the company as a whole.
This is exactly the attitude, direction and foundation that Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started out with.
All my gear is HP, Fluke and Hitachi but I will certainly examine & consider Siglent products if this guy is for real.
First of. Thank-you Dave and Thank-you Eric Qin. I really liked the interview. Yes as an English only speaker it was not perfect. However the products are great and I can not speak Chinese so this was a 1000 x better than me learning or trying to understand his native tong. Mr. Eric Qin I truly respect all your effort and wish you the best of success, thank-you again.
I love this man. Great interview Dave. It's really interesting to see engineering in the other side of the globe as well as get to talk to a CEO.
Really interesting interview, Eric Qin and Dave, thanks for making it happen! :)
I'm in the market for a new scope, and will definitely look at Siglent, in no small part due to this interview, Dave.
Dave amazing job, superb question. You are a inspiration to many... Thank You very very much for all the videos, and please keep them coming Zdenek (Slovakia)
I think this is great. Why is everyone bashing a Chinese company that is trying to have a social presence in the United States? The more involved a company is with its customers, the more inclined those customers are to buy a product and the more inclined the company is to provide a high quality product. My Siglent oscilloscope for the price is really a very decent quality. I praise this company.
THANK YOU to whoever did the captions!!
It's great to see a CEO to visit Dave and the lab!
Thanks for the interview, I just stumble on this video you had with the CEO of Siglent, I feel very confident to buy my first Siglent scope when I see the CEO him self back then is a designer and now he trusts his engineering team to move forward. I have a hard time with his english so subtitle was accurate helpful, yours questions were gracefully dismissed but overall the guy spoke in truth because as an engineer myself, I can smell BS miles away.
I met Eric personally few years ago, it is great that he worked
his way to CEO from engineer. His spirit is key to Siglent domination in the future.
Terrific interview, thanks Dave and Eric. Great questions and I really liked the way you actively listened to Eric's responses. A company's culture is driven from the top down and if Siglent continues to reflect Eric Qin's values in its products and customer service they will be a well deserved number one in the test equipment market one of these days.
You're a fantastic interviewer, Dave! This was a great video. Thanks!
Sold! I just ordered mine. Good job Eric you have a new fan. :)
You could have done a teardown together! It would be great to see what this kind of person would have to say.
+lodevijk
He he nice idea. :D
Great interview! Would love to see more of these.
A lot of respect for a CEO to actually visit and talk to actual users, and especially actually about knowing so much technical detail about his products. Most CEOs are marketing or business graduates, but he is actually a real engineer, who knows excatly how everything works. His accent also actually becomes very understandable about a quarter of the video in. If I ever need to buy a oscilloscope, it will be Siglent.
"yolo", epic simply epic, this man is wise, such simple but deep words...truly the key of his success
Very inspiring interview! Thanks!
If you want to understand why there is such a thing as software limitations given a single hardware platform, imagine producing something complex like a scope. You buy components in bulk to reduce cost. By limiting bandwidth in software, you allow say a 50MHz scope to sell at a lower price point for the hobbyist market. At the same time a company can sell the same hardware to another high end market at a higher cost... How else do you cover all bases and recover r and d cost? 100+ engineers working around the clock for several years? Yeah, it adds up. Put yourself in their shoes. They're not out to screw anyone, they're in a business to make money and I think they're doing a damn fine job catering to the hobbyist market with a modest profit margin. Good for you Dave in having him on the show.
Btw, YOLO!
+Liam Baker I can see that. In practice it makes sense to maintain one branch of hardware and/or software development to keep things simple. I work on a global software team using an svn server to update and commit code and we always try to keep to a single trunk and never branch without good reason. We work on dozens of different hardware platforms (robots) with different kinematics and its just easier to maintain with a single core or kernel. Same goes for hardware - luckily I'm the only hardware dev guy, but even then I have a hard time keeping track of all the changes. I try to keep the same core across all products.
Those chip designer guys I'm sure follow the same logic. It takes a couple of months to get a design through the fab, maybe a month if they run a super-hot prioritized lot, and typically a lower yield until the process is dialed in. That's a lot of cash, so better to design in options from the beginning! And its worth mentioning that some of those lower yield chips towards the edge of the wafer can still be useful, though they might be slightly out of spec. I heard back in the day that Radio Shack used to resell edge yield stuff (eh crap) that would otherwise be scrapped. Don't know how true that actually is, but I wouldn't be surprised at fabs trying to squeeze every last penny out of a wafer.
you know YOLO? it was quite bold to go to the EEVBLOG. Respect.
I like his straightforward answers. :)
Yolo!
Great interview. Great questions. This guy had a lot of balls exposing himself to non-screened questions and did a great job answering them.
Fair play to him for coming on the blog. Bit tricky to follow but very interesting. Good job Dave.
....Impressive history with his company, great interview.........
This CEO looks like a very smart, knowledgeable and nice guy... I ordered PCB's from China ;just sent them the files and in less than a week I had the PCB's at my door.China is serious about business, thanks to this guy I am the proud owner of a SSA3021X-TC SA at a fraction of a price...Hats off.. Just got my SHS810 handheld o'scope!
That was a great episode! Please do more business oriented stuff if possible. Getting that tech & business perspective is really good to know.
Beside the language barrier that many peoples have in this planet, he seems to be a nice person to deliver YOLO.
thanks for the captions dave!! had a hard time trying to understand it .. great interview
Excellent interview, enjoyed it...
I will look at Siglent more favourably in the future...
Woow, I am so impressed by the quality of the information wey received here this great. Great questions and great Eric. Thank you so much. Regards from México.
Love how there's always some people that freak out about an accent.
Enjoyed the interview thank you. It was very interesting that all his engineers were Chinese, and he seemed surprised when you asked about foreign engineers.
Also the wages going up, boom time in China!
Sheesh! That was hard work in places, but worth it! Lots of interesting information in there, just took a bit of effort on my part to pick it up!
Well done, Dave-o!
I am very impressed with the amount of gross being spent on R&D, I also have respect for people who have a strong engineering background in what ever they are selling. Hope they do well, I will be taking more notice of their products.
Thank's for this interview Dave!
Nice to see a CEO who was an engineer. That worked well for HP until they switched to non engineer leaders.
Just to clarify things up... In central China (Hubei, Henan, etc.), people often have trouble differentiating L and N sounds. So what happens is that they pronounce N sounds as L. This is just their dialect. It is noticeable not only when they speak English, but also when they speak Mandarin. That's why he's pronouncing You Low, instead of You Know.
I just ordered a 1202x-e yesterday because of the value.. The thing that put me over the top wasn't the 200mhz, it was that the decoding features that others charge for were included. Best decision they made. And thanks to EEVblog for all the information Dave provides in his videos. Having videos like these certainly play a large role in Siglent's success. Not sure I would have even heard of Siglent if it wasn't for this channel.
He's saying You Know not yolo and he's speaking very good English, far better than I or most others could ever speak Chinese.
Dave, thanks for this interview. Very interesting that as CEO, Eric Qin is not concerned about possible revenue loss due to firmware hacking to enable better performance.
i just bought a siglent scope based on your teardown, im very happy with it..
Great video Dave, was a really interesting conversation. Would love to see more like this with engineers from other companies int he field.
What a sport that guy was.
Since this man has the moxy and guts to be interviewed, plus the fact that he has opened his US presence right here in Ohio, giving employment to Ohioans means it's a slam dunk for me that I will be buying his equipment.
Nice one Eric!! thanks for sharing.
I bought one of his scopes after comparing a lot and also from Dave's opinions on them. I am a hobbyist/experimenter and didn't have big bucks to drop on a scope. I love my Siglent! Great interview Dave!
Respect. Well done Eric.
Had to put my headset on, that was a rough ride. But respect to you both for having eachother.
It's great to gain a little insight into how these products are made. They are amazing value for money - so much complexity behind such a friendly interface.
Very interesting insight to Siglent, thanks for the interview Dave! Great to see that CEO has time for this kind of interview. For those commenting his thick accent, you should hear when Finnish businessmen try to speak English ;)
I am even more proud to own my Siglent gear now after watching this interview. Very nice job Dave, you asked every single question I would have asked if I were there. Gotta love companies run by engineers and keep true to their objectives. I LOVED THIS VID.
Amazing intreview! Questions asked right on point!
Siglent equipment is amazing especially for students as myself :)
Dave: So why did you start Siglent?
Eric Qin: YOLO....
That's how many companies are started, I guess :D
Great interview. Thank you Dave.
Excellent questions, Dave.
Dave, you should try to do this sort of thing more often!
You know, this was a really good interview dave, thanks!
Hats off to him for agreeing to appear on your channel. For a company of only 300 odd people they are doing very well.
Very interesting. Very smart man with a good vision.
Fantastic video Dave!!
This man speaks English much better than the vast majority of you speak Chinese I suspect.
I always knew Siglent was founded on the principle of YOLO
Wow high respect for this C-level Mr. Qin for being willing to visit you
Dave. I think it is a really good thing that owners and higher
management of tech brands listen and socialize with the users en
techies, both will have profit out of this IMO.
His accent is heavy but I can understand him without an extra effort
+Alperen Akküncü YOLO!
I'm working for international company and his accent is acceptable comparing to my colleague's from china :D I got after two sentence's that's yellow is "you know" :D
+BFX chanel wow really?
+Alperen Akküncü I agree. I find it amazing that these guys can communicate so well in english! that's one more language that me
+Jack Johnston I study engineering. I tried so hard to perfect my english, but from the looks of it, accent is not a really big issue in the industry. Well, it is a relief. Now I can just chill and focus on other stuff.
Dave---you really go to the top---congrats on a great interview !!
I have an siglent scoop and function generator and I'm very satisfied with them. the cost to quality is very good.
I think its realllyyy cool you got him into the lab for an interview!!!
Wow Thank you Eric and Dave,