vishay re: explaining the joke
vishay is.... weird
they made some of the highest quality resistors you could get on their own originally, but they also bought out a *lot* of other really prestigious companies
so you have Vishay Sprague making capacitors, Vishay Dale making resistors, Vishay Beyschlag/Draloric/BC Components making other resistors, Vishay Siliconix making transistors, Vishay Sfernice making relays
-F