Asianometry

By Jon Y

Newsletter for the Asianometry channel. Studies on Asia - Financials, semiconductors, history, demography, development and other stuff.... more

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January 25, 2026 Toshiba’s Breakthrough Laptop PC
In the early 1980s, portable computers were either one of two categories. Big and functional. Or small and basic. And while there were successes within each category, you can hardly identify them as today’s modern laptops. Then in 1985, the Japanese company Toshiba releases a ground-breaking laptop PC that brings it all together for the first time. In today’s video, let us look back at the first commercially successful laptop PC: The Toshiba T1100 and its successors.
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23min
January 22, 2026 Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard
In the movie “Diamonds are Forever”, James Covalent Bond is chasing some missing South African diamonds. He discovers that his nemesis Blofeld is cooking up an evil plot to use those diamonds for a big space laser that he intended to auction off. I find the plot impractical. Blofeld should have instead concentrated his criminal organization’s resources on developing diamond transistors! Had he succeeded, he might have reaped far greater profits than with some silly space laser. In this video, we look at a very hard gate.
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22min
January 18, 2026 How Westinghouse Lost its Way
Founded in 1886, Westinghouse Electric grew to be one of America’s industrial giants. Second only to General Electric. In August 1998, the company sold off its industrial and power generation businesses and became a media company. How did such a titan so badly stumble and lose its way? We like the simple answers. Managers were greedy. They took their eyes off the ball. Dive into the history, and things get a bit murkier. In today’s video, we discuss how Westinghouse Electric lost its way.
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35min
January 11, 2026 The Remarkable Computers Built Not to Fail
In the late 1970s, Tandem Computers exploded onto the scene with a remarkable product. Computers designed and built not to fail. The Tandem NonStop. With their legendary reliability, Tandem’s computers ran in banks, market exchanges, and critical industries. In this video, the rise and fall of Tandem Computers. And yes they are still around today.
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47min
January 08, 2026 High-Five to the Belgrade Hand
The human hand has 35 actuators or muscles for producing movement. 19 of which are inside the hand - responsible for fine movements like bringing the fingers together or pulling them apart. The other 16 are located outside the hand, but extend into it via tendons. These provide power for gripping and lifting. Scientists can reproduce at least some of the hand’s physical elements and capabilities. But the rub has been control. How do we convey to the prosthetic all the complicated movements behind a “simple” gesture like grasping? In the early 1960s, a Yugoslav scientist from the well-known Mihajlo Pupin Institute named Rajko Tomović looked to biology for a solution. He leveraged his findings to create arguably the first autonomous robotic hand. Certainly the first such five-fingered robotic hand. And it was capable of precision tasks that might surprise you. In today’s video, we profile a series of pioneering robotic prosthetics from Communist Yugoslavia: The Belgrade Hands.
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January 04, 2026 Delta Electronics: Taiwan’s Power Supply Giant
Delta Electronics (台達電子) is a Taiwanese company in the power management and energy efficiency space. With $14 billion in sales and a $80 billion market cap, Delta is as of this writing Taiwan’s third most valuable company behind only TSMC and Foxconn. The stock has skyrocketed 150% so far this year. Guess why? Hint it starts with “A” and ends with “I”. Delta’s climb to its current heights took over half a century. In this video, we talk about a quiet Taiwanese power supply giant.
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25min
December 28, 2025 Looking Back on 2025
Is it really true? Has another year passed? I cannot believe it. That song is right. The years keep coming and they don’t stop coming. I guess we have a bit of a tradition. With 2026 looming ahead, I want to take a little time and reflect on the past year.
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December 21, 2025 China’s Bonkers Bike-share Bubble
Chinese state media hailed it as one of China’s “Four Great Inventions” of modern times. Today, what most people remember are the graveyards. Or the thousands of bikes left on streets and public areas. In less than a year, 70+ bike-share startups burned billions of dollars to put 20+ million bikes on Chinese streets. It was insane. It was unsustainable. Oh boy. In this video, we dive into the bonkers Chinese bike-share bubble of 2017-2018.
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December 18, 2025 Ternary Computing: Theoretically Better than Digital
Recently, people have been thinking about trits. And I don’t mean the Costa Rican ice cream sandwich. Meaning ternary or base three compute. A three-value logic scheme different from the two-value binary logic we are so familiar with. A few months ago, it made the rounds when news broke that Huawei patented a ternary computing circuit that can do AI. Ternary logic has been explored for a long time. Most famously during the 1960s in the Soviet Union with the SETUN computer. Trits have certain inherent benefits over bits. At least theoretically. In today’s video, a highly requested topic. We explore ternary computing.
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December 14, 2025 Japanese Peril Created the Internet
Famously, we trace the Internet to ARPANET, a research network built for the US defense agency DARPA. But in the 1960s and 70s, ARPANET was just one of several computer networks operating around the world. And while it had users and cool technical innovations, it was a research tool. And it wasn’t growing particularly fast. How did that turn into the capital-I Internet? We can blame - in part - Japanese supercomputers. In today’s video, we explore the Japanese peril that brought us the Internet.
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