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Asianometry
By Jon YTechnology
Asianometry episodes
- Saudi Arabia's Crazy Wheat Self-Sufficiency PolicySaudi Arabia had long known that it had a weakness: Food. Seeking to end its dependency on food imports, Saudi Arabia in 1980 embarked on a massive self-sufficiency program fueled by oil money and fossil water. That program eventually focused on a single water thirsty crop: Wheat. Things got a bit out of control. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Saudi Arabia pumped more groundwater than oil. And 5% of the entire 1991 Saudi budget was being spent on growing more wheat than anyone can eat. In today's video, a noble policy with long-running water consequences.
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23 min - How the Computer Helped the Boeing 787 SoarThe 787 is a fascinating machine. Conceived for a changing, rapidly digitizing world, it leveraged new materials and emerging computational methods to produce unprecedented gains. In today’s video, an techno-economic exploration of what brought about the 787 and its challenging design. And how the computer helped it soar.
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21 min - AT&T’s UNIX PC FailureIt was going to be the year of the UNIX desktop. On March 27th 1984, the telephone giant AT&T announced that they will make computers and compete with IBM. At the centerpiece of AT&T's market strategy was the legendary operating system, UNIX. Powerful and “open”, AT&T saw UNIX as key to beating Big Blue. A year later, they released their first UNIX PC. Guess what happened next? In today's video, that time AT&T attempted to use UNIX to become a computer company.
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35 min - Chilling Chips: A Computer Cooling ChronicleIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a computer in possession of a hot chip, must be in want of a good cooling system. The problem of cooling has been an issue for as long as computers existed, and tightly intertwines with semiconductor history. To riff off a very famous computer designer who shall appear later, it begins with scientists and ends with plumbers. In today's video, a whirlwind tour of the many methods we have employed over the years to keep our computers cool.
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29 min - The Sinking of Sanyo ElectricIn the early 2000s, the Japanese press referred to Sony, Sanyo and Sharp as the 3S. Sanyo has this fascinating history. A ubiquitous Japanese electronics brand I saw all the time growing up. The company rode a wave of economic growth and globalization. But like other Japanese companies of this first generation, they failed to adapt. In today's video, the life and times of Sanyo.
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28 min - The Japanese Bought US SteelIn June 2025, Nippon Steel acquired US Steel, with the US government retaining a "Golden Share". Nippon Steel first announced the $14.9 billion acquisition back in December 2023. And the Japanese steel giant has pursued the deal despite competing American bids, union disapproval, and seemingly insurmountable political opposition. US Steel was once the world's biggest steel company and remains America's third largest steelmaker. They now face considerable challenges. Nippon Steel was also once the world's largest steel company. And they now face substantial challenges. The two are now together. In this video, Nippon Steel's historic acquisition of US Steel.
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25 min - How Brazil Learned to Drill its Deepwater OilUnlike other state-owned oil giants like Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco or Norway's Equinor...Brazil’s Petrobras was founded without meaningful oil reserves. Bit strange isn't it? But for decades, Brazilians believed that their country had oil. And they persisted in that belief despite words and data saying otherwise. And their faith was rewarded! Turns out there was oil in Brazil. It just wasn't on land. In this video, how Brazil learned to drill its deepwater oil.
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35 min - MIMO Made Mobile Magnificent With MultipathsBefore smartphones, there was little interest in mobile wireless broadband. Mobile operators only had to carry voice signals and a low data rate of 8-10 kilobits per second was more than enough for that. So from 1G to 3G, operators focused instead on improving their economics, by increasing how many calls can be made within a particular cell with the same amount of spectrum. Then in the mid-2000s came the smartphone, which turned wireless broadband into a real customer demand. Which meant drastically raising data transfer rates. But how are operators going to do that without buying vast sums of bandwidth? Or pumping huge amounts of power into the signal? What the industry devised and adopted was deviously clever. In this video, the story of Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output or MIMO.
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24 min - China's Breakout DRAM BeastDRAM has been the graveyard of semiconductor empires. Competing in this market is not for the faint of heart. After decades, the DRAM industry consolidated to just three big companies: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. But now they are being challenged by a new kid on the block. A Chinese DRAM monster emerging out of Hefei: ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT (長鑫存儲). In today's video, we profile the third of the People's Republic of China's semiconductor titans: CXMT.
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20 min - A Great Water Battery on a HillSolar and wind are some of the fastest growing energy sources. One problem is that they are intermittent. It is not always windy and the sun sets. Seasons change, cutting daylight hours. So on. To deal with this, we need a way to store electricity for use during times of peak demand: Energy storage. In this video, a simple and reliable energy storage scheme that has been used for decades and is now somewhat back in vogue. A lake up on a hill.
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About Asianometry
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Newsletter for the Asianometry channel. Studies on Asia - Financials, semiconductors, history, demography, development and other stuff.
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