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March 23, 2025 Xiaomi is Why Apple Should Have Made a Car
Xiaomi roared onto global tech scene, raising the bar on what a Chinese smartphone should be. But when the phone market matured, the company executed a daring strategy shift. And then in March 2021, they announced they would make a freakin' EV. They did it. In this video, the rise of Xiaomi, its turnaround, its ride into EVs, and Apple.
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40 min
March 20, 2025 The Once-Mighty Soviet Fishing Fleet
The Soviet Union once controlled what was perhaps the world's mightiest fishing fleet. A wolf pack of ships moving around the world, fishing the nations' oceans and emptying them of life. The second half of the 20th century saw the industrialization of the fishing industry. And the Soviets were right in the thick of that. In this video, we talk the once-mighty Soviet fishing fleet and the industrialization of fishing.
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24 min
March 16, 2025 What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002?
Starting in the early 2000s, reports emerged of abnormal numbers of PC motherboards with leaking or even popping capacitors. A victim said in a newspaper interview that he turned on his computer one morning and suddenly heard a loud POP, like a distant firework. Other reports mention a weird, fishy smell in the air. The OS goes black and the computer fails to reboot. Most inexperienced people have no idea what to do except to bring it to a repair shop. Open it up, and inside you might find that a little cylinder on the board had swollen or even burst. This happened a lot. Why? In this video, we look at the infamous Capacitor Plague. We will never know what exactly happened, but let's try.
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23 min
March 09, 2025 Why the Chips Get Hot
Today's leading edge chips get hot. Like really hot. And nowadays much work is being done to try and keep them from getting TOO hot. Fancy things like dipping the whole chip into water or oil. But why do the chips get hot? And how does that heat spread? Simple question right? In this video, we explore heat at nanometer scale. Easier video ever.
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19 min
March 06, 2025 4G LTE: One Standard To Rule Them All
Remember how it used to be that we had to worry about whether we had a Verizon or AT&T iPhone? And that the AT&T iPhone was the one that you can use abroad? While the Verizon one was just for America? Wasn't that weird? Now we don't have to worry about that. Because when we moved to 4G, the world chose a single global wireless standard: LTE. After the bruising battles of 3G, 4G LTE's dominance came far more smoothly. In this video, we look at how 4G LTE won the wireless world.
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23 min
March 02, 2025 The Special Solar Cells That Go Up Into Space
The CHIPS Act is now disbursing awards and signing deals. One recent grant that caught my eye was awarded to the New Zealand-American space company Rocket Lab. The grant of up to $23.9 million is for the modernization and expansion of the company's fab in New Mexico, which produces space-grade solar cells. I have not heard of Rocket Lab until recently ... though it seems like the folks in the stock-trading world certainly have. But the idea of "space grade" solar cells was interesting to me. So this video is a simple one. Solar cells. In Space. Nuff said.
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24 min
February 27, 2025 Sending Signals like Neurons Do (At the Edge of Chaos)
A few weeks ago a Patreon member sent me a paper titled "Axon-like active signal transmission" by a team at Texas A&M, Stanford, and Sandia National Laboratories. The paper discusses how the team recently transmitted a signal in an experiment. Big whoop, right? But the way they transmitted this signal is interesting because it mimics how neurons do it - self-amplification without additional devices. This result also involves a theory named the "edge of chaos". Now who can ignore that? In this brief video, I want to check out how they sent a signal through a wire.
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15 min
February 23, 2025 Why Was Japan So "Good" at Semiconductors?
In 1973, the legendary head of National Semiconductor, Charlie Sporck RIP, told analysts in Los Angeles that the Japanese were "coming down the pike". He was not wrong. In the nine years from 1975 to 1984, Japan doubled their share of the integrated circuit industry from 19% to 38%. Famously, by 1986, just three of eleven American DRAM memory makers were left still in business. But more than just numbers, Japan's rise struck fear in the very heart of American capitalism. It led the country to deeply reflect on how they conducted their own way of business. Looking back at it now, the hysteria is hard to believe. Were the Japanese really that good at semiconductors? No, but I can see why people thought so. In this video, we explore the question: Why was Japan so "good" at semiconductors?
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19 min
February 20, 2025 The Birth and Glory of Swedish Computers
In the late 1950s, Sweden briefly had the world’s fastest computer. And then in the 1960s, they produced computers good enough to beat even the vaunted IBM. An amazing start. Sweden might have been the computing leader of Europe. But unfortunately, that did not last. In this video we look at the birth and glory of Swedish-made computers with the story of Datasaab. I promise to only make one IKEA joke.
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24 min
February 16, 2025 How Indonesian Instant Noodles Became a Nigerian Sensation
Despite the area cuisine not being particularly known for wheat, Indonesia is the world's second biggest consumer of instant noodles. In 2023, they ate 14.5 billion servings according to the World Instant Noodles Association. 99% of its 285 million people have eaten it at one time or the other. There is another name on this list that kind of sticks out: Nigeria. What? Turns out - and this came as a surprise to me too - but the Indonesian noodle brand Indomie is super popular there. It is likely the single most popular packaged food in all of Africa. So popular it occasionally shows up in rap lyrics. How did that happen? In this video, we look at how a noodle brand from Indonesia became a sensation in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.
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20 min

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