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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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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24min
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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20min
February 13, 2025 Nissan Motors’ Likely End
In late December 2024, Nissan announced a plan to merge with Honda. Well, they are calling it a merger. But it is more like a takeover. A shotgun marriage hastily arranged by the Japanese government to save a spiraling company left behind by the times. Again. Nissan's story has been up and down, up and down. But this latest ride down looks to finally be the end. In this video, a look at Nissan's tumble back down the stairs.
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25min
February 10, 2025 The iPhone Was 3G's Killer App
2G GSM was one of the most successful things to ever come out of Europe's technology sector, so when the next generation came around, everyone bought into the wireless hype. Billions of dollars spent buying spectrum, which led to a big crash and then a slow 3G rollout. Everyone wondered how the telecoms could ever make back the billions spent on a 3G investment. What could ever be big enough? In this video, we relive the 3G wars, the 3G crash, and the Jesus phone that brought them all back to life.
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February 06, 2025 DeepSeek’s Lessons for Chinese AI
I apologize for adding yet another DeepSeek video to your video queue. During a trip to Tokyo last year, I was told that DeepSeek was the real deal. A cracked team, and perhaps the only ones of significance in China. Since then, I have annoyed the guys on Transistor Radio - our podcast with Dylan Patel and Doug O'Laughlin - into talking about it. Though there was nothing much to be said. In December 2024, DeepSeek released their V3 base model, which had impressive efficiency. A few people in AI were impressed. Then on January 22nd 2025, DeepSeek released their reasoning model, R1, which works kind of like OpenAI's o1 and o3 models. It takes extra compute time to "think" up a better answer. R1's release kicked everything off. The next day, the New York Times published an article on it, but focused mostly on the earlier V3's training costs.
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17min
February 02, 2025 The Rise and First Death of Nissan Motor
Throughout most of Japan's automotive history, there were two companies in the lead: Toyota and Nissan. Everyone talks about Toyota. They are the unquestioned giant and the champion of Japanese cars. But what about Nissan? How did they come about? The history of Nissan Motor is a fascinating reflection of a world-famous industry. In today’s video, the rise and first death of Nissan Motor.
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28min
January 30, 2025 A Chaebol’s Fast Rise and Even Faster Fall
South Korea's Yulsan Group (율산그룹) really speed-ran the rise and fall of a business empire. Founded in 1975 with nothing. Two years later, $165 million in export revenue. 14 subsidiaries, 8,000 employees. A year after that, bankrupt. In this video, the story of a chaebol. They never even made it five years.
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18min
January 26, 2025 Japan’s Semiconductor Photoresist Monopoly
Japan doesn’t dominate semiconductor fabrication or lithography machines like it once did. But they still keep a mighty grip on the supply chain, particularly one very special chemical. The photoresist is often ignored, we just kind of offhandedly mention it at the end there. But without question, it is the most important chemical of the lithography process. Literally indispensable. Some 90% of this market is held by Japanese companies like JSR and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, amongst others. One of those companies is today state-owned. In this video, we examine the many generations of photoresist used by the industry and Japan's low-key monopoly of it.
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32min
January 19, 2025 Toshiba's Nuclear Annihilation
In 2006, Toshiba paid $5 billion for Westinghouse Electric. America's premier nuclear energy company, one of the founders of the industry. The acquisition and subsequent build of four new nuclear power reactors ruined them. A 140 year old company. One of Japan’s proudest. Now torn apart. In this video, we look at perhaps the worst acquisition in Japanese corporate history.
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53min
January 16, 2025 How the Chaebol Crashed South Korea in 1997
In the thirty years before 1997, real GDP in the Republic of Korea grew an average of 8.1% a year. By this measure, South Korea grew faster than almost every other developing country at the time. A powerful economic engine drove this growth - a delicate coordination between the government and its business elites. In 1997, that engine went out of balance and drove the country into a ditch. In this video, we look at how South Korea and its Chaebol fell into economic crisis.
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