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Asianometry
By Jon YTechnology
Asianometry episodes
- The Remarkable Computers Built Not to FailIn 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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47 min - High-Five to the Belgrade HandThe 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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18 min - Delta Electronics: Taiwan’s Power Supply GiantDelta 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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25 min - Looking Back on 2025Is 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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10 min - China’s Bonkers Bike-share BubbleChinese 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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51 min - Ternary Computing: Theoretically Better than DigitalRecently, 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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0 min - Japanese Peril Created the InternetFamously, 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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33 min - From Wheat to Cherries in ChileChile’s central valley is one of the world’s most bountiful - blessed with rich soils and plentiful sunshine. Early in its history, Chile’s agriculture sector was transformed by a wheat boom in the 1800s. Then those wheat markets dried up - sending the country into a prolonged period of economic and social turmoil. Over time, Chile recovered to become one of the world’s top exporters of apples, blueberries, kiwifruits, plums and of course, cherries. In today’s video, Chile’s agricultural journey from wheat to cherries.
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23 min - Legends of the RISC WarsIt began in the 1970s, with rumors rumbling from the outskirts of the American technology giant, IBM. A new chip architecture capable of revolutionary processing speeds. It was called RISC. The RISC Wars were fought over nearly 20 years, with the most intensive battles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At its peak, it involved a mix of young chip upstarts and old giants across the world throwing around benchmark results. Sun Microsystems. MIPS Computer. PA-RISC. IBM. PowerPC. DEC Alpha. Fujitsu and NEC in Japan. Siemens and Philips in Europe. And of course, looming over them all: Intel and the burgeoning Wintel Death Machine. It was a time of shifting alliances, leaps of inspiration, wild technical claims, and the Iron Fist of Intel. Today, we delve into legends of the RISC Wars.
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40 min - A Quiet Chinese Mobile Giant in AfricaTranssion (傳音控股) is a Shenzhen company that has quietly grown a mobile phone empire in Africa. They are so low key that in January 2016, a Shenzhen government official remarked that he hadn’t known that a Chinese company was doing so well in Africa. After 15+ years, Transsion has sold hundreds of millions of phones in the continent thanks to smart products and good distribution. But changes are afoot. Competition is intensifying. And it is pushing them out of their comfort zone. In today’s video, let us talk about a unique Chinese mobile phone giant in Africa: Transsion.
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Newsletter for the Asianometry channel. Studies on Asia - Financials, semiconductors, history, demography, development and other stuff.
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