Asianometry

The Japanese-American Translators of World War II

CATLs Sodium-Ion Battery: Better than Lithium?

Microfluidics and the Elusive Lab-on-a-Chip

Indias Big Bet on Sodium Ion Batteries

The 2nd Taiwan Strait Crisis and Khrushchevs Offense; Part 1

The Qing Conquest of China: The Battle of Shanhaiguan

Shaw Brothers: King of Hong Kong Cinema

The 2nd Taiwan Strait Crisis and Khrushchevs Offense; Part 2

Can TSMC Make Enough Chips?

Samsung Foundry vs TSMC

A Peek into Southern Taiwan’s Tech Scene

How TSMC Builds a $19 Billion Fab

STMicroelectronics: The Turnaround That Created a European Semiconductor Giant

How Bo Xilai Governed the Megacity of Chongqing

Why Brain-like Computers Are Hard

Why North Korea Starves

AI’s Hardware Problem

The First Neural Networks

Broadcom: The $600 Billion AI Chip Giant

How ASML Builds a $150 Million EUV Machine

Toyota Stunned America with the Lexus LS 400

When the KMT Came to Taiwan

How China Built a Semiconductor Industry

Chinas 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2

How Colonial Singapore got to be so Chinese

Hikvision, Explained: China’s Surveillance Tech Titan

The Big Semiconductor Water Problem

Indias Fintech Success: Unified Payments Interface

Can You Do 7nm Chips Without EUV?

The 3-D Transistor Transition

What Goes On Inside a Semiconductor Wafer Fab

The History of Superconductors (Before LK-99)

Tokyo Electron: Japan’s Biggest Semiconductor Equipment Maker

Why Taiwanese Aren’t Making Babies

Will Young Americans Want to Work in Semiconductor Manufacturing?

ASMLs High-NA EUV Lithography: A 2024 Update

Nvidias Computational Lithography Breakthrough

“The Decision of the Century”: Choosing EUV Lithography

What ASML Has Next After EUV

How Nvidia Won AI

EUV Lithography. But With a Free Electron Laser

ASMLs High-NA and Hyper-NA EUV: An Update

Why Every 3nm Process Node is Different

Japans Worst Political Corruption Scandal

Can SRAM Keep Shrinking?

Chinese Money Laundering and Global Real Estate

The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Japanese Whisky (& Suntory)

The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall.

How the Rich Ate Moldova

LK-99 Wouldnt Have Changed Semiconductors Anyway

The History of the FPGA: The Ultimate Flex