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151022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. I get it. Everyone wants to talk about EUV. It's the sexiest lithography around with all the mirrors and the purple UV light. But I think we shouldn't discount 193 nanometer immersion lithography. Coming about in the early 2000s, it has taken the industry further than anyone could have ever expected. 193i as it is sometimes called is still a workhorse and at the core of many leading edge process nodes. For this video, I want to look at how it works and the challenges overcome in developing it. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

131022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In 2010, after 25 years, the ATI brand was phased out. Replaced by its owner AMD. ATI was a survivor. They started off in Toronto. Far from Silicon Valley, but somehow thrived and started making graphics accelerators. They transitioned from 2D to 3D, competed head to head with market leader Nvidia, struck a deal with Nintendo, and survived the graphics card wars. What a journey! In this video, I want to take a look back at ATI. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

081022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this video, let's take a look at the Soviet Union's nuclear icebreakers, and the crushing impact they had in opening up the Arctic shipping routes. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

031022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Beautifully made with 2,300 crafted parts, the Facit mechanical calculator first entered the market in 1932. And for the next forty years it basically stayed the same. The Swedish company that made it, Facit, employed thousands of people around the world to build and sell them. Then over the span of just two years, they went from millions of dollars in profit to annihilation. In this video, we are going to talk about a faded Swedish icon. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

011022 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this video, I want to talk about how today's latest leading edge semiconductor process nodes are made. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

260922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Australia is the world's leading exporter of liquefied natural gas or LNG. In 2020, the country exported $25 billion worth of natural gas to markets in Asia. Interestingly enough, the country also occasionally suffers from natural gas shortages in their own markets at home. It is a demonstration of the country's sprawling size, bountiful natural resources, and complicated energy politics. In this video, I want to talk about how the land down under became one of the world’s biggest natural gas exporters. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

240922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. At its peak, Daewoo Group had been Korea's fourth largest business conglomerate along with Hyundai, Samsung, and LG. The sprawling company rocketed upwards on the back of a favorable political environment and heaps of debt. Then in a shocking two year span, the whole group broke apart under the weight of its liabilities, a crushing recession, and widespread fraud. Daewoo's collapse tarnished the legacy of founder and chairman Kim Woo-Choong, who had to flee the country until he received a pardon. In this video, we will look at the rapid rise and startling collapse of Korea's Daewoo Group. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

250323 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this video, let us talk about Micro-LED technology - the Prince That Was Promised. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

230622 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Japan has long struggled with corrupt ties between its politicians and businesses. It is said that they experience one such major scandal every ten years - every time leading to calls for reform. At the end of the 1980s, Japan experienced one of their most serious such scandals - the Recruit Scandal. It touched all of Japan’s political, economic, and social elites. Its widespread nature signaled a deeply corrupt system - going all the way up to the Prime Minister himself. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

290622 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Liang Mong Song (梁孟松) was one of TSMC’s founding geniuses. Unquestionably brilliant but scathingly difficult to work with, he rose through TSMC’s ranks for nearly two decades. Then he defected to South Korea to work for the company's biggest and fiercest competitor: Samsung. In doing so, he near single-handedly pushed Samsung to overtake and overthrow the Taiwanese chip giant. Most Western media seem to skip over TSMC's history after its founding. I think what happened between then and now is just as enthralling. In this video, we are going to look at one of the company's most dramatic events: the defection of Liang Mong-song. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

090922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

050922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. One of the science’s big dreams has been to leverage these technologies to radically miniaturize and encapsulate the laboratory: the Lab-on-a-Chip People have been pouring a lot of time and resources into the space. There are thousands of papers published on microfluidics. And it does offer tantalizing promise. But it is also littered with many commercial failures ... and one very big fraud. In this video, we take a look at the microfluidics industry, its pursuit of a mythic ideal, and why they have so far failed. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

030922 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this video, just a few thoughts that I have been thinking on with regards to semiconductor manufacturing careers. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

300822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. One morning in September 1981, Malaysia conducted a financial dawn raid that stunned the British business community and reclaimed hundreds of thousands of acres of Malaysian plantation land for Malaysia. In this video I want to talk about Malaysia’s strike against the remaining structures of the old colonial state. Corrections: 5:47: Burma gained its independence in 1948, not 1949. I misspoke Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

130622 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this video, I want to talk about this interesting organization from Belgium and the unique way it helped ASML become one of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

100622 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Rivers are big and full of freshwater, which is great because we humans can only drink freshwater. But do you know what's their problem? Well, those rivers tend to lead to the ocean! And that means all of that sweet sweet freshwater vanishes into the salty salty sea! This accident of circumstances is, of course, unacceptable. So what if you can keep all that freshwater from leaking out there by damming the very sea itself? It might sound weird at first, but this is a real thing - a coastal reservoir. A freshwater lake created out of a piece of the ocean. In this video, I want to talk about the upsides and downsides of coastal reservoirs. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

190822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and yet we just can’t get enough of it. In 2018, Singapore was the world's biggest importer of sand by value. Each year, the country consumes over 5 tons of sand per resident. Over the past twenty years, they have imported over 500 million tons of sand. And with these sand imports, Singapore has created massive amounts of wealth for itself and its people. But the sand has to come from somewhere. Its mass removal has big environmental impacts, and has opened the country up to criticism. But is it even possible to replace sand? That’s what we are going to talk about in this video. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

150822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. For a long time, the semiconductor industry's primary economic engine was Moore's Law. An internal benchmark of doubling the number of devices on an integrated chip every 18 months. Broadly speaking, three engines drove these advances. Semiconductor design, increasing wafer sizes, and lastly, lithography. Improvements in optical lithography techniques have been the true driving force behind producing faster and faster chips. But coming up to the new millennium, it became clear to everyone that the lithographic train of progress was braking to a slow halt. Was there enough left in the tank for one last ride? Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

120822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. I want to thank Alex Sludds for his efforts in helping me research and produce his video. Check out his work here: https://alexsludds.github.io Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

090822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. I took a trip somewhere. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

080822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. At the time of Japan's opening up, almost all of the world’s watches came from either the United States or Switzerland. The Swiss sought to keep their secrets from leaking out to other countries. But those secrets still got out, and with them Japan became one of the biggest makers of watches in the world. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

070822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. At the turn of the century, the $200 billion semiconductor manufacturing industry across the globe joined hands and underwent a massive transition. Maybe the last of its kind. That transition? They made their wafers larger. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

010822 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. In this brief video, I want to say a few thoughts about SMIC's N+2 node - the 7 nanometer leap forward. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

220522 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The NASA space project advanced the technological progress of the human race by leaps and bounds. Examples of these revolutionary developments abound. But one extra-special item was in its computer. The Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC was one of the first to use silicon-based integrated circuits. In this video, we are going to look at how the silicon integrated circuit supercharged the AGC and guided us - literally - to the moon. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

180522 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The 1975 collapse of the Republic of Vietnam - commonly referred to as South Vietnam - ended a three decade struggle to reunify the country. The victorious North Vietnamese - led by the Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV - then embarked on a series of economic measures to wipe away colonialist influence and bring socialism to the country. However, these measures failed to achieve their goals and the country tilted dangerously close to a famine. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.substack.com - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry - Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/