asianometry

The Revival of the Swiss Watch Industry

The Life and Death of Yugoslavia’s Car Giant

The Big Data Center Water Problem

The Semiconductor Design Software Duopoly: Cadence & Synopsys

China’s Sinking Land Problem

Bangkok’s Big Housing Boom (& Bust)

The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer

When an ASML Lithography Machine Goes Down

The Gate-All-Around Transistor is Coming

How China Built a Semiconductor Industry

The Rise of the East German Economy

Texas Instruments Made a Computer (& It Failed)

The Transistor That Won the World

Why Synopsys Bought Ansys (For $35 Billion)

The Birth of SQL & the Relational Database

Broadcom: The $600 Billion AI Chip Giant

Where Did RFID Come From?

Why North Korea Starves

How America Saved Its Failing Freight Trains

The Three Gorges Dam, Examined

Is the AI Boom Real?

That Time the Soviets Tried to Abolish Money

The Origins of the Japanese Steel Industry

How the Rich Ate Macau