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Jon Y
Personal blog · asianometry.substack.comeconomicshardwarehistory
Jon Y writes The Asianometry Newsletter, a personal blog at asianometry.substack.com about economics, hardware and history. Since 2021, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Google's Open Source Hardware Dreams”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Y's Substack and YouTube channel for explanations of semiconductor industry news and processes. Linked posts cover topics such as US government chip buying, neon shortages and Japan's chip industry.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Newsletter for the Asianometry channel. Studies on Asia - Financials, semiconductors, history, demography, development and other stuff. A letter every week Thursday, 1 am Taipei time.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-11
- Google's Open Source Hardware Dreams3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-23
- Silicon Carbide: A Power Electronics Revolution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
- The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-20
- Floorplanning a Better Chip with AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- A Deep Dive into Immersion Lithography Technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-26
- The Government Semiconductor Chip Buying Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Asianometry[1]: Mostly about semiconductors, with YouTube videos [1]: https://asianometry.substack.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?”Submitted How the Soviets put a lander on Venus as a story · 274 points
HN discussionAsianometry[1] is a good channel for breaking down the chip industry news and process. He also has a newsletter[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry/videos [2] https://asianometry.substack.com/
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on “Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown”Submitted Apple’s Newest OLED Supplier as a story · 183 points
HN discussionThe Asianometry newsletter wrote a really insightful newsletter about the US Government's Semiconductor Chip Buying Problem[1] (He also has Youtube video[2] you can watch on the same newsletter) In the newsletter and video he talks about the US's Trusted Foundry Program and the different pitfalls and challenges that came with the program. [1] https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-government-semiconduc... [2]The US…
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on “Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production”Submitted Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade as a story · 136 points
HN discussionSeems that recycling is really well established/developed and is really just a minor inconvenience and a cost that the chip makers will get to once they can't proceed as usual. https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/how-one-light-source-man... https://asianometry.substack.com/p/neon-shortages-in-semicon...
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on “Understanding the science behind the neon shortage”Submitted The Soviet Union’s Nuclear Icebreakers as a story · 103 points
HN discussionLikewise. I follow several thoughtful creators like Asianometry[0] and haven't seen anything like what GP's describing. [0] https://asianometry.substack.com/
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on “Substack Is the Biggest Threat to Newsletters Ever”Submitted The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors as a story · 99 points
HN discussionIn several of the hyper-capitalist developmentalist East Asian states, all land is merely leased from the government: Singapore - https://stackedhomes.com/editorial/land-ownership-in-singapo... Hong Kong - https://www.landsd.gov.hk/en/resources/land-info-stat/land-t... Some of this might have been because of the impression Georgism had on some of the Chinese revolutionaries, including Sun Yat-Sen himself: https://ta…
Comment linking /p/how-the-kmt-achieved-land-reform
on “Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF”Submitted The semiconductor bust – still coming? as a story · 97 points
HN discussion"In 2007, Apple significantly dialed down its MacBook manufacturing business with Asus and the company had to respond. That same year, they announced that they would hive off their original design manufacturing business into a 100% owned subsidiary called Pegatron. Management hoped this would reassure their customers that improper information cannot be shared across lines. But the conflicts of interest persisted. An…
Comment linking /p/asus-explained-a-rare-taiwanese-global
on “It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved”Submitted Designing Billions of Circuits with Code as a story · 93 points
HN discussion> semiconductor foundries: Why should Japan have excelled here vs any other country? Japan did have a thriving semiconductor industry early on but key Japanese companies made wrong choices wrt technologies and obviously TSMC ran away with the market. Nikon was a competitor to ASML until the EUV revolution, etc. see: https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-peak-of-japa...
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on “Japan Has Changed a Lot”Submitted The big automotive semiconductor problem as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Big Semiconductor Water Problem as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultrapure Water as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thailand Became an Auto Export Giant as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taiwan’s Hidden Shoe Giant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intel in Israel: A Semiconductor Success as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's Open Source Hardware Dreams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Deep Dive into Immersion Lithography Technology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Is TSMC Still Growing? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How China Won the Solar Industry (& Why Germany Lost) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Promise of Open Source EDA Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applied Materials: America's Biggest Semiconductor Equipment Maker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thailand's Hard Drive Industry Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Government Semiconductor Chip Buying Problem as a story · 3 points
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