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Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in DRAM semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
...Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in dram semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
...first time I was involved in a major strategic decision," Grove told USA Today in 1996. "From the DRAM situation, I learned more about how these things work, how I handle them and how I handle other people...
Board players revel in the notion that they are in the know. They note that the boards are often filled with such vital information as strategic plans, growth projections, competitive analysis and sophisticated discussion of new products. In the Intel folder, contributors regularly discuss dram pricing and its likely impact on the stock price, while in the Merck board, doctors have weighed in with their views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform...
...facts and anecdotes by omitting materials that could dilute his arguments. The book includes a fascinating chapter on Japan's domination of the computer-chip industry in the 1980s, but it skips over new statistics showing that a South Korean firm is now the leading producer of low-end dram chips, while U.S. firms continue to control the more profitable high-end part of the business. Meanwhile, Japan's computer-hardware industry is in the doldrums and its software firms have yet to make their mark...