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...firms, which feared a takeover by Japanese firms during the 1980s, have exported their cutthroat pricing to Tokyo with stunning success. Led by IBM, Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...
...drive controls and fiber-optic communications. Sales surged about 50% last year, including a 90% increase in Japan and a 110% jump in Europe. AT&T's computer business is in the black and ranks No. 7 in sales, coming up fast behind such world-class firms as IBM, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard...
There is some question whether the CIA spooks who have spent their careers counting crates on the docks of Soviet ports can transfer those skills to deciphering the newest details of Fujitsu's latest supercomputer or the immediate implications of a hike in German interest rates. And even if they can, the bigger issue may be whether any short-term gains by some U.S. corporations will offset the potential losses in civil liberties at home and friendships abroad. In the end, that price may be judged too high...
...Panasonic. But as global sales of TVs, VCRs, PCs and telephones have fallen because of the worldwide economic slump, so have the fortunes of Japanese chip companies. At NEC, profits are down 71%; at Toshiba, earnings are off 39%. As a result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing its U.S. chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They...
...Fujitsu computers have already beeninstalled in the book department, and theconversion will be completed throughout the storewithin the next six months to a year, Lovins said...