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...machines in 1991. That is still small compared with giant NEC, which controls more than 50% of the personal-computer market in the country, but Apple hopes to reach a 7% share and sell 50% more computers this year, for $500 million. Maneuvering its way among behemoths like NEC, Fujitsu, IBM and Toshiba is no mean achievement for Apple, especially since overall personal-computer sales have slumped during the past two years. Says Satjiv Chahil, marketing vice president for Apple Pacific: "I think we have won Japan's respect...
...cost of developing new computer chips has propelled some formerly fierce rivals into unlikely alliances. The latest: IBM, Toshiba and Siemens will unite to create memory chips 16 times as powerful as any existing today, while Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will work together on flash memory chips, which could one day replace disk drives. Suddenly a major weapon in the U.S.-Japanese trade war looks more like a plowshare than a sword...
...concept (IBM by forming a joint venture in September with Thinking Machines), and even Cray Research has begun work on a massively parallel supercomputer. Japan has selected the technology as the target for one of its long-term research undertakings, and at least three Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu -- are busy making their own Connection Machine-like computers...
Meanwhile, a surprising number of companies are developing programs to run on the current machines. Among them are reference-book publishers like Britannica and Grolier, magazine publishers like Time Warner and National Geographic, film companies like Lucasfilm and Disney, electronics manufacturers like Sony, Fujitsu and NEC, as well as a long list of software publishers...
...killer shark is out there attacking this whale, thousands of relentless barracuda are taking bites out of it. Once the pre-eminent force in closet-size mainframe computers, IBM has watched its share of the world market dwindle from nearly 80% to 69%, as rivals like Japan's Fujitsu and Germany's Siemens score large gains with more powerful and less expensive machines. Its once commanding lead in personal computers has shriveled from 46% to 23%. Big Blue has stumbled so badly in such markets as home computers, portables and telecommunications that security analysts have started to doubt the company...