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Japan's quest to build the high-powered machines began in 1981, when the government arranged a $136 million supercomputer-research project. Three Japanese manufacturers -- Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi -- account for 24% of the supercomputers sold to date. So far only U.S. and Japanese companies have entered the race. While Cray's machines still lead in worldwide sales, Japanese manufacturers may be pulling ahead by some measures of supercomputer performance, notably processing speed. Earlier this month NEC introduced a new series, called SX-3, billed as the world's fastest supercomputers, even though the machines will not be available until...
...across the Mississippi River in St. Paul, is the company from which Cray split off in 1972: Control Data Corp. CDC, which in 1983 created a supercomputer subsidiary called ETA Systems, is holding steady with a 12.7% market share. Coming up quickly is a trio of Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu -- that entered the supercomputer race in 1983 and has since captured 23% of the world market...
...products and processes suggests that Japanese innovations may on average be more significant than those of their American rivals. Moreover, the Japanese are snaring a fast-growing share of all U.S. patents. Last year, for the first time ever, the top three recipients of American patents were Japanese: Canon, Hitachi and Toshiba. General Electric, which had held the No. 1 spot for at least 25 years, until 1986, was in fourth place...
...Horizons considers 50 follow-up citations an extraordinarily high number. Canon's patent for the optical disc, one form of which is the compact disc sold in record stores, was mentioned 56 times. An antibiotic developed by Takeda Chemical Industries earned more than 100 subsequent citations. Among recent advances, Hitachi has patented various processes for a higher-resolution TV, called IDTV, which produces a much sharper picture than conventional color TV. Some Japanese innovations, like floppy computer disks and Sony's Walkman, have already produced marked changes in the American life-style...
...shack on Tokyo Bay, but the school expanded rapidly and became an established part of Japan's corporate scene. Now located in Fujinomiya, a small city at the foot of Mount Fuji, the school boasts 100,000 graduates, most of whom were sent there by companies like Honda and Hitachi to be toughened up for the no-holds-barred competition of the Japanese marketplace and to be taught, as Instructor Naoyoshi Fujimori explains, "to work in harmony with their colleagues...