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...jobs between 1983 and 1989. Dozens of firms abandoned the business. American companies also hurt their own cause with shoddy work and high defect rates. Written off by many experts, the semiconductor industry seemed destined for the same fate as steel, autos and televisions. Recalls Gordon Moore, chairman of Intel, the ranking U.S. chipmaker: "We were given up for dead...
...market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major producer of "flash" memory chips, one of the fastest- growing segments of the market. Flash chips, which can retain information even when the power is turned off, could one day replace computer disk drives. Other recent innovations include "voice" chips that can store audio recordings...
...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 have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with it. Says Thomas Thornhill III, an analyst at Montgomery Securities: "We all thought Japan Inc. was the Godzilla that would gobble up the U.S. chip industry. Nobody thinks Japan is the big bad monster...
...intervention is a long shot, Washington has given the industry a big boost through formation of the Sematech consortium. Created by Congress in 1987, Sematech is a research-and-development group financed on a fifty-fifty basis by the Pentagon and a group of 12 U.S. electronics companies, including Intel, Motorola and IBM. Based in Austin, Sematech set out to restore U.S. dominance in advanced chipmaking equipment, like circuit-printing machines...
...Bloomberg, that cannot be linked to standard PCs or run off-the-shelf software. Some large vendors have already made the investment to switch to "open" systems. Knight-Ridder has developed a PC-based service using Microsoft's popular Windows program. Reuters is teaming up with PC-maker Intel. And EJV Partners, the joint venture of six Wall Street firms, is building a system designed to run on personal computers. But Bloomberg stubbornly rejects this approach. He fears that he would lose his unique edge if he abandoned the Bloomberg. However, says Robert Russel, senior vice president of marketing...