Word: kilobit
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...turning point for the U.S. semiconductor industry may have been in 1985, when American companies filed an antidumping petition against Japanese chipmakers. The Japanese were selling 256-kilobit memory chips at $2 each, for example, even though they cost an estimated $3 or more to produce. The result was the first U.S.-Japan semiconductor trade agreement, which set up a system of floor prices on Japanese chips. A second accord was signed last year, calling for American and other non-Japanese chipmakers to gain at least 20% of Japan's market...
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