Word: semiconductor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain. I was in Washington two years ago, right after the U.S. Government slapped punitive tariffs on Japanese electronics goods over the semiconductor issue. The mood was hysterical. At a party an American politician told me that because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were moving closer together, the world power balance had shifted, and Japan was no longer very important. He had the nerve to tell me that the Americans and the Russians share the same identity because they are white. Well, that's fine. But if Moscow is looking to Washington for high technology, Japan is the country...
Some executives contend that innovation is alive and well, citing such advances as notebook-size computers and high-speed RISC microprocessors. Says T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor: "What the bean counters who make projections forget is that in the next two to three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There...
Harvard was one of 14 universities which shared use of the multi-million dollar Princeton facility in a consortium arrangement, Weber said yesterday. The supercomputers, highly valued in advanced scientific research, make billions of calculations per second and are used in subatomic physics and semiconductor research, among other applications...
...book uses this theoretical framework to focus on what has happened in the semiconductor industry. In particular, Gilder's analysis attacks the conventional view that the U.S. blundered in letting Japan take over the market for mass-produced memory chips. As he points out, the key component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers...
Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court...