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...that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
Industrial espionage would remain a major problem for U.S. firms even without the presence of foreign spies. Reason: American companies are stealing from each other. John Shea, president of Technology Analysis Group Inc., indicts all of Silicon Valley in the practice. Says he: "It's a very entrepreneurial society here. Trafficking in trade secrets is just a way of life and has been for the past dozen years." Belden Menkus, a top security consultant with offices in New Jersey, offers an even more sweeping assessment. Says he: "If you were to prosecute all companies doing industrial espionage, you would...
Conventional war games date back to the late 18th century, when they were laboriously played with wooden blocks on colorfully painted boards. Today's high-speed computers, with their prodigious memory banks and supersmart silicon processing chips, can paint realistic playing fields and speed the action up to nearly "real time." While aspects of the Janus program remain classified, it could be described as a computer-age variation of the children's sea game, Battleship. Janus, which is played on land pits the U.S. against forces modeled after the Soviets'. Two teams of players divide into separate...
...Silicon Valley chipmakers complain that they fell behind in the 64K competition because Japanese firms benefited from relatively cheap bank loans (as low as 6% vs. about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...technological prowess of IBM, Western Electric and the scrappy, innovative chipmakers of Silicon Valley makes it almost certain that the U.S. will be able to hold its own in the semiconductor contest. The possible applications of chips are limitless, and the potential market is so vast that there will be room for vigorous semiconductor industries in both the U.S. and Japan. The Japanese challenge will help spur American chipmakers to even greater technological achievement. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Dick Thompson/San Francisco and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York