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...That is still small compared with giant NEC, which controls more than 50% of the personal-computer market in the country, but Apple hopes to reach a 7% share and sell 50% more computers this year, for $500 million. Maneuvering its way among behemoths like NEC, Fujitsu, IBM and Toshiba is no mean achievement for Apple, especially since overall personal-computer sales have slumped during the past two years. Says Satjiv Chahil, marketing vice president for Apple Pacific: "I think we have won Japan's respect...
Sculley's vision enticed electronics giants Toshiba and Sharp to form alliances with his company earlier this year. Apple is contributing software know-how and product design to manufacture a CD-ROM player with Toshiba and a PDA with Sharp; the Japanese firms are providing manufacturing expertise along with key components such as flat-screen displays. Says Sculley: "We cannot afford to fund these projects by ourselves. These alliances give us a chance to be players in an important growth area." Agrees Toshiba's Takehiko Kotoh: "In the 100-m race, Apple is the top runner. They are very quick...
Apple's CD-ROM joint venture with Toshiba is focused through Kaleida, a subsidiary at work creating an operating system that will make the disks playable on a variety of computers. The CD-ROM can hold digitized text, still images and even video as well as audio. Its main appeal is that it can accommodate data equivalent to that carried by 1,000 regular computer disks or about 250,000 pages of text. At this point, fewer than 5% of personal computers are equipped with CD-ROM players because no standard exists: a CD- ROM for Apple, for example, does...
...cost of developing new computer chips has propelled some formerly fierce rivals into unlikely alliances. The latest: IBM, Toshiba and Siemens will unite to create memory chips 16 times as powerful as any existing today, while Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will work together on flash memory chips, which could one day replace disk drives. Suddenly a major weapon in the U.S.-Japanese trade war looks more like a plowshare than a sword...
...ground, the prime suspect was Ahmed Jibril, the roly-poly boss of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (P.F.L.P.-G.C.). Two months earlier, West German police had arrested 16 members of his terrorist organization. Seized during the raids was a plastic bomb concealed in a Toshiba cassette player, similar to the one that blew up Flight 103. There was other evidence pointing to Jibril. His patron was Syria. His banker for the attack on the Pan Am plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars...