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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies as Texas Instruments and LSI Logic are producing ) designs in Japan for the complex semiconductors needed to process the massive amounts of data necessary to generate lush HDTV pictures. "There is plenty of room for American companies to take advantage of their strength in semiconductor design," says Keiske Yawata, chief executive of LSI Logic's branch in Japan. U.S. firms, including Zenith and General Instruments, are developing proposals for HDTV standards in the U.S., which will be chosen by the Federal Communications Commission by spring 1993. Even a digital system has its disadvantages. For one, the signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear Picture, Fuzzy Future | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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