The Chip Collection - ICECAP Reports Series 9

Description:

ICECAP 1980 - 90: A newsletter-type report published by Integrated Circuit Engineering a minimum of 12 times a year. Except where sources of information are referenced, the data presented have been obtained from interviews with industry spokesmen or other public sources.

For example:

THE JAPANESE THREAT: PART I
The increasing penetration of Japanese firms in the world IC market, and particularly into the US market, evokes a number of reactions: general nervousness, downright fear, out-and-out anger, begrudging admiration, and from the more crude, explicative sprinkled with decidedly impolite 3 - letter contractions of the national heritage.

Ironically, at least three of the more outspoken US industry leaders are complaining of unfair practices even while purchasing Japanese ICs to supplement their own production.

And in the general electronics industry the availability of Japanese 16K MOS RAM probably boosted industry output by several hundred million dollars over what would have been possible without the parts.

Other stories included in the May issue are:

The Gold Adder: Snake in the Grass
Silicon shortage: The Polygraph Syndrome
The Shrink: Headache-Maker
ISCC World Opinion Forum

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