Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!jojo
From: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Japan and semiconductors
Message-ID: <683@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 17:38:41 GMT
References: <2244@crash.cts.com> <4895@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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>In article <2244@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>>          Is this a good thing?   If the Japanese are successful in driving
>>        our chip industry under because of the concentration of capital that
>>        their society allows, we will all be in trouble!

Don't forget that Japan also doesn't have to spend a lot of money on their
military.  We pump billions into SDI R&D and the military which will have
little to no results usable by the private sector.  An issue of PC-World
around October has an excellent editorial on why the US is losing ground
in semi-conductor technology to the Japanese for these very reasons...

--j 
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