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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: US-Japan chip pact
Message-ID: <2551@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 18:01:57 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: Why TI set up a factory in Japan

I once attended a presentation by a representative from Texas
Instruments.  One person in the audience asked why TI had set up a chip
assembly line in Japan.  The TI person answered that TI tried to make
the same chip here in the USA and had a very high failure rate.  Then
TI set up an an assembly line in Japan that uses Japanese labor and was
able to successfully make the chip.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi