Volume 28, Number 18 · November 19, 1981

Japan in the Chips

By Robert B. Reich
The World Challenge
by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

Simon and Schuster, 302 pp., $14.95

The 'Chip Wars' are intensifying. Lined up on one side are the Nippon Electric Company (NEP), Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, and their ally, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). On the other side are IBM, Texas Instruments, Intel, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Advanced Micro Devices, Mostek, Signetics, Fairchild, and the United States Department of Defense.



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