Semiconductors
Semiconductors

Author: Andrew F. Malison

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780788103209

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Provides an overview of the structure and global competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry and analyzes recent trends in semiconductor consumption, production, and trade. In addition, the report contains information on the use, manufacture, and customs treatment of semiconductors. Charts, tables and graphs.

U.S.-Japan Strategic Alliances in the Semiconductor Industry
U.S.-Japan Strategic Alliances in the Semiconductor Industry

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1992-02-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 030904779X

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This book reviews the evolution of strategic alliances involving U.S. and Japanese companies in the semiconductor industry and analyzes whether alliances can contribute to the renewal of an industry faced with stiff competition from Japan. It includes case studies, alternative future scenarios, and suggestions for government and industry.

Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry
Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry

Author: James W. Cortada

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1996-01-30

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0313388016

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Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry, this bibliography provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject—biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories—and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information processing operations, useful to both historians and managers of information technology. Together with the earlier bibliography, this work provides the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the history of computers, computing, and the information processing industry. The organization of the book follows that of the earlier work, with the addition of the new chapter on the management of information processing. All entries are new to this volume. Titles are annotated, and each chapter begins with a short introduction. A full table of contents and author and subject indexes enhance accessibility to the material.

Dispelling the Manufacturing Myth
Dispelling the Manufacturing Myth

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1992-02-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0309046769

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Conventional wisdom holds that high wages, high capital costs, and worker inflexibility have cost America its ability to compete in the world manufacturing marketplace. This book demonstrates that U.S.-based manufacturing can compete in terms of quality, product features, and timely deliveryâ€"the real measures of competitiveness in the 1990s. The committee identifies attributes that attract manufacturers to given locations and assesses the attractiveness of the United States as a location for different kinds of manufacturing. The volume dispels myths that have guided management decision making in the past and offers recommendations to promote the United States as a manufacturing site. The volume discusses new approaches to understanding and controlling costs. With case studies from three important industriesâ€"consumer electronics, semiconductors, and automobilesâ€"the book explores factors in site location decisions, highlighting advantages the United States can offer as a manufacturing site over low-cost rivals.

Mismanaged Trade?
Mismanaged Trade?

Author: Kenneth Flamm

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0815717350

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The semiconductor industry is at the forefront of current tensions over international trade and investment in high technology industries. This book traces the struggle between U.S. and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with "managed trade" embodied in the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement. Flamm provides a thorough analysis of this experiment and its consequences for U.S. semiconductor producers and users, and presents extensive discussion of patterns of competition within the semiconductor industry. Using a wealth of new data, he argues that a fundamentally new trade regime for high technology industries is needed to escape from the present impasse. He lays out the alternatives, from laissez-faire to managed trade, and argues strongly for a new set of international ground rules to regulate acceptable behavior by government and firms in high-tech industries. Flamm's detailed analysis of competition within the semiconductor industry will be of great value to those interested in the industrial organization of high-technology industries, as well as those concerned with trade and technology policy, international competition, and Japanese industrial policies.