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- From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
- Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
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- In <1992Dec29.212413.15066@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >Of course they did, because it wasn't stopped until late in the game.
- >How many U.S. manufacturers of DRAM can YOU point to now? How many
- >were there when the Japanese started dumping and leveraged their SC
- >industry?
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- IBM and Micron Technology, though there's been rumors of TI working on
- high density chips.
-
- >[Hint: I know of only two domestic producers of DRAM. Extra point:
- >explain what really happened then, what the Koreans hope to achieve by
- >dumping in the U.S., and why the Japanese are now aiming to move out
- >of DRAM and into ASIC.]
-
- The full details would take a thesis or two, which I have neither the
- time nor the interest to complete. Basic point. An international monopoly like
- that is unsustainable. It's hardly my fault that U.S. companies are unwilling
- to stay in a market if it doesn't provide profits the next quarter (I also
- blame shortsightedness of U.S. investors for this failing).
-
- >Guess who was damaged most by the dumping? Can you say U.S. DRAM
- >manufacturers?
-
- They pulled up stakes and left the market before it became profitable again.
- Short term smart. Long term stupid. That's why you can find no mass-market
- consumer electronics made in the U.S. and only one domestic TV set (Zenith).
-
- >This discussion is more appropriate to sci.econ.
-
- Perhaps. But it is interesting.
-
- Paul
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