U.S. maker of chips in alliance: Advanced Micro teams with Fujitsu

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc will cooperate with Fujitsu Ltd to make and sell 'flash memories,' which are a new kind of integrated circuit that could take the place of disk drives in computers. The agreement is announced on the same day that IBM announces a similar contract with Toshiba Corp of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany. High costs for developing and manufacturing semiconductor devices are cited as a reason for these alliances. A modern semiconductor facility can cost more than half a billion dollars, which is a formidable burden for even the largest corporations. International cooperation, as exemplified by these contracts, could ease trade tensions between the US and Japan.

United States, Contracts, United States foreign relations, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, Memory, Flash memory, International markets, Fujitsu Ltd., Cooperative Agreements, Foreign Competition, World Market, FUJIT

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U.S. chips' gain is Japan's loss

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US companies gain market share from Japanese companies in the worldwide semiconductor industry in 1990. The increase in US market share is the first since 1979; US companies controlled 36.5 percent of the market in 1990, compared with 34.9 in 1989. Japanese companies, which controlled 52.1 percent of the semiconductor market in 1989, controlled only a 49.5 percent market share in 1990. The worldwide semiconductor industry rose two percent in 1990, to $58.4 billion. US industry observers believe the shift signals the end of the American erosion of market share that began in 1979. At that time, the US had 57.9 percent of the market and Japan had only 25.8 percent of the market.

Market share, Corporations, Corporations, Japanese

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Europe sets prices for Japan's chips

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The European Community will set minimum prices for computer memory chips sold by Japanese manufacturers. The action moves the world closer to a system in which prices for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips are controlled by government decree rather than by market forces. The Europeans are reportedly setting up the price system to prevent Japanese companies from selling chips below production costs, a practice known as dumping. American semiconductor manufacturers have also complained about dumping, but dumping complaints were dropped in 1986 as part of an agreement that set up a minimum pricing system for Japanese chips.

Europe, Economic policy, International relations, European Union, DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), Magnetic media, Magnetic storage media, DRAM, Europe, Western, Pricing Policy, European Community

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