Japanese electronics technology /

By:

Jonh While

Language: Inglés Series: SeriePublication details: Gene Gregory USA 1986Edition: 1Description: 441 15cm de ancho X 22cm de largoISBN:

0471910384

LOC classification:

Contents:

Prefaces... vii, ix 3 Introduction: Japan and the Global Electronics Revolution PART 1. The Japanese Electronics Industry 1. The Making of a Revolution 2. Strategies and Structures. 25 37 PART II. Technology 3. The Propensity for Innovation 49 4. Managing Technological Change ..... 79 5. Mega-Research and Microelectronics 107 6. The Great Engineering Gap 119 7. Finance for High Technology 129 PART III. Consumer Electronics 8. The Protectionist Threat 141 9. The Legal Conundrum 157 10. Innovation and Internationalization 171 183 11. High-Definition Television PART IV. Semiconductors 12. Brave New World of Microelectronics 195 13. The VLSI Revolution 203 14. Chip-Making Machinery: The Birth of a Hi-Tech Industry 209 [4:46 p.m., 18/11/2025] Daniel de los Santos: PART V Computers 15. Big Blue Beseiged 227 16. Turbulent Transition 235 17. New Strategies and Structures.... 243 18. The Great Supercomputer Sweepstakes 255 PART VI Computer Services 19. Hard Facts About Japanese Software 20. Database Services: Another New Growth Industry ..... 289 PART VII. Factory Automation 273 21. Japanese Factory 1990 303 22. Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing Systems 315 PART VIII, Communications 23. Networks for the Information Society 329 24. The Changing Role of NTT 337 25. New Technology and Industrial Structures 353 26. The Den Den Family Under Stress 367 27. New Media: Facsimile 379 28. VAN-Birth of a New Industry 391 29. LAN- The Net Results of Automation 401 PART IX Regional Integration 30. East Asian Electronics: System and Synergy 411 Index 441

Summary: Preface to the Second Edition SOMETIME AROUND the end of 1985. NEC Corporation emerged as the world's largest producer of semiconductors. The leading Japanese microelectronics device maker moved up from the No. 3 position worldwide to the top rank, surpassing American firms that have held the lead since the early days of the semiconductor era. And not far behind. close on the heels of second and third ranking Motorola and Texas In-struments, were Hitachi and Toshiba. Three of the five largest semicon. ductor makers in the world are, at this juncture, Japanese, and these three are distinguished by their high level of integration of electronics produe tion and the thrust of their research and development effort. Indeed, this new configuration of the global microelectronics in dustry was to be further manifest at the 1986 international microelec tronics devices conference in Los Angeles, where two Japanese firms were scheduled to introduce 4-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices already test-manufactured using improved methods of cutting sub-micron geometries in silicon wafers. The race for the next generation of ulra-large scale integrated (ULSI) circuit markets is on and Japanese makers have grasped the technological lead. If, as the indicators suggest, this transformation is permanent, or as permanent as anything can be in such a rapidly changing industry, it must be numbered among the most important industrial events of the past twenty-five years. It is the first time a non-Atlantic firm has taken the lead in a major high technology industry. It marks a further critical stage, following that of consumer products, in the epochal shift of the world electronics industry's epicenter to East Asia. And it sets the stage for yet another round of protectionism in the United States that could have far-reaching deleterious effects upon those sectors of high technology production that still enjoy a leading worldwide position. Should this happen, prospects are that production of computers and other advanced electronic equipment will follow the pattern of consumer electronics, moving to offshore locations where the supply of lower cost components can be assured. This prospect makes it all the more important that the factors shap-ing the continuing Japanese electronics revolution be understood. The first edition of this book was admittedly a first and incomplete attempt to put the critical factors together in a single volume. It is, so far, the one at-tempt we have. And for this reason, it is even more timely, even more

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Prefaces...

vii, ix

3

Introduction: Japan and the Global Electronics Revolution

PART 1.

The Japanese Electronics Industry

1. The Making of a Revolution

2. Strategies and Structures.

25

37

PART II.

Technology

3. The Propensity for Innovation

49

4. Managing Technological Change .....

79

5. Mega-Research and Microelectronics

107

6. The Great Engineering Gap

119

7. Finance for High Technology

129

PART III.

Consumer Electronics

8. The Protectionist Threat

141

9. The Legal Conundrum

157

10. Innovation and Internationalization

171

183

11. High-Definition Television

PART IV.

Semiconductors

12. Brave New World of Microelectronics

195

13. The VLSI Revolution

203

14. Chip-Making Machinery: The Birth of a Hi-Tech Industry

209
[4:46 p.m., 18/11/2025] Daniel de los Santos: PART V

Computers

15. Big Blue Beseiged

227

16. Turbulent Transition

235

17. New Strategies and Structures....

243

18. The Great Supercomputer Sweepstakes

255

PART VI

Computer Services

19. Hard Facts About Japanese Software

20. Database Services: Another New Growth Industry ..... 289

PART VII.

Factory Automation

273

21. Japanese Factory 1990

303

22. Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing Systems

315

PART VIII, Communications

23. Networks for the Information Society

329

24. The Changing Role of NTT

337

25. New Technology and Industrial Structures

353

26. The Den Den Family Under Stress

367

27. New Media: Facsimile

379

28. VAN-Birth of a New Industry

391

29. LAN- The Net Results of Automation

401

PART IX

Regional Integration

30. East Asian Electronics: System and Synergy 411

Index

441

Preface to the Second Edition

SOMETIME AROUND the end of 1985. NEC Corporation emerged as the world's largest producer of semiconductors. The leading Japanese microelectronics device maker moved up from the No. 3 position worldwide to the top rank, surpassing American firms that have held the lead since the early days of the semiconductor era. And not far behind. close on the heels of second and third ranking Motorola and Texas In-struments, were Hitachi and Toshiba. Three of the five largest semicon. ductor makers in the world are, at this juncture, Japanese, and these three are distinguished by their high level of integration of electronics produe tion and the thrust of their research and development effort.

Indeed, this new configuration of the global microelectronics in dustry was to be further manifest at the 1986 international microelec tronics devices conference in Los Angeles, where two Japanese firms were scheduled to introduce 4-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices already test-manufactured using improved methods of cutting sub-micron geometries in silicon wafers. The race for the next generation of ulra-large scale integrated (ULSI) circuit markets is on and Japanese makers have grasped the technological lead.

If, as the indicators suggest, this transformation is permanent, or as permanent as anything can be in such a rapidly changing industry, it must be numbered among the most important industrial events of the past twenty-five years. It is the first time a non-Atlantic firm has taken the lead in a major high technology industry. It marks a further critical stage, following that of consumer products, in the epochal shift of the world electronics industry's epicenter to East Asia. And it sets the stage for yet another round of protectionism in the United States that could have far-reaching deleterious effects upon those sectors of high technology production that still enjoy a leading worldwide position. Should this happen, prospects are that production of computers and other advanced electronic equipment will follow the pattern of consumer electronics, moving to offshore locations where the supply of lower cost

components can be assured. This prospect makes it all the more important that the factors shap-ing the continuing Japanese electronics revolution be understood. The first edition of this book was admittedly a first and incomplete attempt to put the critical factors together in a single volume. It is, so far, the one at-tempt we have. And for this reason, it is even more timely, even more

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