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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: US consumer electronics industry
Keywords: Japan, US, industry
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Date: 29 Sep 89 02:19:09 GMT
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In article <1989Sep28.082305.10099@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> mflawson@uokmax.UUCP (Michael F Lawson) writes:
|I heard that some of the US semiconductor
|companies were trying to band together and regain some of the DRAM market.

Just in time for the 1 megabit DRAM glut... 

|( I thought that there was at least one still making TV sets;
|was it Magnavox? )

Well, Zenith makes a very pretty VGA monitor. But it doesn't do SVGA, sigh.

|If there are, are the products themselves made in USA
|or assembled overseas?

I think a lot of Japanese companies do assembly in America. Their
labor costs are comparable to ours now and it looks good with Congress. 

|(recently saddened by Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pix)

I don't know, the consumer seems to have benefitted by Sony's purchase
of CBS (?) in that the copyguard crap seems to have died. With the
Japanese fondness for perfection, I think they're less likely to
colorize movies than Mr. Turner. 
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