Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!amdcad!diablo!phil From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: US consumer electronics industry Keywords: Japan, US, industry Message-ID: <27550@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 02:19:09 GMT References: <1989Sep28.082305.10099@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Distribution: usa Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 26 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. -- Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil "Should the US send assault rifles to Colombia? How about small arms?"