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Decline of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry: Institutional Restrictions and the Disintegration of Techno-Governance

In: Struggles for Survival

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  • Yoshitaka Okada

    (Sophia University)

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In the 1980s, Japanese semiconductor manufacturers began to dominate the world market with three successive types of dynamic random access memories (DRAM): the 64 kilobit (Kb) (70% of market share in 1982), 256 Kb (90% in 1984), and 1 megabit (Mb) (90% in 1988). While the number of DRAM producers in the United States declined from 14 in 1970 to 3 in 1986,1 Japan’s world market share for all types of semiconductors first approached that of the U.S. in 1985, passed it in 1987 (48% Japan vs. 39% U.S.), and peaked in 1988 (about 51% Japan vs. about 37% U.S.) (Okada, 1989a, 2000). After that, as Fig. 2.1 shows, Japan’s share of the world semiconductor market began to gradually decline

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  • Yoshitaka Okada, 2006. "Decline of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry: Institutional Restrictions and the Disintegration of Techno-Governance," Springer Books, in: Yoshitaka Okada (ed.), Struggles for Survival, chapter 0, pages 39-103, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-4-431-28916-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/4-431-28916-X_3
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