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Top Ten Semiconductor Manufacturers For 1985

By 1985, Japanese semiconductor world market leadership had lasted for five years but the Americans were not ready to roll over. In 1987 Charlie Sporck and Bob Noyce put together the Sematech consortium and, in 1992 the US had 44 per cent world market share, the Japanese had 43 per cent - the first time for 12 years that the US had led.

 

NEC

 

TI

 

Motorola

 

Hitachi

 

Toshiba

 

Fujitsu

 

Philips

 

Intel

 

National

 

Matsushita

 

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