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Intel Corp. is a company with a wide--and growing--range of products, from chips and chip sets for PCs, servers and mobile devices to software, communications offerings and now even blade […]

The Godzilla movies are great, but not because of cinematography or acting. In fact, the absence of these elements elevates the cheesy films to cult status. It's the symbolism of […]

Probe for weaknesses, then jump in. Find another weak point and capture it. When you can't be dislodged, go after the strong points. This strategy, which has taken japan from […]

Japanese Perplexed by PC-Compatibles Market Analysts Point to Fear Of IBM, Bafflement at Entrepreneurial Ideal Marketing problems, national high-tech policy and fear of IBM have kept the Japanese--the masters of […]

After World War II, Japan began a wholesale borrowing of manufacturing techniques from the United States. American economist W. Edward Deming lectured to the Japanese on quality control and just-in-time […]

Motif Inc. is too young to have a corporate motto. But if it did, it might be 'Butt Out.' Sounds rude. Then again, you can afford to be uncouth when […]

Forget Japan's five-year head start. Ignore the $3 billion it has already invested. Never mind how hard they are to make. Clinton & Co. aren't worried.This fall, they're going to […]

By Michael R. Zimmerman BOSTON -- Videoconferencing will permeate corporate America 'sooner than people think,' and Japan's impact on the market will be limited, industry experts said at a communications […]

By Andrew Ould Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. -- currently in the news for its $6 billion blockbuster deal with film and music empire MCA Inc. -- is not yet […]

The latest Japanese tactic in the chip war is the underground attack. Japanese companies, with a strong yen that makes American properties relatively cheap, are snapping up U.S. companies that […]

By Daniel J. Lyons Sanford Kane expected to come to last month's Montgomery Securities Inc. chip conference a hero -- the leader of U.S. Memories Inc., a $500 million memory-chip […]

Quality Control: Key to Productivity At the close of World War II, W. Edwards Deming began to preach the gospel of statistical quality control to American manufacturers. Monitor the manufacturing […]

If the Clinton administration can keep its collective foot out of its collective mouth, U.S. computer companies that buy components from Japan may get a break in the form of […]

Could it be? The country that gave us Mazdas, Sony and karaoke is poised to make the same impact in the software business? Well, it's no lead-pipe cinch, but the […]

BUSH DEFENDS TARIFF ON DISPLAYS TOUTS OPENING OF JAPAN'S GOVERNMENT MARKET TO U.S. FIRMS PRESIDENT BUSH SAID THE TARIFF ON ACTIVE-MATRIX DISPLAYS IS A RESPONSE TO IMPORT DUMPING. -------------------- By […]

Network down. 3Com Corp.'s exit from the network operating system market in January continues to take its toll on the company's bottom line. The Santa Clara, Calif., firm last week […]

By Kelley Damore A Korean company's entry into the laser-printer market later this year is likely to break up a Japanese monopoly and spark a price war in this intensely […]

Duties on Flat Panels Could Hurt U.S. Firms Duties recently placed on flat panels from Japanese firms will likely result in a dramatic loss of U.S. PC manufacturing jobs with […]

U.S. Laptop Makers Seen Hurt by Japan Ruling U.S. laptop makers are likely to be hurt by a Bush administration decision to suspend duties on the imports of Japanese laptops. […]

By Laura Brennan Toshiba Corp. is negotiating to become the next supplier of RISC chips designed by MIPS Computer Systems Inc., sources said, a move that would shift MIPS' chip-making […]

Probe of Japanese Prices May Affect Notebook Costs Fast-eroding prices of notebook computers could stabilize this summer if the U.S. Department of Commerce upholds a preliminary finding that Japanese LCD […]

-------------------- Japanese-Owned Firms Make Moves on Europe Yet another European PC maker has fallen under the spell of a rich Japanese-owned company. Sweden's Nokia Data, Europe's sixth-largest computer maker, has […]

By Laura Brennan IBM Japan's sagging profits have prompted officials to redeploy staffers and increase its focus on PCs and notebook computers. The Tokyo-based subsidiary, whose pretax profits fell 21 […]

Japanese chip makers continue to hold on to their home turf with a viselike grip, according to Dataquest Inc., a San Jose, Calif., market-research firm. In 1990, Japanese chip makers […]

A few weeks ago, John Sculley and Mike Spindler unveiled their vision of Apple Computer's future to a small group of industry analysts. The chief executive and president, respectively, laid […]

By Steven Burke The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) last week criticized Japan for not fully complying with the landmark 1986 semiconductor agreement between the United States and Japan. When the […]

The Land of the Rising Sun is steeped in tradition. Order and discipline are a way of life. The entrepreneurial spirit is often squelched, deferring instead to company loyalty and […]

By Susan E. Fisher AST Research Inc. hopes to chip away at NEC Corp.'s dominant position in the Japanese PC market by cloning the giant Tokyo company's most popular model. […]

IBM Swings Samurai Sword At Looming Chip Monopoly IBM took several steps last week to cut the legs from under Japanese chip makers, which own about 80 percent of the […]

By Steven Burke The demise of U.S. Memories could come back to haunt U.S. computer companies, according to industry executives and analysts. The failure of the New York-based semiconductor consortium […]

Now that they're here, the 1990s don't seem much different. Lotus 1-2-3 still leads the spreadsheet market, Microsoft Windows is gaining steam and PCs are still selling like crazy. Ten […]

30% Rise in Value of Yen Could Realign U.S.-Japan Electronics Competition The soaring value of the Japanese yen is squeezing profit margins of the normally price-competitive Japanese electronics companies and […]

CHICAGO--IBM will likely achieve its goal of $200 billion in revenue by 1995, but first it must surmount two important obstacles: increasing competition from the Japanese and mounting pressure on […]

In July 1984, Intel Corp. began building a massive 500,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, N.M., for fabrication of state-of-the-art 6-inch silicon wafers. The 'Fab Nine' facility was to be a […]

JSE International Inc., of Tokyo, last week quietly introduced what it called the 'first Japanese business-software package' to be marketed in the United States. dCHART, the best-selling dBASE II add-on […]

IBM's ProPrinter has not yet had a significant impact on buying patterns in the low-cost, dot-matrix-printer market, as the majority of sales continue to go to the Japanese, dealers said. […]

Stagnant Disk-Drive Market Offers Up Mail-Order Bargains A supply glut has forced disk-drive vendors to heavily discount their products to increase sales to business users, particularly through mail-order houses. The […]

Reflecting the trend in the consumer-electronics industry, 'American-made' in the low end of the PC-printer market is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Japanese printers are dominating the PC […]

PC laser-printer technology--the fastest, quietest, most powerful method of letter-quality printing available for less than $4,000--is being endorsed by a second player. Japan's Konishiroku Photo (better known in the United […]

By Daniel Isaac A year-old federal inquiry into allegations that Japanese manufacturers were unfairly marketing 3-1/2-inch floppy disks in the United States has sparked wide-ranging changes in the industry -- […]