National Policies for Developing High Technology Industries: International Comparisons by Francis W Rushing

Author:Francis W Rushing [Rushing, Francis W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429732430
Goodreads: 52484629
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Source: Dataquest.

Because Japanese producers capture roughly 90% of the demand for semiconductors in their own market, Japan's major semiconductor firms have been the primary beneficiaries of the explosive growth in usage of microelectronics in Japan. As a result of the experience and economies gained serving their own market, Japanese firms led by NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Matsushita, and Mitsubishi, have made rapid competitive inroads on world markets. Indeed, Japan's semiconductor industry has risen from relative obscurity at the start of the 1970s to become the second largest industry in the world, and the only one that has been gaining market share rapidly at the expense of U.S. producers. Over the past ten years, Japan's share of world semiconductor markets has doubled to just over 40% In 1985, while the U. S. share has fallen from over 60% to under 50%. At current investment and growth rates, the Japanese industry will overtake the U. S. by the late 1980s.

Although Japan's computer Industry has not ffared quite as well on International markets, its growth has nevertheless been impressive, and its firms offer the only serious competitive challenge to U. S. computer makers.20 Indeed, many of the second tier U. S. producers, like Burroughs, Honeywell and Sperry, now rely partly or entirely on Japanese producers to supply them on an OEM basis with computer hardware ranging from peripherals to PCs to entire mainframes. Table 6.3 indicates the domestic Japanese market for computers in 1984, broken out by supplier firms and by production for domestic consumption and export. In addition to the companies listed below, Matsushita, Seiko-Epsom, Sharp, Sony and Sanyo are major producers of personal computers and computer peripheral equipment. Overall, Japan's domestic computer market is the world's second largest national market. Japanese firms, largely on the basis of OEM deals with U. S. and European producers, are the only national industry offering competitive hardware supply to IBM, DEC and the few other leading U. S. producers.

TABLE 6.3

Japanese Computer Sales - 1984 (yen = billions)

Supplier Total Domestic Export

Fujitsu 857 687 170

IBM Japan 768 545 223

NEC 662 569 93

Hitachi 532 428 104

Toshiba 231 192 39

Oki 185 128 57

Mitsubishi 165 132 33

Japan NCR 66 66 --

Others 204

Total 3670

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