24 years ago, after their success in DRAM, the Japanese chip industry had to look for a new mainstream product. “In 1985 the US moved to microprocessors and logic and their choice proved to be very right,” Dr Tsugio Makimoto, president of Hitachi Semiconductor, told me in 1998. “Now it’s our turn,” added Makimoto, “the DRAM …
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