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Traces the struggle between US and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with managed trade embodied in the US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement.

(Paperback)

In this detailed analysis of the origins and evolution of government support for computer technology in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, Kenneth Flamm compares the amounts these countries have invested and how they have organised public and private funding over the past thirty-five years.