US Memories Inc may sound like a greeting-cardcompany. In fact, it was the name for a proposedindustry-wide joint venture to keep the US in thememory chip business at the end of the 1980s, asthe sector reeled from a Japanese corporateonslaught.
美国记忆公司(US Memories Inc)听起来可能像一家贺卡公司。实际上,这是上世纪80年代末为保持美国在芯片业中的地位,拟成立的全行业合资公司的名字,当时美国芯片业在日本公司的冲击下茫然失措。
US Memories is a forgotten footnote in the technology history books. The attempt atcollective action failed when some of the backers got cold feet. Instead, the fight back, when itcame, took a far more American form: an entrepreneurial start-up from the unlikely locationof Boise, Idaho, called Micron Technology.
美国记忆公司在科技史书籍上是一个被遗忘的注脚。当一些支持者临阵退缩的时候,集体努力失败了。实际上,最终发起的反击采取了更为美国的形式:一家名为美光科技(Micron Technology)的创业企业,公司所在地令人意外地位于爱达荷州博伊西。
Now the US faces another challenge from Asia in the chips that act as one of the most basiccomponents of the digital world. News this month that Tsinghua Unicom, an offshoot ofBeijing’s Tsinghua University, has been weighing up an offer for Micron has provoked apredictable ripple of nationalist angst. When kites like this are flown in public, it is often tofind out what the reaction to a formal offer would be. On cue, Republican senator John McCainworried publicly about the “potential national security implications if the US lost a significantposition in memory chips. That Tsinghua is a Chinese state-owned company was among thefactors weighing on the his mind.
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