19 Sep
2025
19 Sep
'25
5:43 p.m.
Something that I could never understand, . . .
USA decided that Japanese were "dumping" chips (selling below cost to grab
market share)
So USA put a punitive tarriff on handheld power tools and LCD screens.
(NOT on the productsbeing "dumped")
USA manufacturers could no longer get good prices to get LCD screens for
their products.
Somebody (who must remain nameless, due to proximity of quote) said that
Steve Jobs had goals of USA surviving Japan, and Apple surviving IBM.
Jerry Pournelle asked how we could get Mercedes to start dumping.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
On Fri, 19 Sep 2025, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2025-09-19 2:09 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Also prices were volatile; announced at one price, and then up or down on
>> demand
>
> I thought the same was for most chips of that era, here today, gone tomorrow,
> shipping some random day every other week.
>
>> --
>> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
> Ben.