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How Japan Learned Semiconductors
Asianometry
Asianometry traces the 30-year rise and peak of Japan's semiconductor industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, covering how a postwar country gained competence in an emerging technology.
HN points to it as an excellent history of how Japan entered chips, including government-coordinated cooperation like the VLSI project.
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