Chip War
Metadata
- Author: Chris Miller
- ASIN: B09RX4SD88
- ISBN: 1398504106
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RX4SD88
- Kindle link
Highlights
Sony’s first major success was transistor radios, such as the radio Prime Minister Ikeda had given de Gaulle. Several years earlier, Texas Instruments had tried to market transistor radios, but though it had the necessary technology, TI bungled the pricing and marketing and quickly abandoned the business. — location: 818
Only consumer markets had the volume to fund the vast R&D programs that Moore’s Law required. — location: 1191
But the mundane reality was that GCA didn’t listen to its customers, while Nikon did. Chip firms that interacted with GCA found it “arrogant” and “not responsive.” No one said that about its Japanese rivals. — location: 1401