Chip engineers abandoned Hitachi, NEC, Sony and other Japanese electronics companies in droves, starting in the second half of the 1990s. Samsung Electronics of

Chip engineers abandoned Hitachi, NEC, Sony and other Japanese electronics companies in droves, starting in the second half of the 1990s. Samsung Electronics of South Korea hired many on favorable terms ... Apparently, in the 1980s, Japan used to outlaw Japanese engineers traveling to South Korea to advise South Korean companies. Ultimately, this strategy failed.