Well yeah, just like everyone else's industries. And the US government was silently encouraging it to create a Capitalist bulwark against Communism in Asia. Th

Well yeah, just like everyone else's industries. And the US government was silently encouraging it to create a Capitalist bulwark against Communism in Asia. That doesn't change that in the mid-70's the Japanese chip manufacturers were failing, and by "pooling together a bunch of also-ran teams together" they actually made better quality chips than the US, not just cheaper ones.