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US Memories Folds (Was Re: Here are five counterexamples)

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From: Jim Barnes
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 13:40
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In article <104@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>In article <7375@drilex.UUCP> dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:
>>The somewhat scary thing is that you seem to wish that it does.  The sure
>>way to make American industry weak is to protect it from the outside.
>>In this case, the protection would be largely from capital investment, which
>>is very important in the semiconductor business.

<... stuff deleted on competition in supercomputers >

From the Jan. 16 Boston Globe:

LACK OF MONEY ENDS US MEMORIES PROJECT

"US Memories Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., formed six months ago to ease
American dependence on foreign computer memory chips, yesterday said the
venture had been terminated without ever making a single chip.

"Sanford Kane, president of US Memories, said the venture folded because
it could not find enough outside investors.

"Analysts said it was an example of American industry's failure to nurture
innovation for the sake of the industry rather than individual corporate
performance."

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  Jim Barnes (barnes@Xylogics.COM)
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Subject: US Memories Folds (Was Re: Here are five counterexamples)
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