The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors (2022)
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The US companies made a bet that step-and-repeat was the future of photolithography. They were entirely correct, but it took longer than expected to make it work well and bring the cost down.
However, in the meantime, the Japanese continued refining scan photolithography and absolutely slaughtered the US companies on production cost.
Eventually, scan lithography ran out of gas and the situation reversed--the US companies were similar production cost and could produce chips that the Japanese couldn't even try without retooling everything.
Brings back memories of the 1000's of Japanese made IC's I've seen in my life. Nec (uPD...), Toshiba (TC...), Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Sony custom IC's, Yamaha sound & video chips, OKI, Ricoh, Sharp & others.
Come to think of it, most simpler IC's (voltage regulators, 74LS logic, opamps etc) back in the day was US (TI) or even EU made (Philips, ST).
Especially Nec had extensive databooks (late 70s/early 80s) with everything from CPUs (including V20, V30, or 2nd source like Z80), various types of memory, peripherals like LCD controllers, that famous 765 floppy controller, 4-bit microcontrollers, early DSPs (7720 family), etc, etc.
If you're into this stuff:
has a nice archive of databooks like these.