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The Eurochip | Roy Cobby

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The quest for the European microchip from the 1980s to the present

The Eurochip - Roy Cobby The headline “World trade war looms over microchip accord” seems like it could come from any news source today, but it in fact appeared in Nature back in February 1987, when the US had signed bilateral agreements with Japan to promote its own semiconductor exports and limit imports from the latter. European governments, in turn, were angry at what they saw as the cartelization of the global market. The then-European Economic Community (EEC) threatened to take the US and Japan to the then-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for violating international trade pr

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