Forecasts of the impending demise of the U.S. semiconductor indus- try in the late 1980s were considerably overstated. After declining through much of the 1980s, U.S. semiconductor firms undertook corrective actions on several fronts. They exited from product lines in which their historic skills at product innovation provided limited competitive advantage and their foreign competitor's superior access to capital made long-term competition difficult.
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