Lies, damned lies and semiconductor market share statistics: the US, relying on figures from the independent World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organisation and collects figures from vendors, reckons that foreign chipmakers had 13.2% of the Japanese market in fourth quarter 1990, the Ministry of International Trade & Industry reckons foreigners had 19% of the market, but it collects statistics from users, and crucially – and surely reasonably – includes the IBM-made chips that go into machines made and sold in Japan by IBM Japan.
