How was the Toshiba empire defeated step by step by the United States?

How was Toshiba forced step by step into bankruptcy by the United States? I don’t know if you still have an impression of the Toshiba brand. To say how awesome Toshiba is, you can understand it in one sentence. Toshiba at that time was equivalent to Apple today.

For a long time in the past, Toshiba has always been a representative of "Made in Japan". Toshiba has created many "Japanese firsts", such as Japan's first radar, the first color TV, There is also the world's first laptop computer, which was made by Toshiba. Toshiba can even be said to be a national treasure company in Japan. But this "national treasure" has now been reduced to the point where it can only protect itself by selling off its properties and dividing the family. On the road to Toshiba's demise, there is a huge driving force - the United States.

The United States has been Big Brother for a long time, so naturally it doesn’t like having someone on top of it, and Toshiba is the one who violated this taboo. How good was Japan in the semiconductor industry at that time? The entire semiconductor field was divided between the two giants Toshiba and Nippon Electric. At its peak, its market share reached 80%. Toshiba even beat Intel and AMD, which were just starting in the United States, and even forced Intel to give up its resistance until it was in financial crisis. The above With such a mountain pressing down on us, when will American companies be able to come forward?

So the United States has been dissatisfied with Toshiba for a long time. It usually does a lot of small things, such as frequent censorship, export restrictions, and raising standards. But for the giant Toshiba, it is not painful or itchy. , the United States needs a legitimate reason to attack Toshiba. The pillow happened to come to me when I was dozing off. The "Toshiba incident" in 1987 became the trigger for the United States to attack Toshiba. At that time, Toshiba made a smuggling deal with the Soviet Union and sold 4 advanced submarine CNC propellers to the Soviet Union. Machine tools, this will make the United States more difficult to conduct investigations.

After the incident, the United States was impatient and immediately imposed sanctions on Toshiba and forced Toshiba to sign the "Semiconductor Treaty", which completely ended Toshiba's dumping of electronic products around the world. At the same time, the United States incited public opinion. People spontaneously launched a large-scale boycott of Japanese goods. Under the pressure of the United States step by step, Toshiba's electronic era is finally over.

U.S. companies, which have been suppressed by Toshiba, finally have a day to come forward. The United States has used extreme suppression methods, including a series of measures such as comprehensive bans and tariff penalties. This has resulted in the disappearance of Japan’s semiconductor advantages. Japan’s semiconductor market share fell from 80% to 10%. Samsung took this opportunity to replace Toshiba and become the world's number one. However, Toshiba's semiconductor empire was disintegrated step by step. It was really a turn of events.