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Internal Memo No. 22
From: Hiromu Ikeda, Deputy Minister of Industrial Technology Sector,Ministry of International Trade and Industry
(MITI)
Subject: SUPERCHIPS
World dominance in semiconductors will provide the basis for Japan'scontrol of the global information industry by the turn of the century,which will be the key to our economic leadership and military strength.The critical path to achieving this lies with the coming generations ofsemiconductor technology--the submicron, giga-scale superchip.Accordingly, the objectives of Operation Market- share - 90 in thesemiconductor sector should receive the highest possible priority.Areas of research should include semiconductor-grade polysilicon,silicon wafer production, ceramic packaging, quartz photomasks, X-raylithography, supercooled Josephson junction circuits, andoptoelectronic chips for optical switching. R&D should also be focusedon digital signal processing, application-specific integrated circuits(ASICs), specialized dynamic random access memories (DRAMs), verylarge-scale integrations (VLSIs) for supercomputers . . .