Kubo, Tokuo oral history
[This oral history is one of seven recorded in December 2014 with former leaders in the Japanese semiconductor industry. ] Kubo-san began his career in 1956, joining Nissho Company Limited, a trading company, where he learned about the semiconductor industry. After working in New York with Nissho, he returned to Tokyo, where he founded a new company called Tokyo Electron (TEL). This new company was to be trading company to import and sell semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the Japanese companies who were entering the semiconductor business. This company grew to be a major factor in the Japanese semiconductor ecosystem, not only as a trading company, but as an equipment manufacturer as well. Towards the end of this oral history, Kubo-san discusses the trends and challenges for the industry and Japan moving forward, including cultural changes required in Japanese companies.
Item Details
- Date
- 2014-12-10 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102740046
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Tokuo Kubo (Interviewee)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
Stanley T. Myers (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 26 p.
- Place of publication
- Japan/Tokyo
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7368.2015
- Subject
- Semiconductor History, Kulicke & Soffa, Japanese Semiconductor
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Japanese semiconductor pioneers