Kobayashi, Bujirou oral history
[This oral history is one of seven recorded in December 2014 with former leaders in the Japanese semiconductor industry.] Kobayashi-san was born in 1924 and graduated from what is now Yamaguchi University in 1944 with a degree in mechanical engineering.. He then joined Mitsubishi Electric Corp. After a number of production management and quality control positions, he was appointed by S. Shindo, President of Mitsubishi to take responsibility for the Kita-Itami Works and to improve the technology and quality of Mitsubishi’s semiconductor products. He was subsequently responsible for the conception and construction of a fully automated semiconductor manufacturing plant in Saijo, Japan in the 1980’s. This plant became a model of how semiconductors would be produced in the future.
Item Details
- Date
- 2014-12-13 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102740051
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Bujirou Kobayashi (Interviewee)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
Stanley T. Myers (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 13 p.
- Place of publication
- Asia/Japan/Osaka
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7370.2015
- Subject
- Semiconductor History, DRAM, MITI
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Japanese semiconductor pioneers