Fujitsu's Fairchild bid had already collapsed by late March 1987, roughly three months before the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal became public in the United States

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TIME's March 30, 1987 item reports Fujitsu had, "last week," dropped its bid for 80 percent of Fairchild Semiconductor — placing the withdrawal in roughly the third week of March 1987. George R. Packard's Foreign Affairs essay independently corroborates the month: "In March of this year Fujitsu Ltd. was discouraged from acquiring the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation on competitive and national security grounds." On the Toshiba side, Packard describes Japanese television on "the morning of July 2, 1987" broadcasting the previous day's Capitol Hill sledgehammer stunt — consistent with the July 1, 1987 UPI wire date already carried in claim-csm-1987-dia-naval-intelligence-toshiba-assessment-years-dollars's cluster — and separately places the Senate's Toshiba-sanctions vote "in late June"; he adds that the sledgehammer scene itself "was largely ignored by the American media," so his essay bounds the scandal's arrival in American public discourse at latest late June–early July 1987 without dating its first disclosure. By that bound, the Fairchild deal was dead roughly three months — at most — before Toshiba-Kongsberg peaked in American public discourse, and dead before it entered that discourse on any reading these sources allow.

[unverified-quant — needs primary]: the two dates are carried only by contemporaneous journalism (TIME, unsigned; Packard, a named expert essayist), not a government primary, so exact-day precision is not sourced above the quantitative-claim floor. The roughly-three-month gap itself is corroborated independently on both ends — a March 1987 report of the withdrawal and a July 1987 report of the Toshiba disclosure, from two unrelated publications — and is not contradicted anywhere this session searched.

This rules out the most intuitive causal story a reader might guess from a cosine pairing of the two claim clusters: that outrage over Toshiba hardened the government's posture toward Fujitsu's Fairchild bid. The timing runs the other way, if it runs at all — Fairchild's episode was resolved first. See claim-packard-1987-frames-fujitsu-fairchild-and-toshiba-kongsberg-as-parallel-not-causal for the companion finding that no source frames the two as causally linked at all.