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Fairchild Semiconductor

California semiconductor manufacturer whose 1987 near-sale by Schlumberger to Fujitsu — blocked politically, not legally — anchors the vault's clearest "wrong villain" correction: the deal, not the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal, drove the Exon-Florio Amendment. Structurally, Fairchild is also the corporate parent of the vault's neural-net thread: Intel, founded by Fairchild defectors in 1968, later fabricated the DARPA-funded Ni1000 chip — making Fairchild the single node where the vault's two 1980s "Japan panic" branches (investment protectionism and defense-funded neural nets) turn out to be, literally, parent and child.

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The Congressional Research Service credits the Exon-Florio Amendment (CFIUS's investment veto) to the 1987 Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not the Toshiba-Kongsberg submarine scandal

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Fujitsu's bid for 80 percent of Fairchild Semiconductor exposed that pre-1988 CFIUS was merely advisory, forcing its review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act instead of a national-security veto

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Graham & Marchick (2006) independently corroborate the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not Toshiba-Kongsberg, as the trigger for the Exon-Florio Amendment

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Intel, which fabricated the DARPA-funded Ni1000 neural chip, was founded in 1968 by Fairchild defectors — making the firm whose attempted foreign takeover prompted Exon-Florio the corporate parent of the chip's maker

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Mike Mansfield, who sponsored the 1969 Mansfield Amendment, later became the longest-serving US Ambassador to Japan (1977–1988)

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Nestor Inc. sold commercial neural-network pattern recognition through the AI winter yet had never turned a profit after 19 years

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David M. Marchick

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Edward M. Graham

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Senator James Exon

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