japanese clients: They make fluorinated polyimide, hydrogen fluoride and photoresist essential ingredients for the manufacture of the displays and semiconductors that go into every piece of modern consumer electronics, from Apple Inc. iPhones and Dell Technologies Inc. laptops to the full range of Samsung Electronics Co. devices. ; How did they become so indispensable And how did they manage to stay on top even after their Japanese clients ceded the chip and display markets to Taiwanese and South Korean rivals The answer lies in a series of well-timed investments decades ago, combined with a willingness to explore foreign markets and an unceasing refinement of manufacturing standards too exacting for anyone else to try and match, according to The Japan Times. JSR is an interesting case in that they became big in photoresists because they succeeded overseas first, said Damian Thong, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. The most powerful weapon in Tokyo's campaign against its neighbor turned out to be a half dozen or so niche firms with names like JSR Corp., Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. And much of this success was because of the strategy of one man Mitsunobu Koshiba. Koshiba spearheaded the company's pivot into photoresists, a light-sensitive liquid used to imprint circuits as narrow as a few strands of DNA onto silicon wafers in a process called lithography. The JSR chairman's story shows just how hard it would be for a newcomer to fill the shoes of one of these suppliers.
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