Transistor Radio Decline
The emergence of Hong Kong in the transistor radio market resulted in the decline of Japanese participation in the late-1960s. Japan continued to dominate the electronics and semiconductor markets, but now shied away from radio manufacturing leaving production to not only Hong Kong, but also Korea, Taiwan, and other Pacific Rim countries who picked up where Japan left off. Currently, China is the foremost producer of transistor radios. In 1970 the last assembly line producing transistor radios in America shut down. The Zenith Trans-Oceanic 7000 was the last American-made transistor radio.
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