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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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"It is worth noting that even some big inventions and research, like Computed Tomography, which technically were invented in other countries, failed to develop until they became United States products."

EMI (British) was the innovator(Hounsfield) and dominant CT machine in the seventies.
It looked as if 1977 would be a very good year for EMI Medical Inc., a North American subsidiary of EMI Ltd. EMI’s CT scanner had met with enormous success in the American market. In the three years since the scanner’s introduction, EMI medical electronics sales had grown to £42 million.
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