Could Asian nations do an "Airbus"?

[willister]

Originally Posted by Al G

Don't leave out North Korea, He he.

For Kamikaze?

[willister]

Originally Posted by Boo_Urns

Not sure I agree that the electronics industry is necessarily a "step down" from aerospace (having significant experience working in both); but my point is, there is considerable expertise required for both manufacturing a 100 million dollar airplane produced in volumes of 100 per year, and manufacturing a 100 dollar cell phone produced in volumes of 100 million a year. Its all a question of where it makes the most economic sense to deploy resources.

This post can be summed up pretty succinctly:

Could Asian nations do an "Airbus"? Yes.

Will Asian nations do an "Airbus"? Maybe, when it makes economic sense for them to do so.

I've worked in neither, only an armchair "expert"....but surprising that electronics would be in the same level of difficulty as aeronautics.

[PacoMartin]

Originally Posted by willister

I've worked in neither, only an armchair "expert"....but surprising that electronics would be in the same level of difficulty as aeronautics.

No, but they are close in size.

Electronics doesn't need the endless backup engineering. Even if an expensive television breaks, nobody gets hurt.

Commercial electronics was a $208 billion industry in 2014.
Boeing's CEO confirmed the company's full-year 2015 forecast of revenue between $94.5 billion and $96.5 billion. Airbus revenue was 60.7 billion euros in 2014.

I would say that they are pretty close in size when the smaller companies are added to the total.

[hifijohn]

Originally Posted by MountainBiking

Airbus and Boeing control the market. They have a big head start with experience. It'll be hard for a newcomer to enter but it's not entirely impossible. Time will tell.

yes we all laughed at asian countries making cars back in the early 70's now they dominate the car market.