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Sony Corporation (Japanese: ソニー株式会社) is a Japanese Entreprise universally represented, in particular in the fields of the Musique, of the electronic , the Téléphonie, the Informatique, the Cinéma and the audio-visual one. The company, or its firms are commonly selected Sony .

Sony Corporate includes/understands more than one hundred companies throughout the world, of which Sony France SA, Sony Corporation off America, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment. See the undertaken of Sony Corporation.

Processors and graphics processors

RSX is a graphics processor designed in collaboration with Nvidia. Cell was conceived with Toshiba and IBM.

Origin

The company was created on May 7th 1946 by Masaru Ibuka, Engineer, and Akio Morita, physicist, engaging a score of people in a company which repaired electronics components and which tried to create its clean produits.
The name, Sony, come from the Latin sonus which means its , and of the expression English E then sails about it in Japan Sunny servant boy which designates an young graduate with a free spirit and innovator.

1954 will have to be awaited before the company does not start to develop seriously: on this date, the company obtains a license for the manufacture of Transistor S, electronics component basic par excellence. Thus, the first Japanese transistors leave the factories of Sony this year, 6 years after their invention with the the United States. The following year, Sony markets the first Récepteur radio operator entirely containing transistors.

Sony is an international company - Akio Morita recognized upon the departure its company was to regard the whole world as market and not to limit itself to Japan. He insisted that the name Sony appears clearly on all the products of the company. --> general public has problems since 2002: the turnover fell of 4,6% per 2004 (51,5 billion euros), in particular because of South Korean and Chinese competition. --> Sony manufactures also semiconductors but only for its own subsidiary companies. In 2005, Sony point thus in the 13th place of the 20 larger manufacturers of semiconductors.

Sony Corporation today

The current president, since the March 7th 2005, is the English Sir Howard Stringer following the resignation of Nobuyuki Idei. The head office is with Tōkyō with the Japan.

The sales turnover for the whole of the companies and subsidiary of Sony Corporation throughout the world in 2004 rises with nearly 69 billion euros. The company counts 158.500 paid in the world with the March 31st 2006.

The share of Sony in the worldwide market of consumer electronics was estimated in 2004 at more than 14% (in front of Matsushita, Hitachi and Philips).

Fields of production

Audio-video

Memory support

  • Range Video Professional: U-MATIC, 1" C, Betacam, Betacam SP, Betacam SX, numerical Betacam, IMX, HDV, XDCam, XDCAm HD, HDCam, HDCam SR
  • video Range general public: Betamax, Hi8, FD, HDV
  • DIGITAL Audio Types (DAT) (Co-inventor of the R-DAT, reader with rotary heads, with Matsushita)
  • Disquette (at the origin of format 3 ½ inches)
  • Compact Disc (CD) (inventive in partnership with Philips)
  • MiniDisc (MANDELEVIUM) (inventive)
  • DIGITAL Versatile Disc (DVD) (12cm and 8cm)
  • Memory Stick (ms) (inventive)
  • Blu-ray Disc (data base) (principal Co-investigator of Blu-ray with still Matsushita)
  • Universal Media Disc (UMD) (inventive)
  • Key USB, Key USB with minis HDD

Data processing - of which Sony Computer Entertainment

  • Consortium MSX
  • Personal computers VAIO (portable (since at least 2006) and of office (since at least 2006))
  • Personal assistants: Clié (sector given up except in Japan)
  • video Game consoles: PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PSP, PlayStation 3, by Sony Computer Entertainments (SCEI, SCEE, SCEA)

Robots

The January 26th 2006, Sony announces at the same time as its financial results, the abandonment of any development concerning its Aibo robots and Qrio to center itself on more profitable segments.

Production audio-visual - Sony Pictures

  • Gaumont Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
  • Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
  • Sony Pictures Television Group
  • Sony Pictures To consume Products
  • Sony Pictures DIGITAL
    • Sony Pictures Imageworks
    • Sony Pictures Animation
    • Sony Online Entertainment
    • Sony Pictures DIGITAL Networks
      • Spin
      • APG
      • Wireless Services Group
      • SoapCity
      • Screenblast
  • DIGITAL Studios Division
    • Sony Pictures Studios Post Production Facilities
    • DVD Authoring Center
    • Worldwide Product Fulfillment
  • Sony Pictures Studios
  • Range Show Network (participation)
  • MGM (Subway Goldwyn Meyer)

Shareholders

(in March 2004)
  • Moxley and Co. (12.5%)
  • Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Account Trust) (5.3%)
  • The Master Trust Bank off Japan, Ltd. (Account Trust) (4.2%)
  • The Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. London (3.6%)
  • State Street Bank and Trust Company (1.3%)
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (0.9%)
  • The Bank off Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. (0.8%)
  • SEGA Schweizerische Effekten-Giro AG (0.8%)
  • Clearstream Banking S.A. (0.8%)

See too

Internal bond

  • the page Sony in the wikilivre of photography.

External bonds

  • Official site Sony
  • Official site Sony France
  • official Site of sale in line Sony Europe
  • Official site Sony Music
  • Official site Sony Films
  • Walkman
  • Official site Sony NAV-U

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