Toshiba

Toshiba (東芝株式会社, Tōshiba Kabushiki-gaisha) is a manufacturer Japan electronic board of material and Informatique. It is the largest manufacturer of Semi-conducteur S of the Japan. In 2005, the company is world number 3 , behind Intel and Texas Instruments, but in front of STMicroelectronics.

This company is directed by Tadashi Okamura. The name Toshiba is often written in red on the products of the company. In 2002, it announced the suppression of 18.000 employment. It had 190.000 uses in 2001 on a world level.

See also: the classification of the first 20 manufacturers of semiconductors with the passing of years

History

Birth of an industrial giant

Toshiba was founded starting from the fusion of two companies in 1939.

The first company, Tanaka Seizosho (Work of Ingéniegerie Tanaka), was the first manufacturer of the telegraphic Japan of material. It was founded by Hisashige Tanaka in 1875. In 1904, the name of the company was modified in Shibaura Seisakusho (Work of Ingéniegerie Shibaura). During first half of the XX {{E}} century, the company became a major manufacturer of cumbersome machinery to the Japan, and was modernized during the Ère Meiji, to become a company of international scale.

The second company, named originally Hakunetsusha , was founded in 1890. It was the first Japanese producer of lamps incandescent. The company diversified in the manufacture of other products of great consumption, and it was famous Tōkyō Denki (Electricity of Tokyo) in 1899.

Fusion in 1939 of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tōkyō Denki gave rise to a new baptized company Tō kyō Shiba will ura Denki. It was soon called Toshiba , but it is only in 1984 that the firm was officially selected Toshiba Corporation .

From 1939 to 2000

The group knew a very strong expansion, at the same time thanks to its internal growth but also from many acquisitions, buying firms of the primary sector and heavy industry in the years 1940 and 1950 and transforming them into subsidiary companies of the group as from the years 1970. The group thus created gathers Toshiba EMI (1960), Toshiba Electrical equipment (1974), Toshiba Railroads (1974), Toshiba Éclairage and Technologie (1989) and Toshiba Transports (1999).

In 1987, the company was shown of illegal sale of Fraiseuse S automatics used by the Soviet Union to produce engines Sous-marin S very quiet, thus violating the agreement of the CoCom. The incident put in tension the relations between the the United States and the Japan and had like consequence the continuation and the arrest of two senior officers, as well as the catch of sanctions on the company by the two countries.

Since 2000

In 2001, Toshiba signed a contract with Orion Electric, one of the first world OEM in the field of the manufacture of visual electronics components, to manufacture and provide the consumer in video material so that Toshiba can satisfy the increasing demand of the market Nord-américain.

In December 2004, Toshiba announced that it would gradually stop the manufacture of Télévision S with cathode tubes.

In 2006, the company puts a term at its production of screens plasma. The company quickly transferred to Orion the production from the cathodic television sets and plasma from mark Toshiba . However, to be present and ensure its future competitiveness on the market of the numerical flat panel displays, Toshiba made a considerable investment in a new generation of technology of posting called SED.

Innovations

The company, from its tradition of the innovation, was responsible for many first technological with the Japan, of which, inter alia, the Radar S (1942), the Télévision with Transistor S and the Microwawe oven (1959), the Visiophonie (1971), IRM (1982), the laptops (1986), NAND EEPROM (1991), DVD (1995), and HD-DVD (2005). Toshiba also developed a disc of a size of 1,8 inch of a capacity of 80 Giga-octet.

In April 2007, Toshiba leaves the model laptop QOSMIO G30-147, equipped with a processor Intel Core 2 Duet T7200 which does of it one of the most powerful laptops of the market in the world, it holds also the record of greatest memory capacity for a laptop, with 2 hard drives of 200 Go which add up 400 Go.

Toshiba & Mitsui

Before the Second world war, Toshiba was a member of the Zaibatsu Mitsui. Today, Toshiba belongs to the Keiretsu Mitsui (together of companies, of fields varied, maintaining between them the cross participations), and always profited from special relationships with the banks Mitsui and the other members of the Keiretsu. Adhesion with one of these groups traditionally means fidelity towards the other members of same the Keiretsu or with allied Keiretsu. This honesty can even extend, for example, with the choice of the mark of Bière consumed by the employees of the company, which was the case of Toshiba with the Japanese mark Kirin.

Products

See too

  • the Electronic Management of the Documents by Toshiba
  • solutions of impression Toshiba

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Official site

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