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management >>
Adopted the “Company with
Committees System” with three
committees: Nomination, Audit
and Compensation.
management >>
Established five new group com-
panies of Home Appliances, e-
Solutions, Medical Systems,
Materials and Components, and
Electron Tubes in order to
enhance each business within
Toshiba Group and to build
optimized management systems.
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business >>
Toshiba Medical Systems
Company released a medical
diagnostic multi-slice CT system
equipped with the world’s first
technology to scan 64 slices
simultaneously at 0.5mm a slice.
technology >>
Developed a 0.85-inch hard disk
drive, with a disk diameter of
only 22mm. Officially recognized
in the Guinness World Records
as “the world’s smallest HDD.”
business >>
Launched sales of the “Qosmio”
AV notebook PC series, which
integrated the digital AV func-
tions of LCD TVs and DVD
recorders, and employing the
“QosmioEngine,” an integrated
system of 11 different image pro-
cessing functions for superb
image quality.
business >>
Operation of the world’s first
nuclear power station with an
Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
(ABWR) started.
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business >>
Commercialized the world’s first
magnetic disk drives to adopt a
GMR head. Achieved 3.2GB of
data storage, the industry’s high-
est capacity on a hard disk drive
only 8.45mm thin.
management >>
Introduced “Executive Officer
System.”
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business >>
Entered into a strategic relation-
ship with SanDisk Corporation in
the NAND Flash memory busi-
ness.
management >>
Abolished the “Business Group
System” and introduced an “In-
house Company System.”
technology >>
Concluded an agreement with
Canon Inc. for joint development
of SED, a next generation, large
screen flat panel display.
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technology >>
Developed the world’s first 12.1-
inch large-sized, low temperature
polysilicon LCDs. Established
competitive superiority in small
and medium-sized LCD market.
technology >>
Agreed to start joint develop-
ment with Sony Computer
Entertainment Inc. and IBM
Corporation on “CELL,” a general
purpose processor designed to
be a mainstay for next genera-
tion broadband networks.
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business >>
Released the world’s first perpen-
dicular magnetic recording hard
disk drive. Brought the world’s
highest areal recording density
and a storage capacity of 80GB
to a 1.8-inch magnetic disk only
5mm thin.
business >>
Achieved cumulative sales of 40
million notebook PCs in
November 2005.
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business >>
Entered into a definitive agree-
ment with British Nuclear Fuels
plc. (BNFL) for the acquisition of
Westinghouse. Through a syner-
getic partnership with
Westinghouse, Toshiba aims to
become a leader in the nuclear
power generation business as the
only company able to offer both
BWR and PWR technologies.
technology >>
Developed 8Gbit NAND Flash
memory. Toshiba and SanDisk
Corporation jointly developed
NAND Flash memory circuit
technology that applied 70nm
process technology to achieve a
high memory capacity of 8Gbit
on a single chip.
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