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62
CORPORATE HISTORY
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1875 Hisashige Tanaka opened a telegraph equipment factory
(later Shibaura Engineering Works Co., Ltd.) in Shinbashi, Tokyo.
1890 Ichisuke Fujioka and Shoichi Miyoshi established Hakunetsusha & Co.,
Ltd. (later Tokyo Electric Company), in Kyobashi, Tokyo.
1939 Tokyo Electric Company merged with Shibaura Engineering Works
Co., Ltd. and established Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.
1978 Released the first Japanese word processor.
1984 Changed name to Toshiba Corporation.
1985 Developed 1Mb DRAM.
Introduced the world’s first laptop PCs.
1991 Developed 4Mb NAND Flash EEPROM.
1995 Developed the DVD high-density optical disc.
1998
1999
2000 Released SD Card and 1.8-inch HDD.
2001 Released “01 Action Plan. ”
Commercialized the world’s first HDD/DVD video recorder.
Commenced joint development of Cell, the next-generation
processor, with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and IBM
Corporation.
2002 Withdrew from commodity DRAM business.
Formed a joint venture with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. for LCDs.
2003 Home Appliance, IT-Solution and Medical System businesses
transferred and integrated with subsidiaries.
2004 Joined the United Nations’ Global Compact.
Developed the world’s smallest direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC).
Released a 64 multi-slice CT system.
2005 Developed 8Gb NAND Flash memory.
2006 Westinghouse Group joined the Toshiba Group (acquired shares of
Westinghouse from British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)).
Developed 16Gb NAND Flash memory.
Released the world’s first HD DVD players and hard disc recorder
mounted with HD DVD.
Released the world’s first AV notebook compatible with both
terrestrial digital broadcasting and HD DVD.
Achieved cumulative sales of 50 million notebook PCs.
Achieved cumulative output of 40 million 1.8-inch HDDs.
Governance structure Significant events
Introduced corporate
executive officer system.
Introduced in-house
company system.
Adopted the “Company
with Committees” system
and introduced Corporate
Social Responsibility
Division.