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With a focus on memory, most notably NAND Flash Memory,
and storage, including SSD and HDD, the company
promotes the semiconductor and storage products business
as well as discrete semiconductors, mixed signal IC, logic LSI
and CMOS image sensors. We cover a wide range of  elds,
and in addition to strengthening the technologies at the
core of every business, by coordinating these technologies
and responding to the big data society, we are providing the
ideal solutions for con guring our customers’ systems.
Discrete Business
In FY2013, while sales of mainstay power devices and
photocouplers, particularly for automotive and industrial
applications, remained stable, costs incurred with the start-
up of white LED products took their toll, with the result that
we recorded increased sales but reduced profit. Going
forward we aim to return to stable growth by making steady
progress on new product development, increasing our share
of the automotive
and industrial  elds
in our core area of
power devices, and
expanding our
lineup of white
LEDs.
In small signal devices and photocouplers, a new back-
end process facility to replace that inundated by the 2011
ooding in Thailand was completed in August 2013. The site
area of the new facility is about 1.4 times that of the old one,
and introduction of the latest production lines is helping us
to boost productivity. We will continue to manufacture
products for which we expect to see future demand
increases, in such areas as industrial equipment, digital
consumer electronics and mobile phones.
System LSI business
Sluggish sales in logic LSIs for consumer electronics and
digital cameras and CMOS image sensors resulted in lower
revenue and reduced pro t in FY2013. Regarding the future,
in the mixed-signal business we will focus our resources on
three areas, motor controls, communications and image
recognition, and steadily promote new businesses. In the
Semiconductor & Storage Products Company
Discrete semiconductors
logic LSI business we will continue to develop new solutions
businesses centered on application processors, including
devices for wearable devices. In CMOS image sensors we will
emphasize expanding our line-up of general-purpose
products, and make new forays into high value-added areas.
On the strength of these measures, we aim to expand sales
and establish a pro table business constitution.
Memory business
In FY2013, we recorded a major increase in sales, driven by
strong demand, continued achievement of cost reductions
through process migration, and the optimization of product
sales areas, and achieved record operating income.
The company will continue to make steady progress
in process migration, lead the world in technical
capabilities, and respond to the continuing growth in
demand for storage
by introducing new
memory products.
A Japanese print ad for an image recognition processor LSI for automotive applications
NAND Flash memory fabricated with the world’s
rst 15nm process
Electronic Devices & Components Segment
42 TOSHIBA Annual Report 2014