Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) announced today that the company has applied for membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and plans to introduce products that support the Blu-ray format.
As a market leader in digital technologies, Toshiba provides a wide range of advanced digital products, such as DVD recorders and players, HDTVs and notebook PCs that [...]

– Achieved a Record-High Hole Mobility by Forming an Ultra-Thin Strontium Germanide (SrGex) Interlayer —
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6052) today announced a significant advance in the development of a gate stack and interlayer with high carrier mobility that can be applied to advanced metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) in future generations of LSIs.
The ultra-thin, Equivalent Oxide [...]

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) announced today that on May 14, 2009, Toshiba filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Imation Corp. (“Imation”), several manufacturers and several distributors of recordable DVD media, as a means to prohibit infringement of Toshiba’s DVD patents. Toshiba’s complaint seeks damages for past [...]

Nakaya Microdevices Corporation (NMD), Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR) and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding expressing their intent to form a joint venture in Japan that will provide system LSI assembly and testing services. The structure, terms and amounts of each party’s contributions and other [...]

Exhibition at Milan Salone introduces Toshiba products and approach to delivering energy-efficient lighting for the 21st century
Milan Salone
Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company will start a major initiative to launch its new lighting business in Europe and the U.S.A.. As the initial step, the company will set up a marketing base for new [...]

128-Megabit Density with Read and Write Speed of 1.6-Gigabytes a Second
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM —Ferroelectric Random Access Memory—that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new chip realizes storage of 128-megabits and read and write speeds of 1.6-gigabytes a second, the most advanced combination of [...]

-Toshiba Starts Supply of Core Broadcasting Systems to Fuji TV Network-
Toshiba Corporation and SGI Japan, Ltd. today announced that they have developed full HD file-based TV program broadcasting systems and core broadcasting systems, including master control equipment. A terrestrial broadcasting system has already been released and delivered to Japan’s Fuji Television Network, Inc., and [...]

– Company Plans to Enhance Presence and Elevator Business in China and Southeast Asia —
Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corporation (TELC) today announced that it has reached a basic agreement with Hong Kong-based Chevalier International Holdings Limited (CIHL) on further promoting and expanding the elevator and escalator business in the global market, with a [...]

Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company’s JW-10 Japanese Language Word Processor has been certificated under the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) Milestone Program. The decision acknowledges the immense impact of Toshiba’s development of the JW-10: not only was it Japan’s first word processor, it was a breakthrough that brought the [...]

Toshiba Corporation announced today that a Toshiba-Westinghouse consortium has been awarded a ten-year contract worth over 100 million euros by Electricité de France (EDF), France’s electric power company, for the renewal of stator coils in the generators of more than ten nuclear power plants now operating in France. The contract was given to the Toshiba-Westinghouse [...]