Despite being on the verge of bankruptcy, it is undeniable that the technology giant's role in the world.
There are probably few electronics companies in the world involved in such areas as Toshiba. The technology giant is the starter of most inventions of electrical products in the country. In the consumer electronics segment, the name of the company has appeared on a wide range of digital electronics, from televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators to laptops, tablets, DVD players, printer, office equipment.
Prior to the competition from competitors from Korea and China, Toshiba's electronics products have made important contributions to the world of modern technology. Here are some of Toshiba's most innovative products:
Toshiba Cell Regza 55X1
Launched in 2009, this Toshiba product is considered the world's first LCD television to integrate the Cell Broadband Engine, a CPU architecture that includes a Power PC multifunction processor and eight co-processor Developed by the Sony, IBM and Toshiba alliances.Comes with a powerful processor, this 55 "screen TV has unprecedented features at the time of its release, such as resolution of up to 3840 x 2160, can display and record up to 8 channels together. time, 3TB hard drive allows the storage of HD programs up to 26 hours, screen scans up to 240Hz. Comes with the above features is a terrible price at the time of debut: 1 million yen (about 11,115 dollars at the time).
Toshiba HD-XA1 and HD-A1
At the end of August 2006, amid steadily growing sales of home video equipment, Toshiba became the first company in the world to launch high-definition HD DVD players, HD-XA1 and HD-A1, priced at $ 799 and $ 499.While the Blu-ray discs, backed by Sony, have higher capacities than the HD DVD format developed by Toshiba, Toshiba's HD DVD players are at a premium. Competitors have helped make the disc format a standard in the entertainment industry. Also in 2006, Toshiba introduced the Qosmio G30 laptop, the world's first Notebook PC with an HD DVD drive.Toshiba 1.8 "HDD
When it comes to seeing the current MP3 players too bad, Steve Jobs, who recently returned to Apple after a long time away from seeing this as a golden opportunity to enter the entertainment market. He asked Jon Rubinstein, head of Apple's hardware department, to see if the company could do better.After a few weeks of research, Rubinstein realized that this was an impossible project when batteries and memory were too limited. At the time when Rubinstein was about to give up the project, Toshiba introduced him a new 1.8-inch drive, and that's what Rubinstein needed for Apple's first iPod. With up to 5GB of memory, the first iPod can store up to 1,000 songs in it, a record compared to other competitors in 2001. And from here the iPod reputation began.
NAND Flash memory technology
Flash memory has become a popular product in today's technology life, without it, it will be difficult to imagine smartphones or digital cameras as well as USB devices. How does it work? Despite its popularity in the past 10 years, this technology has been invented by Toshiba engineer Fujio Masuoka since the 1980s.Since its introduction at the IEEE International Electron Devices Conference in 1987, the company has consistently contributed to the advancement of this technology until recently. In 1999, Toshiba and Matsushita (later Panasonic) and SanDisk developed the SD (Secure Digital memory card) format and later became the industry standard. By 2001, SanDisk, the world's first commercially available 1Gb NAND flash chip, was introduced. By 2015, Toshiba became the first company to successfully develop 48-layer 3D memory.
Laptop Toshiba T1100
In 1985, the device was considered "the world's first mass-produced notebook," the Toshiba T1100. Even without a hard drive, it has to run completely on a floppy disk with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 CPU and a monochrome LCD screen with a resolution of 640x200, but compared to the heavier PCs of the same era, this can be viewed. was the "Macbook Air" at the time, when it was light enough to be carried in a balloon (4.1kg).Along with the later notebook versions, the T1000 and T1200, the Toshiba T1100 became one of the first to shape the concept of a laptop with battery-powered functionality, instead of having to plug it in. direct. At the time of launch, this computer costs $ 1,899 ($ 4,229 in 2016)
