For the full year, HP was the global leader, with 17.9% share, followed by Acer at 12.9%, Dell at 12%, Lenovo at 9.7% and Toshiba at 5.4%.
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Hitachi's total borrowings minus cash and short-term investments amount to only 21% of its shareholders' funds, compared with 127% at Toshiba and 180% at Mitsubishi Electric.
Researchers at Toshiba receive a one-time payment when an application is made for a patent.
At Toshiba, meanwhile, "they let five guys help me on a part-time basis, " Masuoka says.
Liebman Memorial Award in recognition of his invention of flash memory while he worked at Toshiba.
Olivier Van Wynendaele, Deputy General manager of HD DVD at Toshiba, calls the Blu-ray claims "propaganda" and disputes the Blu-ray points.
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Back home, his superiors at Toshiba were mildly surprised when a number of U.S. computer companies, including Intel and also some automobile manufacturers, asked for samples.
"The AL13SE Series provides enterprise customers with capacities up to 900GB that support a broad range of enterprise applications, " said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit.
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Morgan Securities analyst Christopher Danely said Intel will lower prices to keep AMD at bay at Toshiba, just as it did when AMD won a slice of Dell 's business last year.
While that figure won't send your electric meter into Whirling Dervish mode, the CEO of Toshiba says that at sizes beyond 30-inches, OLEDs consume 2 - 3 times more juice than LCDs.
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Morgan Securities analyst Christopher Danely said Intel will lower prices to keep AMD at bay at Toshiba, just as it did when AMD won a slice of Dell 's (nyse: DELL - news - people ) business last year.
Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo (also twice, for an early report on huge multinational stakes in gas drilling off Russia's Sakhalin Island and a profile of a frustrated inventor at Toshiba) and Deborah Orr in New York, for her account of the Barilla pasta family.
Four months after he joined Toshiba in 1971, Masuoka, who had just received a doctorate from Tohoku University, invented a type of memory known as SAMOS. After five years at Toshiba, he invented another type and was moved to the semiconductor production division, where he developed a 1-megabit DRAM.
When Sony insisted that its single-sided disc was superior for personal computers, Matsushita came up with a single-sided, dual-layered disc that the Toshiba consortium immediately adopted for computer use. (Matsushita had been working on its own DVD format before joining forces with Toshiba.) At the Berlin Electronics Show last month, executives from Sony and Philips confirmed that they had resumed talks aborted earlier with the Toshiba alliance.
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Toshiba presented this development at the 2013 International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco, CA on February 20(1).
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Dr Bjorn Stenger, once one of Professor Cipolla's doctoral students and now employed at the Toshiba lab, sees a number of uses: "Sending messages to your friends with your face on it, " he suggests.
Toshiba demoed the boldest new set at CES: a glasses-free 3D TV.
Toshiba was awarded a Visionary product award at SV 2013 for its MQ01ABDH hybrid HDD.
Like other companies, Toshiba is offering a Core i3 CPU at that base price.
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Sure, Toshiba is in the memory game but at that time I was focused on DRAM.
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ENGADGET: Toshiba slims down its LED lit HDTVs with UL605, SL400 series
The mobile market continues to evolve at a rapid rate with new smartphones and tablets being introduced by Apple, Samsung, Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba, Vizio and other big companies at a brisk (almost monthly) pace.
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
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At the same time, the Toshiba spokesperson indicated USB charging was also a possibility.
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Before its annual results were announced, Toshiba shares closed down 0.68% at 725 yen.
But Sony's main battle is, in fact, with Toshiba, says Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities.
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