Facing challenges, Toshiba focuses on these four hot areas

As the world's top ten semiconductor manufacturer, Toshiba has a history of more than 140 years since its establishment. After a hundred years of trials and hardships, Toshiba originally estimated that its profit in 2016 would be around 316 billion yen, becoming the second highest profit year. Unfortunately, Toshiba had to decide to split the Memory department because of the loss of Westinghouse's nuclear power project.

Why did Toshiba split the Memory division?

Recently, news of Toshiba's split semiconductor division and major manufacturers' investment in Toshiba Memory continues to appear. Regarding this hot issue, at Toshiba's press conference during the 2017 Shanghai Munich Electronics Show, the editor of the electronic enthusiast network learned the details through the chairman and general manager of Toshiba Electronics (China) Co., Ltd. Mr. Tanaka.

Mr. Kirito Tanaka said: “Toshiba’s semiconductor and storage businesses have almost created the highest sales and profit records in the past year, and the development prospects are very good. It was originally expected that Toshiba’s profitability would be very good from April 2016 to the end of March 2017. Toshiba's history is a year with good profits. But it is a pity that at the end of 2016, including the beginning of 2017, due to the estimated loss of Westinghouse in the United States related to nuclear power projects, this estimated loss has a huge impact on our company’s financial affairs. By the end of March 2017 There is the possibility of insolvency. Based on this risk, the company has decided to split the Toshiba Memory division."

According to Tanaka, Toshiba will hold a Toshiba Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in Tokyo in the near future to discuss whether to split the flash memory division (including the SSD business) that originally belonged to the semiconductor division. If approved, Toshiba Memory will become a new company on April 1. company of. At this point in time, Toshiba Memory is independent and still holds 100% of Toshiba. In the next year, it will continue to supply products to the market under the Toshiba Memory brand, and will prepare for the introduction of external investment in the future.

As a century-old semiconductor manufacturer, how will Toshiba deal with the challenge this time? We looked for answers from the Toshiba booth at the 2017 Munich Shanghai Electronics Show. Mr. Nomura Nomura, deputy general manager of Toshiba Electronics (China) Co., Ltd., introduced: “Toshiba is participating in the Shanghai Munich Electronics Fair for the fourth consecutive time this year. Exciting products and solutions were exhibited in the four popular areas of automotive electronics and storage."

Facing challenges, Toshiba focuses on these four hot areas

2017 Shanghai Munich Electronics Fair Toshiba Press Conference Site

Automotive electronic product upgrade

This time Toshiba exhibited the VisconTIâ„¢ series of image recognition processors based on the advanced driver assistance system ADAS. It is understood that the product planning of the VisconTIâ„¢ series is mainly based on the standards of some mainstream countries. VisconTI2â„¢ is based on the European NCAP 2016 requirements. For development, VisconTI4â„¢ is designed in accordance with the requirements of the EU's 2018 crash standards.

Facing challenges, Toshiba focuses on these four hot areas

Nomura Nomura said: "Compared with the 2016 standard, the biggest difference of Visconti4â„¢ is the increased recognition of pedestrians and cars at night and in low-light conditions. From the comparison in the figure below, we can find that Visconti4â„¢ is similar to Visconti2â„¢. Its multimedia processor has been increased from the original four to eight, and a lot of algorithms and image hardware accelerators have been added. The processing performance has been significantly improved, and it can realize eight ADAS recognition functions at the same time. In addition, the addition of 3D reconstruction (SFM) ) The function can detect general obstacles."

Facing challenges, Toshiba focuses on these four hot areas

Facing challenges, Toshiba focuses on these four hot areas

In addition to popular ADAS products, we also saw Toshiba's Cparicornâ„¢ and ETC smart rearview mirror solutions that support virtual and hybrid meters.

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