EADS North America signs up with Toshiba

EADS North America Test and Services, a division of famous European aerospace company, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, signed a contract with top Japanese business conglomerate, Toshiba Corporation. Under the new contract, Toshiba Corporation will use EADS’s 5032 Environmental Stress Screening system. Toshiba will use it for reliability testing of its new 40/45nm semiconductor production technology. Test and Measurement.com reports:

"EADS offers an innovative solution for our cutting-edge reliability testing," commented a senior manager of Toshiba Corporation's System LSI Quality and Reliability Engineering Department. "Precise junction temperature control is the essential element for effective environmental stress testing. Without precise temperature control, production test time is wasted and reliability test results are meaningless. EADS' single-phase technology provides the most accurate closed-loop control for our most advanced device technologies."

EADS North America Test and Services is the leading producer of environmental stress screening systems. The 5032 is the latest environmental stress screening system by EADS North America Test and Services. The 5032 and 5029 systems are used for evaluation purpose and 5030 is used for volume environment stress screening.

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Toshiba unveils its three new laptops: Qosimo F50, Qosimo G50 and Qosimo X 300

At a London Press Conference, Toshiba Corporation announced its new line of laptops.

The Qosmio F50: The ‘baby’ of the group with a 15.4 inch screen.

The Qosmio G50: The Qosmio G50 has an 18.5 inch screen which will remove your desktop computer.

The Qosimo X300: The Qosmio X300 is the updated version of the Satellite X200. It comes with an eye-catching red color.

Features:

• The laptops use Toshiba’s newly developed Quad Core technology. The Quad Core processor is basically the SpursEngine used in Sony PS3. The processor can upscale real time standard definition video.
• The laptops use a separate processor in case of high-definition video and the main processor deals with normal activities like loading files and so on.
• Another interesting feature of these laptops is Gesture Recognition. This option allows you to control certain functions such as pausing and playing movies, waving your hands.
• Toshiba mainly focused on enhanced viewing standard. They are still not equipped for the Blu-ray market.
• All the Qosimo laptops comes with a 640GB hard drive.
• All the Qosimo laptops can take up to 8GB of RAM.
• The new Qosimo laptops are equipped with nVidia GeForce graphics chipsets.
• The new Qosimo laptops has Harmon Kardon speakers.

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Toshiba Corporation sets new target to cut CO2 emission

On June 13^th, Toshiba Corporation (TYO:6502), one of the largest Japanese multinational companies announced an ambitious goal of cutting its CO₂ emission up to 117.7 million tons a year by 2025. This amount is more than double its initial target; 57.6 million tons. In 2007, the company introduced Toshiba Group Environment Vision 2050, where the company set targets for enhancing environment efficiency and raising the company’s overall eco-efficiency. The company is consistently working toward supplying eco-friendly energy system and reducing its CO₂ emissions. The company wants to achieve a total reduction goal of 82 million tons per year through its energy system supply business. Huliq.com reports:

The upward revision in the energy systems business represents Toshiba's determination to increase the contribution from its nuclear power business. Environmental concerns increasingly require the best possible mix of nuclear power thermal power, hydro power, geothermal power and new power sources, and the fact the nuclear power generation is CO2-emission-free gives it an important and rapidly growing role. In fact, the IEA's "Energy Technology Perspectives 2008” shows that meeting the target of halving global CO2 emissions by 2050 would require construction of 32 nuclear power plants a year around the world through to 2050. Toshiba recognizes this as an area where Toshiba Group can take the lead. While aware that the ultimate achievement will be strongly influenced by future market developments, Toshiba is proactively responding to current conditions by raising its original estimate of 47 million tons a year by 35 million tons to a new target of 82 million tons a year.

The company is also targeting to cut CO₂ emissions by 35.7 million tons per year at its consumer and industry product business by 2025 by promoting light-emitting diodes for lighting that consumes less energy. Toshiba Corporation’s decision also coincides with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s pledge to cut Japan’s emission of CO₂ by 60%-80% by 2050.

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Toshiba Corporation is expecting a rise in business in the third quarter of 2008

World’s top NAND flash memory producer Toshiba Corporation (TYO:6502) posted an 80% decline in its operating profit in the first quarter of 2008 due to fall in its NAND chips prices. The company expects that prices of NAND chips used in Apple iPod will remain flat throughout the second quarter of the year but it could pick up in the third quarter. The company expects that demand of NAND chips will increase among laptop PC makers as they are using NAND memory instead of hard disk drives, and sophisticated mobile phone producers.

On 22^nd May, at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, Shozo Saito, Toshiba corporate senior vice president, said that demand for Toshiba’s high-capacity flash memory chips has been strong. The company has been receiving orders 5% more than it could supply and it would increase upto 10% in the third quarter. He said that his company is prepared for a 50% slump in business because the past data shows 50% average decline per year. In the face of further price falls, the company will curb plans to increase output. Saito said that his company will keep profit margins by cutting costs. Reuters reports:

He said it was possible that the company would initially start production at only one of two NAND factories it is planning to build in 2010.

Toshiba and partner SanDisk Corp (SNDK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) together plan to spend a total 1.7 trillion yen ($16.5 billion) on two new plants in Japan, but SanDisk has so far only committed to investing in one of them.

"It depends on the market situation. If NAND prices fall too much, we will leave factory buildings empty," he said.

"We could start production at one plant first, and if so, we think that would be the one in Yokkaichi," in western Japan, he said.

For a long time, Toshiba Corporation has been trying to avoid sharp price fluctuations by shifting more towards “embedded” NAND memory used in portable music players and other digital devices. Saito said that his company will increase the percentage of the embedded NAND production upto 70% of its total production in one year.

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Japan's nuclear-power-plant builders will receive aid from

Japan’s nuclear-power-plant-builders that are working on U.S projects are going to receive financial aid from Japan Bank for International Cooperation under the request of Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy unit of the trade ministry. Bloomberg reports:

In a move to reduce investment risks of companies that participate in U.S. nuclear-plant projects, the agency might ask the Japan Bank for International Cooperation to make loans to companies such as Toshiba Corp., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd., the news service reported.

U.S. and Japanese energy officials are scheduled to meet May 23 in Tokyo to discuss Japan's policy on aid to the U.S., which plans to build 30 nuclear reactors over the next 20 years, Nikkei said.

Japanese companies are now moving into US nuclear market. Japanese company Toshiba Corporation (TYO:6502) bought Westinghouse Electric Co., a Pennsylvania-based nuclear-power-system. Hitachi Ltd. (TYO:6501) with General Electric Co. is exploring the U.S. market.

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