About Toshiba America Electronic Components

Transforming Reality

Toshiba electronic components are the heartbeat within market-leading designs. Working closely with design engineers to define the ever-changing need for innovation, Toshiba delivers value-added solutions with conviction, passion and artistry. Toshiba fosters lasting relationships with OEMs, ODMs, CMs, distributors, and fabless chip companies and is committed to enabling product breakthroughs with advanced, reliable electronic components and responsive technical support. With seamless design and manufacture of high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, discrete devices, displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, digital multimedia and imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components, Toshiba makes possible today’s leading cell phones, digital music players, cameras, medical devices, TVs, automotive electronics and more.

As a large IDM, approximately half of Toshiba's companywide semiconductor revenues are derived from the System LSI business. Toshiba’s revenue growth and success in the System LSI business can be contributed to its deep system-level expertise, and technology leadership backed by best-in-class 300mm wafer manufacturing and a yield-driven culture.

Future-Proof Your Innovation and Business Product Cycles

Toshiba holds a significant technological lead in delivering production-volume, high-yield 90nm and 130nm custom System-on-Chips and ASICs. We have successfully launched 65nm in volume production for our foundry customers, with development of smaller process technologies underway.

We work closely with leading companies to deliver a complete and competitive business solution that mitigates design risk and ensures high-yield custom manufacturing of custom SoCs, ASIC designs and Foundry services. An extensive patent portfolio helps to provide customers with reduced risk and low cost.

Yield-driven, high-volume manufacturing is supported by fully staffed, U.S.-based, world-class Design Centers located in San Diego, California; Marlborough, Massachusetts and Bloomington, Minnesota. These Design Centers provide a high level of local technical expertise before, during, and after the design of a custom chip.

By employing the latest electronic design automation tools for our nanometer silicon technologies from companies including Cadence, Synopsys and Magma, we help customers speed advanced IC and system designs to volume production.

Providing Innovative Silicon Solutions

Toshiba's extensive experience in microcontroller/microprocessor-based standard products and custom SoCs has resulted in the design of some of the industry's most popular chips. Toshiba worked with IBM, Sony, and Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. to develop one of the world’s highest performing processors, the “Cell Architecture” that delivered clock speeds of 4 GHz, 10x the performance of the latest PC processor at the time of its announcement in Feb. 2005.

Key Points and Milestones

  • Toshiba Corporation is Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the 3rd largest worldwide (Gartner, 2007 WW Semiconductor Revenue Estimate, April, 2008).
  • Invests extensively in the Electronic Devices business with a planned Capex investment of $14.7 billion and an R&D investment of $6.2 billion during 2008-2010.1
  • Operates 14 ASIC Design Centers companywide providing customers with true global support.
  • Operates state-of-the-art 300mm wafer manufacturing plant and started volume manufacturing in 1Q 2005.
  • Leads in the industry by producing high-performance system-level ICs in 90nm since the Spring of 2003.
  • Has delivered more than 50 90nm designs in volume production over the last two years.
  • Supports a broad range of customer applications including wireless, automotive, digital consumer, networking and computing markets.
  • Offers an extensive product portfolio supported by world-class manufacturing and a yield-driven culture.
  • Is a leading patent holder with 1,519 utility patents granted in the United States in 2007, ranking 5th overall (U.S. Patent Office).

11Taking the Initiative: Strategies for Continued Growth, 2008, Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO, Toshiba Corp. 5/08/2008, page 23, 24. (1 USD = 100 Yen - for communications purposes only)