Remember Toshiba was going to have SED in production this year. Now Canon has bought out all Toshiba's share and Canon is having second thoughts of even starting contruction on the 180 billion yen plant for SED production.
Toshiba's CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has been known for the sales pitch ever since he was sent to Toshiba America Information Systems years ago to try and restore the Notebook division after losing out to Compaq's price war. Ony thing that really saved him on that was Toshiba bringing out the T-3400 at the right time.
Nishida has always been pushing growth since he was appointed CE of Toshiba. The Yokkaichi semiconductor plant to fab NAND flash chips was due to him and now Samsung and Hynix have grabbed market share.
Analyst John Yang of Standard & Poor's says "Toshiba has spread itself too thin to succeed at everything. "It has to make a crucial decision: Is it a chip company or not? It's trying to be a chipmaker and at the same time spend on TVs, PCs, CT scanners, and elevators. If Toshiba wants to survive or remain a major player a decade from now, it has to make a decision."
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ed w @ Apr 15th 2007 11:20PM
That is Atsutoshi Nishida talking future again.
Remember Toshiba was going to have SED in production this year. Now Canon has bought out all Toshiba's share and Canon is having second thoughts of even starting contruction on the 180 billion yen plant for SED production.
Toshiba's CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has been known for the sales pitch ever since he was sent to Toshiba America Information Systems years ago to try and restore the Notebook division after losing out to Compaq's price war. Ony thing that really saved him on that was Toshiba bringing out the T-3400 at the right time.
Nishida has always been pushing growth since he was appointed CE of Toshiba. The Yokkaichi semiconductor plant to fab NAND flash chips was due to him and now Samsung and Hynix have grabbed market share.
Analyst John Yang of Standard & Poor's says "Toshiba has spread itself too thin to succeed at everything. "It has to make a crucial decision: Is it a chip company or not? It's trying to be a chipmaker and at the same time spend on TVs, PCs, CT scanners, and elevators. If Toshiba wants to survive or remain a major player a decade from now, it has to make a decision."