Toshiba Corporation and Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation (Kaga Toshiba) today marked the official opening of a new semiconductor production fab based on 200mm wafers at Kaga Toshiba, a consolidated subsidiary of Toshiba based in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. The new fab will enhance production capacity for power devices.

Toshiba Corporation expects to reach new heights in the fast growing Russian market with an advertising campaign that will feature Yelena Isinbayeva, one of the world's most famous athletes. In a series of ads that will run from October onwards, Ms. Isinbayeva, the world record holder in the pole vault, will promote Toshiba's entire Russian product line-up, starting with PCs and smartphones.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) for the Ku-band (12GHz to 18GHz) frequency range that achieves an output power of 65.4W at 14.5GHz, the highest level of performance yet reported at this frequency band.

Toshiba Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to form the Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC), an open forum aimed at the promotion of superior interactivity for a wide range of next-generation consumer devices, digital content and distribution scenarios.

Toshiba Corporation today announced development of the "SpursEngineTM", a high-performance stream processor integrating Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the Cell Broadband EngineTM (Cell/B.E.TM).

Toshiba officials said Wednesday it's selling its building in Tokyo's plush Ginza district for 161 billion yen (US$1.4 million; EUR1 million) to concentrate on its core electronics businesses.

Toshiba Corporation today announced commercialization of two advanced 1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDD): the MK1626GCB offers a storage capacity of 160GB, the industry's largest in this form factor, while the thin and light MK8022GAA has a capacity of 80GB. Both drives are designed for mobile devices, such as portable media players.

Toshiba Corporation today announced a prototype hard disk drive (HDD) that uses Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology to boost capacity to a record-breaking 120 gigabytes (GB) on a single 1.8-inch platter.

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk® Corporation today celebrated with a traditional ceremony and reception the opening of Fab 4, the latest 300mm wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations, in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Toshiba Corporation (hereafter Toshiba) announced that it has decided to sell a part of its stock holding in Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. (hereafter Toshiba Machine). The details are as follow.