Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Tokyo, Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate manufacturing company that manufactures different high tech electronic and engineering products. Semiconductor products made by Toshiba are considered to be amongst the Top 20 in the world. Toshiba is best known to its customer for its high tech products e.g., Notebooks, Plasma TV, Mobile Phones and Microwave Ovens

Toshiba was originally founded when two companies were merged together; Hakunetsusha and Tanaka Seizosho. Tanaka Seizosho was the first company of Japan that manufactured different telegraphic equipments. In 1904, the name of this company was changed into Shibaura Seisakusho. Hakunetsusha was founded in 1890 and was the first company of its kind to produce different incandescent electric lamps. Later in 1899 it was named as Tokyo Denki. Finally in 1939, these two companies were merged together and ultimately in 1984 it was officially named as Toshiba Corporation.

Toshiba evolved itself to become on of the most diverse electronic products manufactures in the world. It started diversifying itself from 1942. Following is a brief history of different products of Toshiba along with their respective manufacturing year:

• Radar in 1942
• First TAC Digital Computer in 1954
• Transistor TV in 1954
• Microwave Oven in 1954
• Video Phone (Color) in 1971
• Word Processor, capable of processing Japanese Language, in 1978
• MRI system in 1982
• Laptop in 1986
• EEPROM in 1991
• DVD players in 1995
• HD DVD 2005, which comes up with latest notebooks of Toshiba e.g., Toshiba Qosmio.

Since its foundation, Toshiba has always been offering diverse range of exciting products to its customer that includes electric and electronic products. However, to most of the customers, Toshiba has specialized in products like TV, notebooks and mobile phones. Apart from these, Toshiba offers an exiting line of different interactive products. Toshiba has divided its product line into three categories; Consumer Products, Business Products, Industrial Products. Some of the major products of the above mentioned categories are:

Consumer Products

• Laptop Computers and Accessories
• Mobile Phones
• TV
• DVD Players
• Projectors
• Network Cameras
• HD DVD
• Digital Video Recorders
• Audio Players for Mobile
• Gaming Notebooks
• Portable Electronics

Business Products

• Semiconductor components
• Professional LCD and DLP Products
• Medical Products
• Office Solutions
• Broadcasting Products

Industrial Products

• Surveillance Cameras
• Security Systems
• Automated Systems
• Ceramic Systems
• Power Systems
• LED Display Systems

Products that support Memory Card: Toshiba offers many products that come with their own internal memory as well as they support different extended memory cards by having expansion slots for them. Toshiba Mobiles, which come in different exciting shapes and features, supports different extended memory cards like miniSD card, SD card, SDHC card, MMC and MMC plus etc. With the diversity that Toshiba products are achieving, most of the different Mobile Phones manufactured by Toshiba support almost all of the extended memory cards available today.

Some common examples of such products are: