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Toshiba
has been established for over 125 years and is one of the
largest companies in the world, with a turnover of over $45bn
employing 186,000.
Toshiba
has a diverse range of business fields:
- Electronic
devices
- Consumer
products
- Systems
Integration and services
- Information
and communication systems
- Power
and industrial systems
Toshiba
invest a significant amount of revenue into research and development
and is one of the largest issuers of patents in the world.
Technological advances from Toshiba include SD Memory chips,
Bluetooth and many more. Commitment to innovation manifests
itself in many ways including, for example, Toshiba's funding
of a Professorship on Future Technology at Cambridge University
in the UK and the sponsoring of the British Science Museum
until 2004.
Toshiba
is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world
and is committed to supplying TTi with silicon for banking
applications. A guaranteed silicon supply chain is a key differentiation
for TTi.
Toshiba
set up their smartcard division in 1981 and has been involved
in a number of smart card projects across a diverse range
of industries. For example in 1986 Toshiba built the ‘super
smart card‘ for the first ever Visa trials. The card
contained a chip, keyboard and LCD screen and was the size
of regular credit card.
Toshiba was also the prime contractor and system integrator for the
Smart Commerce Japan project and multi-application Javacards
for the Shibuya Visa trials. The SCJ project was the first
major implementation of SET and CHIP SET and used the Wallet
Server concept to secure credit card transactions over the
internet.
Toshiba
is also a Microsoft accredited partner for Windows for Smartcards.
TTi
has access to the wealth of products, innovation and expertise
within Toshiba to provide total smart card solutions to our
customers.
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