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corporation headquartered in

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, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo Group of companies before DKB and Fuji Bank (the core Fuyo Group company) merged into the

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. As of 2020, Hitachi conducts business ranging from IT, including AI, the

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, and big data, to infrastructure. Hitachi is listed on the

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and

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and its Tokyo listing is a constituent of the

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and TOPIX Core30 indices. It is ranked 38th in the 2012

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and 129th in the 2012

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History

Hitachi was founded in 1910 by electrical engineer

Namihei Odaira was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi. Life Odaira was born on January 15, 1874, in Ienaka, Shimotsuga, Tochigi Prefecture (present-day Tsugamachi Kassenba, Tochigi), the second son of Odaira Sōhachi and Chiyo. ...

(1874–1951) in

Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefectur ...

. The company's first product was Japan's first

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, initially developed for use in

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. The company began as an in-house venture of Fusanosuke Kuhara's mining company in

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. Odaira moved headquarters to

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in 1918. Odaira coined the company's

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name by superimposing two ''

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...

'' characters: ''hi'' meaning "sun" and ''tachi'' meaning "rise".

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had a significant impact on the company with many of its factories being destroyed by Allied bombing raids, and discord after the war. Founder Odaira was removed from the company and Hitachi Zosen Corporation was spun out. Hitachi's reconstruction efforts after the war were hindered by a labor strike in 1950. Meanwhile, Hitachi went public in 1949. Hitachi America, Ltd. was established in 1959. The Soviet Union started to produce air conditioners in 1975. The Baku factory was established under the license of Japanese company Hitachi. Volumes of production of air conditioners in the USSR were small, about 500,000 per year. However air conditioners were a matter of great pride. Mainly window air conditioners were produced. Most of the output was exported. Hitachi Europe, Ltd. was established in 1982. From 2006 to 2010, Hitachi lost US$12.5 billion, the largest corporate loss in Japanese history. This prompted Hitachi to restructure and sell a number of divisions and businesses, a process that is expected to end in 2021. In March 2011, Hitachi agreed to sell its

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subsidiary, HGST, to

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for a combination of cash and shares worth US$4.3 billion. Due to concerns of a duopoly of WD and Seagate Technology by the EU Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, Hitachi's 3.5" HDD division was sold to

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. The transaction was completed in March 2012. In January 2012, Hitachi announced it would stop producing televisions in Japan. In September 2012, Hitachi announced that it had invented a long-term data solution out of

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that was capable of preserving information for millions of years. In October 2012, Hitachi agreed to acquire the United Kingdom-based nuclear energy company

Horizon Nuclear Power Horizon Nuclear Power is a British energy company that was expected to build new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009, with its head office in Gloucester, and is now owned by Hitachi. On 17 January 2019, Horiz ...

, which plans to construct up to six nuclear power plants in the UK, from E.ON and RWE for £700 million. In November 2012, Hitachi and

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agreed to merge their thermal power generation businesses into a joint venture to be owned 65% by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and 35% by Hitachi. The joint venture named Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) began operations in February 2014. In October 2015, Hitachi completed a deal with

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to form a joint-venture that would takeover Hitachi's HVAC business. Hitachi maintained a 40% stake of the resulting company, Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning. In May 2016, Hitachi announced it was investing $2.8 billion into its

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interests. Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 and the extended temporary closure of most Japanese nuclear plants, Hitachi's nuclear business became unprofitable and in 2016 Hitachi CEO Toshiaki Higashihara argued Japan should consider a merger of the various competing nuclear businesses. Hitachi is taking for 2016 an estimated ¥65 billion write-off in value of a

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technology laser

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joint venture with

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. In February 2017, Hitachi and

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announced a partnership to develop, produce and sell motors for electric vehicles. Also in 2017, private equity firm

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bought Hitachi Kokusai's (itself a subsidiary of Hitachi) semiconductor equipment division, becoming Kokusai Electric. In 2019, Applied Materials announced that it would acquire Kokusai Electric from KKR for US$2.2 billion. The deal was later terminated in 2021. In 2018, Hitachi stopped selling televisions in Japan because its market share had dropped to 1%, opting to sell Sony TVs through its existing dealer network. On March 14, 2018,

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announced its partnership with Hitachi INS Software to help develop big data analytics market in Japan. In December 2018, Hitachi Ltd. announced it would take over 80% of

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's power grid division for $6.4 billion renaming it Hitachi-ABB Power Grids in the process. In October2021, the enterprise was rebranded HitachiEnergy. From 2008 to 2018, Hitachi has reduced the number of its listed group companies and consolidated subdiaries in Japan from 22 to 4 and around 400 to 202, respectively, through restructuring and sell-offs. It plans to become a company specializing in IT and infrastructure maintenance in the near future. In 2019, Hitachi sold its medical imaging business to

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for US$1.7 billion. Showa Denko bought Hitachi Chemical from Hitachi and other shareholders, at US$42.97 per share. Until then, Hitachi Chemical had been considered to be a core unit of the group. Hitachi also suspended the ABWR development by its British subsidiary

as it did not provide an adequate "economic rationality as a private enterprise" to proceed. In October 2019, the talks between

and Hitachi to consolidate their four automotive parts businesses, Showa, Nissin and Keihin of the former and the latter's Hitachi Automotive Systems, have reportedly begun, resulting in the creation of a "mega supplier" named Hitachi Astemo incorporated in January 2021. In September 2020, Hitachi abandoned plans to create nuclear power plants in Gloucestershire and Wales due to issues with funding due to the impact of

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. In the same month, Hitachi Capital agreed to be bought by its second-largest shareholder, business partner, and former rival Mitsubishi UFJ Lease, which has invested in the Hitachi subsidiary in 2016. In November 2020, it announced that Hitachi Metals and Hitachi Construction Machinery, both being some of the last remaining listed subsidiaries, will likely be detached from the group according to the restructuring plan. In December, Hitachi sold a 60% stake in its overseas home appliance business to Turkish Arcelik for US$300 million. In December 2021, it was announced by OPG that they had selected GE-Hitachi to construct two BWRX-300 reactors at the Darlington site in Ontario, Canada. OPG and GE-Hitachi will be collaborating on the design, planning and preparation of license materials for the construction of Canada's first SMR which is planned to enter operation in 2028.

Products and services

Automotive systems

* Car Information Systems * Drive Control * Electric Powertrain Systems * Engine Management Systems

Construction machinery

* Hydraulic Excavators * Forestry Equipment * Mechanical & Hydraulic Cranes * Mining Dump Trucks * Crawler Dump trucks * Wheel Loaders

Defense systems

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s *

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Crisis management Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and envir ...

* C4I systems * Satellite image processing systems * Social Infrastructure

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business (in coordination with Hitachi's Infrastructure Systems Group) * Electric propulsion technology *

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systems (including some

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research & development) * Advanced Combat Infantry Equipment System CIES( JSDF) - Primary contractor

Digital media and consumer products

2008 Hitachi aircon outdoor unit RAM-5DNS

* Air conditioning equipment - jointly with

* Hitachi Magic Wand *

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s - jointly with optical disc drive division of LG as Hitachi-LG Data Storage * White goods ( refrigerators,

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s, etc.) - majority stake of ex-Japan business sold to Arcelik.

Electronic systems and equipment

* Test and measurement equipment * Particle therapy equipment * Cell culture equipment

Advanced materials

* Specialty steels * Wires and cables

Information and telecommunication systems

* ATMs * Servers * Disk array subsystems *

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and

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solutions ** Virtual Storage Platform *

** Hitachi Lumada * VOS3

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operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...

Software Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. ...

* Outsourcing services *

Telecommunications equipment Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) are hardware which are used for the purposes of telecommunications. Since the 1990s the boundary between telecoms equipment and IT hardware has become blurred as a ...

Power systems

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and hydrogen power generation systems *

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* GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Social infrastructure and industrial systems

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s *

Escalator An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horiz ...

s * Industrial machinery and plants * Railway vehicles and systems **

Hitachi A-train The Hitachi A-train is a family of rail rolling stock built and designed by Hitachi Rail using a common base and construction techniques. The stock is designed to facilitate a number of product life-cycle improvements including ease of manufactur ...

Others

* Logistics * Property management

Subsidiaries

Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi which provides hardware, software and services to help companies manage their digital data. Its flagship products are the Virtual Storage Platform (for enterprise storage), Hitachi Unified Storage VM for large-sized companies, Hitachi Unified Storage for small and mid-sized companies, Hitachi Content Platform (archiving and cloud architecture), Hitachi Command Suite (for storage management), Hitachi TrueCopy and Hitachi Universal Replicator (for remote replication), and the Hitachi NAS Platform. Since September 19, 2017, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has become part of Hitachi Vantara, a new company that unifies the operations of Pentaho, Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Insight Group. The company name "Hitachi Data Systems" (HDS) and its logo is no longer used in the market. Hitachi Consulting, the group's international management and technology consulting subsidiary with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, was integrated with Hitachi Vantara in 2019.

Hitachi Metals

Among other things, Hitachi Metals supplies materials for aircraft engines and fuselage components (e.g. landing gear), along with finished components for same and other aerospace applications. It also provides materials, components and tools for the automotive and electronics industries. Among the Hitachi Metals facilities is Hitachi Metal Yasugi Works or Tatara Works, one of the oldest furnaces in Japan, famously featured as a main backdrop in ''

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'', a Japanese animation film set in the

Muromachi period The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (''Muromachi bakufu'' or ''Ashikaga bakufu''), which was officially established in 1338 by ...

. As of September 2020, Hitachi Metals is set to be divested as part of the long-term restructuring plan being executed by the group.

Hitachi Rail

''Hitachi, Ltd. Railway Systems Business Unit'', known as Hitachi Rail is the

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and

railway signalling Railway signalling (), also called railroad signaling (), is a system used to control the movement of railway traffic. Trains move on fixed rails, making them uniquely susceptible to collision. This susceptibility is exacerbated by the enor ...

manufacturing division of Hitachi. Hitachi built the first railway carriage in 1924 for the domestic japanese market and soon became one of the main railway suppliers in Japan. By 1964 Hitachi was one of only three companies that built the world’s first fleet of high-speed trains, the

shinkansen The , colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. Initially, it was built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development. Beyond ...

. ''Hitachi Rail Europe'' (legally ''Hitachi Rail Limited'') was established in

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as the European headquarters of the company in 1999. Other

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are: * HITACHI RAIL ESPANA S.L., * HITACHI RAIL HONOLULU JV, * HITACHI RAIL STS, * AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, * HITACHI RAIL STS CANADA, INC., * HITACHI RAIL STS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, * HITACHI RAIL STS FRANCE SOCIETE PAR ACTIONS SIMPLIFIEE, * HITACHI RAIL STS HONG KONG LIMITED, * HITACHI RAIL STS HURONTARIO HOLDINGS INC., * HITACHI RAIL STS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, * HITACHI RAIL STS MALAYSIA SDN BHD, * HITACHI RAIL STS MOBILINX HURONTARIO GP INC., * HITACHI RAIL STS RAILWAY SIGNALING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) COMPANY LIMITED, * HITACHI RAIL STS S.P.A., * HITACHI RAIL STS SWEDEN AB, * HITACHI RAIL STS UK LTD, * HITACHI RAIL STS USA, INC., * HITACHI RAIL STS USA INTERNATIONAL CO. * HITACHI RAIL WASHINGTON LLC. The rail division delivered 120 CQ311 series railcars to

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from 1984 to 1988. Hitachi markets a general-purpose train known as the "

A-train is a series of business simulation video games developed and published by Japanese game developer Artdink in Japan. The first game in the series was published in 1985. The first release in the United States was ''Take the A-Train II'', publishe ...

", which uses

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, friction-stir-welded

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body construction. Hitachi's products have included the designing and manufacturing of many

Shinkansen The , colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. Initially, it was built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development. Beyond ...

models, including the N700 Series Shinkansen. On February 24, 2015, Hitachi agreed to purchase the Italian rolling stock manufacturer

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and acquire

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's stake in

Ansaldo STS Hitachi Rail STS SpA (from ''Hitachi Rail Signalling and Transportation Systems'') or Hitachi Rail STS (previously Ansaldo STS) is a transportation company owned by Hitachi with a global presence in the field of railway signalling and integrated t ...

, the

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division of Finmeccanica The purchase was completed later that year, at which point the company was renamed as Hitachi Rail Italy. Since then, Hitachi has obtained a majority stake in Ansaldo STS. Hitachi Monorail builds monorail systems with 10 built to date. In July 2020, Hitachi signed an exclusive agreement with Hyperdrive, a UK-based lithium-ion battery company, to bring battery-powered trains to the country. Late in 2021 Alstom announced the transfer of business relating to Bombardier Zefiro to Hitachi Rail and should be completed in early 2022. Late 2022 Hitachi Rail won the contract to supply train sets for Ontario Line being planned in

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Hitachi Astemo

Hitachi Astemo, which stands for "Advanced Sustainable Technologies for Mobility", is a 67-33 joint venture between Hitachi and

, which merged their four auto parts affiliates and division, the latter's three

keiretsu A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within the social world of Japan's business community. The ''ke ...

companies Showa Corporation, Keihin Corporation, and Nissin Kogyo, and the former's wholly owned Hitachi Automotive Systems, to be better equipped for the changing car market environment, frequently represented as CASE, for which they will integrate their assets to accelerate development of new technology and software. Hitachi Astemo is considered a "mega supplier", as annual sales of the four predecessors combined stood at $17 billion, placing it as the second largest among the compatriot auto suppliers.

Other subsidiaries

The rest of the group companies include: *Hitachi High-tech * Hitachi Construction Machinery ** Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) * GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (co-owned by

) *Hitachi Global Life Solutions - Selling home appliances except

audiovisual Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions. Audiovisual service p ...

products. *

-Hitachi Air Conditioning - A/C business majority-owned by Johnson Controls since 2015. *Hitachi Digital Media Group - Selling electronic products including

video projector A video projector is an image projector that receives a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. Video projectors use a very bright ultra-high-performance lamp (a special mercury arc lamp), ...

s under its brand name. *Hitachi Plant Technologies - Engaging in the design, development, manufacture, sale, servicing, and execution of social and industrial infrastructure machinery,

mechatronics Mechatronics engineering also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering systems, and also includes a combination of robotics, electronics, ...

, air-conditioning systems, industrial plants, and energy plant equipment in Asia and internationally. *Hitachi Communication Technologies America - Providing communications products and services for the telecommunications, cable TV, utility, enterprise, industrial and other markets. *Hitachi Solutions America - A consulting firm and systems integrator focusing primarily on

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. Hitachi Solutions America acquired Ignify, a Microsoft Dynamics Solution provider, in December 2015. *Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems - producing industrial automation systems and equipment. *Hitachi Transport System - providing one-stop logistics services. *Hitachi Energy

Discontinued or divested businesses

Hitachi Capital

Leasing A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the ''lessee'') to pay the owner (referred to as the ''lessor'') for the use of an asset. Property, buildings and vehicles are common assets that are leased. Industrial ...

* Loan guarantees * Invoice finance * Consumer finance (personal and retail) * Business finance Bought by

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, it had been the group's financial business arm.

Hitachi Works

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entities from Hitachi Works include Hitachi Cable (1956) and Hitachi Canadian Industries Limited (founded 1988 in

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and closed in 2016 as Mitsubishi-Hitachi Power Systems). As Hitachi pulled out of MHPS and handed over the control to MHI, Hitachi Works was also transferred, becoming part of Mitsubishi Power.

Others

Other former businesses Hitachi had had include the following: *Aircraft ** Hitachi T.2 **

Hitachi TR.2 The Hitachi TR.1 was a small airliner developed in Japan in 1938, produced in small numbers as the TR.2. It was a low-wing, cantilever monoplane with retractable tailwheel undercarriage and a fully enclosed cabin. The design strongly resembled ...

* Aircraft Engines ** Hitachi Hatsukaze * Hitachi Zosen ** Ships - Business merged with the shipbuilding operation of NKK corporation to form

Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (informally JMU) is a Japanese ship building marine engineering and service company headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. It's Japan’s second largest shipbuilder after Imabari Shipbuilding, with shipyard facilities in Kure, Hiroshima, Yokoha ...

* Displays ** Plasma and

LCD A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly but in ...

Television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...

s - Ceased production. Brand name continues to be licensed to Vestel for TVs sold at Argos in the UK. ** Small LCDs - Divested to be part of Japan Display **

Projector A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer type ...

s - Sold to Maxell * Memory chips - Spun off to be part of Elpida Memory *System LSIs - Spun off to be part of

Renesas Technology is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, initially incorporated in 2002 as Renesas Technology, the consolidated entity of the semiconductor units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi excluding their dynamic random-access me ...

Personal computers A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose microcomputer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or tec ...

- Ceased production * Mobile phones - Merged with

Casio is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. I ...

's cellphone manufacturing business, then absorbed into

NEC Mobile Communications NEC Mobile Communications was a mobile phone manufacturer established 1 May 2010. It started as a joint venture among three Japanese electronics manufacturers NEC, Casio and Hitachi, where NEC owned 70.74%, Casio 20.00% and Hitachi 9.26%. At o ...

* Batteries - Sold to Maxell * Drilling instruments (Hitachi Via Mechanics) - Sold to The Longreach Group * Hard disk drives - Separated division for this product line as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, then HGST was purchased by

* Mainframe computer hardware - Stopped exporting in 2000; Ceased production in 2017 to focus on the operating system business. *Hitachi Kokusai Electric - Sold to

**Telecommunication equipment **

Chemical vapor deposition Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high quality, and high-performance, solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films. In typical CVD, the wafer (subst ...

equipment *

Power tool A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools. The most common types of power tools use electric motors. Internal combustion engines and compressed ...

s (Hitachi Koki) - Sold to KKR and renamed Hikoki *

Car navigation system An automotive navigation system is part of the automobile controls or a third party add-on used to find direction in an automobile. It typically uses a satellite navigation device to get its position data which is then correlated to a position on ...

(Clarion) - Sold to Faurecia *

Wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. W ...

s - Ceased production * Chemical products (Hitachi Chemical) - Sold to Showa Denko and renamed Showa Denko Materials * Medical diagnostic equipment - Sold to

* Thermal power generation system (

Hitachi Power Systems) - Shares held by Hitachi transferred to Mitsubishi

Philanthropy

In August 2011, it was announced that Hitachi would donate an electron microscope to each of five universities in Indonesia (the

University of North Sumatra The University of Sumatera Utara ( id, Universitas Sumatera Utara) or USU is a public university located in the city of Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is situated in Padang Bulan, in the Medan Baru subdistrict of Medan, close to the City C ...

Medan Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four ma ...

, the

Indonesian Christian University Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesian ...

in Jakarta, Padjadjaran University in

Bandung Bandung ( su, ᮘᮔ᮪ᮓᮥᮀ, Bandung, ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java. It has a population of 2,452,943 within its city limits according to the official estimates as at mid 2021, making it the fourth mos ...

, General Soedirman University in

Purwokerto Purwokerto is a large but non-autonomous town on the island of Java, Indonesia. It is the capital of Banyumas Regency, Central Java province. The population of the four districts which comprise the town at the 2010 census was 233,951 and 229, ...

and

Muhammadiyah Muhammadiyah ( ar, محمدية; 'followers of Muhammad'); also known as the Muhammadiyah Society ( id, Persyarikatan Muhammadiyah) is a major Islamic non-governmental organization in Indonesia.A. Jalil HamidTackle the rising cost of living longe ...

University in Malang).

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