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Hitachi Computer Products company history timeline

1988

VOS K, which began shipping in 1988 as the successor to VOS0/ES, placed top priority on ease of use and high speed in order to enable operation by personnel with no professional computer know-how who were working in practical business divisions.

In 1988, it formed a trend-setting venture with Texas Instruments to jointly develop a 16-megabyte dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip.

1989

The 1989 purchase of a controlling interest in National Advanced Systems (NAS), an American distributor of mainframe computers, helped shore up Hitachi's sales efforts in that important market.

1990

With the 31-bit addressing support, VOS3/ES1 extended a 16-MB virtual address space to 2 GB. In 1990, Hitachi started shipping VOS3/AS, which supported the M/ASA architecture that had a data space and a Super space capable of addressing up to 16 terabytes, beyond the 2-gigabyte address space.

In 1990, President Mita announced a reorganization that focused, in part, on transforming the conservative corporate culture that some observers blamed for Hitachi's declining earnings.

1991

Mita became chairman in 1991 as Tsutomu Kanai took the reins as president.

1991: Through an alliance with IBM, Hitachi begins reselling IBM notebook computers in Japan under the Hitachi name.

1998

Kanai in 1998 announced a restructuring involving a workforce reduction of 4,000.

2001

In another streamlining move, Hitachi announced in February 2001 that its instruments group and its semiconductor manufacturing equipment group would be merged into Nissei Sangyo Co., Ltd., a publicly traded firm controlled by Hitachi through a majority ownership.

2002

Also in 2002, Hitachi reached an agreement with IBM on a new joint hard disk drive (HDD) company, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, to operate in San Jose, Calif.

2005

Hitachi initially owned 70 percent of the company but took full control in 2005, following structured payments over the intervening three years of about $2 billion for IBM’s HDD patents and associated manufacturing facilities in San Jose.

2011

Hitachi Systems Assist, Ltd., and Net Services Inc., merged and renamed Hitachi Systems Value, Ltd. (renamed Hitachi Solutions Value, Ltd. in October 2011 )

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