New chairman sees Sanyo's upturn
Sanyo Electric Co. will name its chairman's eldest son as its new president, replacing Yukinori Kuwano, who will step down to take responsibility for a...
Sanyo relases Xacti DMX-C5 camera
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., introduces a new "Xacti" the DMX-C5, an ultra compact digital movie camera, that can easily fit inside a shirt or pant...
Japan firms make inroads on MediaTek's turf
Japan's optical disk drive (ODD) chipset-solution providers are enjoying growing sales to Taiwan ODD makers at the expense of MediaTek, the world's largest ODD-chipset-solution vendor,...
Sanyo cuts DVD player PUH price to compete in Taiwan market
Sanyo has reduced its prices of pick-up heads (PUHs) used in DVD players from US$4.2-4.3 last quarter to US$3.8, currently, in the Taiwan market, according...
Sanyo Japan updates Xacti DSC-S4
Sanyo Japan announced that the company will soon roll out an update to its Xacti S-series of digital cameras. The Sanyo Xacti DSC-S5 is largely...
Sharp outdoes Sanyo in sales
Sharp Corp said Tuesday it boosted its group sales in April-December last year by 13.9% from a year earlier to 1,907.71 billion yen, outdoing its...
Sanyo 'to build blue laser assembly line' in 2005
Sanyo Electric will spend nearly $100 million over the next two years to mass produce blue laser diodes and optical pick-ups. Japanese company Sanyo Electric...
Sanyo and Sony expand overseas capacity for DSCs; Taiwan anticipates fewer orders
According to DigiTimes, With Sanyo Electric and Sony expanding their overseas production capacity for digital still cameras (DSCs), Taiwan DSC makers are increasingly unlikely to...
Sanyo to Unveil Prototype Cellular Phone with Built-in Digital TV Tuner
Sanyo Electric (TSE: 6764) announced that it has prototyped a CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO cellphone with a built-in digital TV tuner. The new TV phone...
New HD DVD Promotion Group to Expedite Commercialization of HD DVD Hardware and Software
Memory-Tech, NEC, SANYO and Toshiba, proponents of HD DVD, the next-generation high-definition optical disc format, today announced that they will together form the HD DVD...
