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Hitachi

history
2000- 2000
  • Developed 52.5 Gbits/in2 perpendicular magnetic recording method
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2001
  • Developed Notary and Certificate Authority systems for e-government
  • Developed mobile web-gateway system
  • Developed application processor for mobile phones
2002
  • Developed world’s first silent liquid-cooling notebook PC
  • Developed world’s smallest 0.3 mm square contactless IC chip
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  • Developed compact DNA analysis system genetic for SNP typing
2003
  • Developed and commercialized compact, highly accurate, high-speed finger vein authentication system
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  • Successful measurement of infant brain functions using optical topography
  • Dr. Hideaki Koizumi, a Hitachi Fellow, presented a lecture at the 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City
2004
  • Developed world’s smallest sensor-net terminal with a battery life of over one year
  • Developed high-temperature lead-free solder paste
2005
  • Explosives Trace Detection System received U.S. TSA certification
  • Exhibited "EMIEW Etwo-wheel mobile robot capable of direct dialogue at the 2005 World Exposition Aichi, Japan
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  • Established Hitachi (China) Research & Development Corporation
2006
  • Confirmation of electro-luminescence phenomena on injection of electrical current in ultra-thin silicon film
  • Basic experiment on the application of Optical Topography as a brain-machine interface
  • Mass production of 2.5-inch HDD using perpendicular magnetic recording technology