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Dec 26, 2002

• Hitachi Announces Board Change
• Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric Sign Joint Venture Agreement for Establishing Renesas Technology

Dec 25, 2002

• Hitachi and Nippon Sanso Reached Agreement on Transfer of Hitachi's Air Separation Plants Business

Dec 19, 2002

• Hitachi Begins to Provide SH7300 Platform SDK as Total Solution of Application Software Development for Next Generation Mobile Phone Systems Incorporating SH-Mobile

Dec 12, 2002

• Hitachi Releases 16-Bit Single-Chip Microcontroller with High-Speed Synchronous Serial Communication Interface and the CAN Interface for In-Vehicle LAN Standard

Dec 9, 2002

• Hitachi Releases High-Efficiency HAT2180RP Composite Power MOSFET for Non-Isolated DC/DC Converter Use in Products such as Notebook PCs

Dec 4, 2002

• “Three-Layer Stacked HJ931 Series” System in Package (SiP) with SuperH^TM Microprocessor

Dec 2, 2002

• U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves Hitachi-IBM Hard Disk Drive Venture

Nov 25, 2002

• Hitachi Releases HSU285 Wave-Detection Schottky Barrier Diode for 5.8 GHz Band Use

Nov 21, 2002

• Hitachi Releases "Reduced Size MultiMediaCard", the World's Smallest Flash Card

Nov 11, 2002

• Restructuring of Hitachi's Consumer Products' Domestic Sales System

Nov 7, 2002

• Hitachi won a contract from Changchun Railway Vehicles for Chongqing Monorail

Nov 5, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Smart Card Microcontrollers with Built-in MasterCard M/Chip^TM Application for MasterCard® Smart Cards

Oct 31, 2002

• Financial Results for the Half Year Ended September 30, 2002
• Hitachi to Pursue Further Structural Reforms

Oct 29, 2002

• LG CNS and HITACHI Agreed to Jointly Develop a Information System for University

Oct 21, 2002

• Hitachi Releases SH7760 SuperH^TM Microprocessor for In-Vehicle Information Products Supporting Telematics, Integrating SH-4 CPU Core and Variety of Interfaces in a Single Chip

Oct 10, 2002

• Hitachi Releases HD66768 Single-Chip LSI for Passive Color Liquid Crystal Display System for European Market and Back-Side Color Liquid Crystal Displays in Mobile Phone Field

Oct 7, 2002

• Hitachi Releases H8S/2282F CAN-Supporting High-Performance 16-Bit Microcomputer Providing Compact Single-Chip Implementation of an Automobile Dashboard System

Oct 3, 2002

• Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric to Establish Renesas Technology Corp., A New Company for Semiconductor Operations

Oct 1, 2002

• Restructuring of GE/Hitachi Lighting Products Sales Business

Sep 30, 2002

• Hitachi Releases SH7300 High-Performance Processor for Next-Generation Mobile Phones with Videophones Capability as Third Product in SuperHTM Mobile Application Processors 'SH-Mobile Series'

Sep 26, 2002

• Hitachi Releases HD66778 492/360-Output, 64-Grayscale TFT Driver with On-Chip Timing Control Circuit for HVGA and QVGA Definition TFT Liquid Crystal Panels for Use in PDAs

Sep 25, 2002

• Hitachi Home & Life Solutions Begins Discussion to Acquire Major Stake in Joint Venture Amtrex Hitachi Appliances

Sep 24, 2002

• Hitachi's Revolutionary "A-train" to be exhibited for First Time in Europe at InnoTrans 2002
• Hitachi Releases SH7058F SuperH^TM Microcontroller Featuring Industry's Fastest Operating Frequency of 80 MHz and 1-Mbyte Large-Capacity On-Chip Flash Memory In The In-Vehicle Control Equipment Field

Sep 17, 2002

• Hitachi Receives Order for 96 Tsukuba Express Cars

Sep 11, 2002

• Hitachi Announces Revision of Business Forecast for the First Half of Fiscal 2002 and Interim Dividend

Sep 5, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Low-Pin-Count, Small-Package and On-Chip Flash Memory 16-Bit Single-Chip Microcontrollers Supporting the CAN In-Vehicle LAN Standard

Sep 4, 2002

• Executive Vice President of Hitachi, Ltd. to Serve Concurrently as President of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation

Aug 23, 2002

• Hitachi Transportation Systems participates in InnoTrans 2002 (Sept 24 - 27)

Aug 6, 2002

• Hitachi's MultiMediaCard^TM Products Are First in the Industry to Pass the MultiMediaCard Association's Compliance Tests for System Specification Version 3.1

Jul 30, 2002

• Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended June 30, 2002

Jul 25, 2002

• Hitachi, Ingentix, Matsushita, Sandisk and Toshiba Develop New Mobile Commerce Security Standard for Flash Memory Cards
• UFJ Bank and Hitachi Sign Basic Agreement for IT Outsourcing
• Hitachi Releases HD66776/HD667P10 LSI chipset for Low-Temperature Polysilicon TFT Color Liquid Crystal Display System using for Mobile Phones

Jul 24, 2002

• Corporate Name and Management Announced for New Telecommunications Company
• Hitachi to Integrate Two Telecommunications-Affiliated Companies, Advance Restructuring of Communications Equipment Business
• Hitachi to Integrate its Semiconductor Manufacturing Companies

Jul 22, 2002

• Hitachi Releases SH7705 Ultra-Low-Power 32-Bit SuperH^TM RISC Microprocessor
• ITOCHU Corporation and Hitachi, Ltd. receive order for gas turbines.

Jul 17, 2002

• Hitachi to Release “FLORA 270W Silent Models,” the World's First Products of notebook PC with a Silent Water-cooling System

Jul 15, 2002

• NPF LA-1 Interface Specification Compatible with QDR SRAM

Jul 10, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Industry’s Fastest 1-Gbit Multi Level Cell Flash Memory

Jun 27, 2002

• Hitachi Releases HD66773 Single-Chip LSI as TFT Color Liquid Crystal Display System for Mobile Phones

Jun 26, 2002

• Hitachi Offers New Entry UNIX Servers Based on Strategic Partnership with IBM

Jun 25, 2002

• Hitachi Releases SH7294 for Next-Generation Mobile Phones with Built-In Camera as Second-Phase Product in SuperH^TM Mobile Application Processors ‘SH-Mobile Series’
• Hitachi Appoints Atsuyoshi Koike President & CEO of Its 300mm Wafer Fabrication Company, Trecenti Technologies

Jun 21, 2002

• Hitachi Wins Contract to Develop “Sentosa Express” for Sentosa Development Corporation

Jun 18, 2002

• Hitachi to split off Display Business

Jun 12, 2002

• Hitachi Plans Transfer of Its Semiconductor and Integrated Circuits Group’s (SIC) Opto-Device Division to OpNext, Inc.

Jun 11, 2002

• Hitachi Licenses Matsushita’s SD Memory Card Host Interface IP

Jun 10, 2002

• Hitachi Releases High-Performance N-Channel Power MOSFET Series Enabling DC/DC Converter To Be Made Higher Efficiency And Smaller Size

Jun 5, 2002

• Proposal to the General Meeting of Shareholders for the authorization of the acquisition by Hitachi of its own shares
• Hitachi Introduces Sony’s Contactless Smart Card Technology “FeliCa”

Jun 4, 2002

• Hitachi and IBM Reach Definitive Agreement on Hard Disk Drive Operations

Jun 3, 2002

• Hitachi Introduces Copyright Protection Technology MagicGate^TM of Memory Stick^TM

May 29, 2002

• Hitachi, Ltd. Acquires AccSys Technology, Inc to Expand Proton Beam Therapy Systems Business

May 28, 2002

• Hitachi, Ltd. and UNISIA JECS Corporation Sign Share Exchange Agreement

May 27, 2002

• Matsushita and Hitachi Agree To Partnerships in Environmental Management Tool

May 23, 2002

• Hitachi, Ltd., Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. and Meidensha Corporation Transfer Substation Systems Businesses to Japan AE Power Systems Corporation by the Separation of Related Units.
• Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd. Sign Share Exchange Agreement
• Hitachi to Absorb Part of Hitachi ULSI Systems

May 14, 2002

• Hitachi Comments on ITC Investigation
• International Security Certification for Hitachi Smart Card Microcontroller

Apr 26, 2002

• Financial Results for the Year Ended March 31, 2002
• Hitachi Announces Board and Executive-Level Changes in Management

Apr 24, 2002

• Hitachi Reorganizating Operations to Strengthen Hitachi Group's Telecommunication Equipment Business
• Start Business Operations of Hitachi Information Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Apr 23, 2002

• Hitachi Koki’s Printer Business to be Split off and Become Subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.

Apr 22, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Smart Card Microcontroller “AE45X series” Equipped with Contact/Contactless Dual Interface in a Single Chip

Apr 19, 2002

• Hitachi and Imagination Technologies Sign Multi-Core Licensing Agreement

Apr 18, 2002

• Hitachi filed a patent infringement lawsuit against EMC Corp.
• Hitachi, Ltd. to Make UNISIA JECS CORPORATION a Wholly Owned Subsidiary

Apr 17, 2002

• Hitachi and IBM Agree to Strategic Storage Alliance
• Hitachi Comments on EMC Allegations

Apr 16, 2002

• Hitachi and Anoto have agreed to co-develop Digital Pen Based services for the enterprise market starting with e-Government and e-Local Government solutions in Japan

Apr 15, 2002

• Hitachi Releases SuperH Mobile Application Processor ‘SH-Mobile’ for optimum processing of multimedia applications for next-generation mobile phone

Apr 12, 2002

• Development of Laser Beam Recorder for Next-generation Optical Disc
• Hitachi empowers new Taiwan Healthcare IC Card with JavaCard^TM smart card controller

Apr 11, 2002

• Hitachi Releases 9/18-Mbit Zero Bus Latency (ZBL) SRAMs for Communications Applications, Achieving Industry's Top-Level Operating Speed of 250 MHz

Apr 2, 2002

• Hitachi Announced Flash Memory with Built-in Memory Control Function, "superAND Type Flash Memory" For the First Time In the Industry

Mar 28, 2002

• Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd. to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and to issue new shares to Hitachi, Ltd.

Mar 25, 2002

• Hitachi Receives 2002 U. S. EPA Climate Protection Award For PFC Abatement System

Mar 20, 2002

• JEDEC Approves QDRII Family of High-Speed SRAM Products
• Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi Announce Small-scale Elevator and Hydraulic Elevator R&D and Manufacturing Tie-up

Mar 18, 2002

• IPC and Hitachi Agree to transfer Hitachi's Overseas Dealerboard Business to IPC
• Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric to Integrate System LSI Businesses

Mar 14, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Industry's First ATA-5 Compliant Flash Card with Ultra DMA Transfer Mode Offering Industry's Fastest Flash Card Speed

Mar 4, 2002

• Hitachi Releases 10 Gbps optical receiver module HR1161PDS, the industry's smallest and low-voltage operation module

Feb 28, 2002

• Hitachi Announces Revision of Business Forecast for the Fiscal 2001 and Year-End Dividend (PDF 95kbyte)
• Hitachi Announces Plans for Completion of Emergency Management Measures and Initiatives to Enhance Its Competitiveness (PDF 63kbyte)
• Hitachi to Reconstruct its Display Business (PDF 76kbyte)
• Reorganizating Operations to Enhance Capabilities as a Total Solutions Provider in the Ubiquitous Information Society

Feb 26, 2002

• Hitachi Creates New Structure For European Operations

Feb 25, 2002

• Hitachi Releases PIN Secure MultiMediaCard as Industry’s First Flash Card with User Authentication Function

Feb 21, 2002

• Hitachi Releases 384-Output and 256-Grayscale TFT Driver Incorporating low EMI RSDS^TM-Compliant Interfaces for Wide View TFT LCD Panels

Feb 20, 2002

• Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Share Basic Nuclear Technologies

Feb 19, 2002

• NTT, Hitachi, and Matsushita begin Joint Research Targeting Next-generation E-commerce using Optic Networks
• Hitachi to Launch New Broadband Mobile Multimedia Communicator NPD-10JWL in Japan Market
• Large Capacity Optical Disc Video Recording Format “Blu-ray Disc” Established
• Hitachi and UMC End Trecenti Joint Venture Agreement

Feb 18, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Industry's Smallest High-Picture-Quality CMOS Sensor Camera Module for Portable Devices

Feb 15, 2002

• Hitachi Releases Industry's Fastest 16-Mbit Low-Power SRAMs

Feb 5, 2002

• Consortium Establishes DME Development Co.
• World’s first 100-mV operation for CMOS integrated circuits

Jan 8, 2002

• Hitachi Starts Business for Windows CE .NET Mobile Devices