The company, to be based in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, is expected to achieve shorter time-to-market for advanced discrete products, including power transistors, diodes and opto-devices. The company will start operations in October with 140 engineers, and expects that figure to rise to 170 by 2005.

It will bring together discrete design and application engineers in a single location. Discrete device engineers from Toshiba LSI System Support Co. Ltd, a Toshiba's subsidiary currently responsible for engineering all semiconductor products, will be transferred to the new company. The activities of the new company will range from device design and development to engineering for integration in customers' systems and products.

The new company will have a divisional structure, with each division responsible for a major product area, such as telecommunications and automotive applications.

The new company will also provide application engineering support for Toshiba's sales and marketing companies in Japan and overseas, particularly in Asia, including China and South Korea, and is expected to achieve an enhanced level of total support from the design stage on.

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