History of Hitachi, Ltd.

• Completed 300 MW high-voltage direct current transmission between Hokkaido and Honshu
• Completed nuclear fusion equipment

• Developed magnetic recording video camera
• Established color picture tube dry process technology

• Hitachi Europe Ltd. established
• Succeeded in world's first micro-level observation of magnetic field by the use of electron beam holography
• Hitachi's first supercomputer announced
• Listed on New York Stock Exchange
• Hitachi Australia Ltd. established

• Manufactured 1-megabit high-speed CMOS mask ROM
• Developed air conditioners with scroll compressors

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• Completed Japan's first model of improved standard-type boiling water reactor
• Started mass production of 256-kilobit DRAMs *7

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• Completed the "JT-60" large-scale Tokamak device for break-even plasma experiments
• Established the Hitachi Foundation to promote cultual, educational and scientific exchanges between Japanese and the U.S.
• Developed CAD/CAE systems with high-definition color displays
• The Hitachi Foundation was established to promote cultural, educational and scientific exchanges between Japan and the U.S.
• Released the first large-scale computer with fully applied LSI *8

• Completed scanning electron microscope that can record electron spin

• Put fuzzy control to a practical use
• Completed rear-projection large liquid crystal color display

• Developed basic technology of neural network
• Developed 4-legged robot
• Design Center upgrade brings corporate laboratory count to nine
• Hitachi Asia Pte. Ltd. established

• Developed world's fastest superconductive computer
• Developed superconductive MR imaging equipment
• Established two R&D centers in the U.S. and two laboratories in Europe