SANYO Semiconductor Co.,Ltd.

Company Profile

We draw on these strengths as a total solution provider for audio, video and power applications.

• Company Name: SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Location: 1-1, Sakata 1-chome, Oizumi-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma 370-0596 Japan
• Date of Foundation: July 3, 2006
• Officers: PresidentTeruo Tabata
Executive Vice PresidentKazuhiro Yoshida
DirectorMamoru Ando
DirectorYasuo Kondo
DirectorTetsuya Kubota
DirectorEiju Maehara
DirectorIchiro Shimada
DirectorKenichi Murawaki
Corporate Executive AuditorMichihiro Shigeta
Corporate Auditor (Outside)Takashi Okuma
Corporate Auditor (Outside)Masaaki Yaguchi
• Sales: 1,171 billion yen (amount of semiconductor sales at SANYO Electric in 2008)
• Number of Employees: 1,900 (number of employees in the semiconductor group: 10,000 as of May 2009)
• Affiliates: 8 Manufacturing Companies, 8 Sales Companies

As of April 1, 2009

February, 1958	Start of AM radio transistor production in Osaka
July, 1959	Establishment of Tokyo SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (Gunma Prefecture)
June, 1960	Transfer of transistor production to Tokyo SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
November, 1965	Start of BIP LSI production
June, 1967	Start of thick film IC production
March, 1971	Start of MOS LSI production
December, 1972	Establishment of Korea Tokyo Silicon Co., Ltd., our first overseas assembly company
June, 1974	Establishment of SANYO Semiconductor (H.K.) Co., Ltd., our first overseas sales company
June, 1984	Establishment of Niigata SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (Ojiya City, Niigata Prefecture), a wafer-process company
December, 1986	Merger of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. and Tokyo SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
April, 1999	ISO14001 acquired by all sites in the semiconductor group
April, 2002	Merger of four affiliated assembly companies to establish Kanto SANYO Semiconductors Co., Ltd.
June, 2003	ISO9001 acquired as SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Semiconductor Company
August, 2005	Merger of three semiconductor wafer-process departments to establish SANYO Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
April, 2006	ISO/TS16949 acquired as SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Semiconductor Company
July, 2006	Semiconductor department separated from SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. to establish SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

FY2008 data