Taiyo Yuden

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (太陽誘電) is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology (CD-R) along with Sony and Philips in 1988. Founded 50 years ago, Taiyo Yuden currently operates factories in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. The company employs over ten thousand people worldwide and reports annual sales of more than $1 billion.

The current president of Taiyo Yuden is Yoshiro Kanzaki, who replaced Tomiji Kobayashi. Mitsugu Kawada is Honorary Chairman.

History

Taiyo Yuden was established by Hikohachi Sato on March 23, 1950 in Suginami-ku, Tokyo.

In 1989, START Lab Inc. was founded as a joint venture between Sony Corporation and Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. for the CD-R recording media business in Japan.

Products

Bluetooth modules
Capacitors
CCFL Inverters
DC/DC Converters
Ferrite Beads
High Frequency Multilayer Chip Antenna
High Frequency Multilayer Chip Filter
Isolation Transformers
Power Supplies (now redirected to Tamura Corp.)
Recording media (made by That's Fukushima for START Lab)
Resistors
Simulation Tools

Recording media

Blank CD and DVD media is made by That's Fukushima for the distributor START Lab. Media Products manufactured by Taiyo Yuden are considered to be some of the best among enthusiasts, and are also used by drive manufacturers and Sony PlayStation developers.

Taiyo Yuden's cakeboxes usually have a printed shrinkwrap foil (unlike other manufacturers using transparent shrinkwrap and printed paper cylinder). The inner rings of the CD-R products are frosted.

Taiyo Yuden branded products are not common outside of Japan (where Taiyo Yuden media has a market share of about 60%) but blank OEM CDs and DVDs are available from some online retailers. Rebranded Taiyo Yuden media can be found under Fujifilm, Fusion, Maxell, Miflop, Panasonic, Plextor, Sony, TDK and Verbatim brands ^*. In Japan, Korea and Greece, Taiyo Yuden is distributing its own brand "That's".

Taiyo Yuden made DVD media has the following media codes:
TAIYOYUDEN: 2x DVD-R, hub stamper code unknown
TYG01: 4x DVD-R, hub stamper code: GDxxxxxx
TYG02: 8x DVD-R, hub stamper code: GGxxxxxx
TYG03: 16x DVD-R, hub stamper code: GHxxxxxx (incompatibilities with burners with outdated firmware)
TYG11: 8x DVD-R DL, hub stamper code: BGxxxxxx (incompatibilities with burners with outdated firmware)
YUDEN000 T01: 4x DVD+R, hub stamper codes: TCxxxxxx or TSxxxxxx
YUDEN000 T02: 8x DVD+R, hub stamper code: TGxxxxxx
YUDEN000 T03: 16x DVD+R, hub stamper code: THxxxxxx (incompatibilities with burners with outdated firmware)

Infosmart of Hong Kong and other manufacturers from Hong Kong and Macau have been making discs which illegitimately use Taiyo Yuden's mediacodes and are prone to degradation. If those discs do not have one of these hub codes, they are most likely fakes and should not be used.

Companies

The following companies belong to the Taiyo Yuden group:

Japan

Taiyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
Chuki Seiki Co., Ltd.
Tsukiyono Denshi Co., Ltd.
Akagi Electronics Co., Ltd.
Taiyo Fukushi Co., Ltd.
START Lab Inc. (49.9% joint venture with Sony Corporation), distribution of That's brand optical media
S.E.T. Co., Ltd.
Sun Vertex Co., Ltd.
Kankyo Assist Co., Ltd., polycarbonate recycling

U.S.A.

Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc.
TRDA Inc. (Taiyo Yuden R&D Center of America)

Europe

Taiyo Yuden Europe GmbH

Korea

Korea Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
Korea Tong Yang Yujun Co., Ltd.
Korea Kyong Nam Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

China

Dongguan Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
Taiyo Yuden (Guangdong) Co., Ltd.
Taiyo Yuden (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd.
Taiyo Yuden (Tianjin) Electronics Co., Ltd.
Taiyo Yuden (Shenzhen) Electronics Trading Co., Ltd.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Taiwan

Taiwan Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Singapore

Taiyo Yuden (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Thailand

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. Bangkok Representative Office

Philippines

Taiyo Yuden (Philippines) Inc.
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. Manila Representative Office

Malaysia

Taiyo Yuden (Malaysia) SDN. BHD.
Taiyo Yuden (Sarawak) SDN. BHD.

External links

Electronics companies of Japan

Taiyo Yuden | 太陽誘電 | 太阳诱电

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