Artifact Details

Title

Kimbara, Kazuo oral history

Catalog Number

102740053

Type

Document

Description

[This oral history is one of seven recorded in December 2014 with former leaders in the Japanese semiconductor industry. ]

Kimbara-san was born in 1929 and graduated from Nagoya University in electrical engineering in 1951. Upon graduation, he started a long and distinguished career at Hitachi. For many years, he was involved in the design of machine controllers – as a user of semiconductors. In 1976, he became GM of Takasaki Works, which build ICs and discrete semiconductors. By 1991, he had risen to the level of Senior Executive Managing Director of Hitachi’s Electronic Device Group. Between 1995 and 1998, he managed the joint venture between Texas Instruments and Hitachi, called Twin Star Semiconductor.

Date

2014-12-16

Contributor

Dennis, Eric, Videographer
Kimbara, Kazuo, Interviewee
Myers, Stanley T., Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Tokyo, Japan

Extent

11 p.

Format

PDF

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Transcription

Subject

Hitachi; DRAM; Twin Star Semiconductor; MITI; Japanese semiconductor; semiconductor history

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Series Title

Japanese semiconductor pioneers

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X7371.2015