SONY Corporation is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles and information technology products. The very name “Sony” is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound.
The history of SONY Corporation dates back to the spring of 1946 when an entrepreneur Akio Morita and a promising young engineer Masaru Ibuka opened a modest radio engineering workshop in Tokyo. At that times markets were not abound in technological products; that’s why they were free to develop any direction in electronics. So, as soon as in 1951 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation have launched Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G.
The invention of transistor opened new horizons in the world of electronics. In 1957 Telecommunications Engineering Corporation came out with a transistor radio. Though being not the first to do this, it was SONY to make radios commercially successful for the first time. Their serial production was already under the brand SONY, so both the product and the brand won worldwide recognition.
By the 70-s SONY Corporation have become the world’s biggest audio and video equipment manufacturer. In I964 they produced first desk calculator. In 1968 Trinitron brand name was introduced for its line of cathode ray tube televisions and (later) computer monitors. And after 10 years under the Walkman brand the world's first portable music player was manufactured.
Closer to the 20th century SONY introduced digital cameras and camcorders. They started the digital camera revolution with the SONY Mavica electronic still camera (1981). And the first camera on the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer was Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera, launched in 1996.
The company also paid much attention to data storage media. For a period between 1983 and 1998 they stepped from SONY 3.5-inch floppy disks to Memory Stick format flash memory cards used in SONY digital cameras and music players.
SONY now is a well-known corporation with its affiliates throughout the world. It produces a wide range of goods in various categories such as HD TV sets, Sony PlayStation, Blu Ray Disc and DVD products, digital cameras, photo frames and printers, portable audio and mp3 Players, accessories and headphones, laptop computers and so much more ...
