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Same goes for Hitachi... I thought they mainly dealt in heavy industry like Caterpillar. They seem to be more of a Samsung.
by missedthecue 6y ago
Same goes for Hitachi... I thought they mainly dealt in heavy industry like Caterpillar. They seem to be more of a Samsung.
- nolok 6y agoAs a rule of thumb Asian giants tend to deal in everything. Especially true for Japanese giants (which is weird, since for Japanese companies it's also common to find small giants that deal in one thing only and never integrate). Especially especially true for Korean giants.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoAgreed. Hitachi makes a rather famous "muscle relaxer" called the Magic Wand.
- Ftuuky 6y agoFrom magic wands to self-propelled mortars, Hitachi manufactures pretty much anything that has enough market demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi#Products_and_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi#Products_and_services
- 0_____0 6y agoI thought I'd read something about them ceasing production due to the odd brand association, but upon further research it appears that they're still making it, but without Hitachi markings, and distributing through a company called Vibratex.
- dillondoyle 6y agoCame to post this. Pun intended. But honestly it's good for both uses can confirm. Though the new Theragun style tools are a step up for sports therapy.
- 91edec 6y agoHuh... really adds deeper meaning to the motto "If you build it, they will come".
- wcfields 6y agoLove to play my Yamaha trombone on my Yamaha motorcycle
- simlevesque 6y agoIn the same vein, there's Shimano who is the biggest brand in biking tech and one of the top five company for fishing equipment.
- telesilla 6y agoWell, spinning discs put to various uses?
- fomine3 6y agoYamaha also makes routers for SMBs that has top shares in Japan. It's loved because it's very stable and they provide firmware and support info without contract.
- TomVDB 6y agoThe Magic Wand is great to relieve the pain when the RSI in my shoulder flares up!
- Tarq0n 6y agoThis is called a zaibatsu in Japan and a chaebol in South Korea. The Korean ones in particular are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing due to their interwovenness with the state.
- TMWNN 6y ago>This is called a zaibatsu in Japan and a chaebol in South Korea. The Korean ones in particular are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing due to their interwovenness with the state. The zaibatsu were similarly interwoven with the Japanese state through WW2, when the connections were cut during the US occupation. While Sony, Toyota, Mitsubishi, et al. are very large companies and have the corresponding influence any such large company would have in any developed country, there is no comparison with the dominance of Samsung, Hyundai, and LG of the Korean economy and politics.
- kazen44 6y agois there no comparison though? atleast until the last late 20th century, many european countries had companies which where basically state sponsored enterprises in certain regards. (Phillips, Volkswagen, Airbus etc).
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoNo comparison. Take Mitsubishi. I'm not sure what most people think of when they think of Mitsubishi (probably econobox cars?). However, if you look at the entire scope of the Mitsubishi Group, you get a different idea... Mitsubishi UFJ is Japan's largest bank and the world's second largest bank holding company with ~$2tn of deposits. Mitsubishi Corp is Japan's largest general trading company, and includes active business lines covering business services, consultancy, infrastructure (airports, railways), asset management and finance, energy trading, primary extraction of metals and minerals, heavy machinery, defense contracts, ships, chemical manufacturing and trading, as well as retail. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries separately manufacturers airplanes, air-to-air missiles, helicopters, aerospace turbine engines, main battle tanks, nuclear power plants, gas turbines generators, LNG carrying ships, cruise liners, space craft, wind turbines and desalination equipment. MHI's subsidiaries also include Mitsubishi Chemical (which is Japan's largest chemicals company), Nikon Corporation (cameras, optics etc), and Mitsubishi Motors. This is nothing like Philips/Airbus etc.
- keiferski 6y agoThese are called keiretsu, formerly known as zaibatsu, popularized in the West via Neuromancer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
- agumonkey 6y agoIt's funny because even as obvious as it is .. it's easy to forget. I mean a lot of people know Yamaha produces motorbikes AND pianos AND hifi devices, yet it doesn't feel like a giant. memories of my beloved Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 21" CRT
- DoingIsLearning 6y ago> Especially especially true for Korean giants. As supporting evidence... about 10 years ago I was staying at a hostel in Seoul, I went to buy a bar of soap at a convenience shop. I realized as I was getting ready to shower that the soap itself was made by LG! Probably completely banal for Koreans but to me it was equivalent to Tesla manufacturing basketball shoes, completely left field.
- shard 6y agoIn addition, you can also live in Samsung and LG apartments in Korea, while driving Samsung cars insured by Samsung insurance, getting your health care at Samsung hospitals, going to Samsung Everland amusement park, seeing art exhibits at various Samsung art museums, staying at Shilla Hotels when you travel, wear clothes from Samsung's original or partly owned brands such as FUBU and Beanpole... You get the picture.
- guitarbill 6y agoHitachi used to make chips, hard drive (HGST = Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, now owned by WD), and still makes optical drives, storage (Hitachi Data Systems, renamed a few years ago to Hitachi Vantara). Defo run into Hitachi products a few times; maybe I'm showing my age though
- missedthecue 6y agoYeah come to think of it, I've seen Hitachi hard drives as well
- rjsw 6y agoHitachi originally made their own design hard drives, I have a 100MB ESDI one, more recently they bought IBM's disk business before selling the lot to WD.
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- ChrisArchitect 6y agoI was going to reply they're into tape storage also but then realized that's Fujifilm
- pvarangot 6y agoHitachi 7200rpm and 5400rpm drives were known to be very realiable, by sometimes a factor of 2x in MTBF-like metrics.
- AaronM 6y agoI worked for a Hitachi Factory building raid storage systems in Oklahoma in a previous life.
- quickthrower2 6y agoHitachi were a popular stereo cassette and radio brand back in the day not sure if that’s still true.
- nwallin 6y agoHitachi made the SuperH ISA, a RISC instruction set that was notable for being a 16 bit fixed ISA. It had extremely high code density, and was great in environments constrained by storage. They sold the technology to ARM. If you're familiar with Thumb, that's Hitachi patents at work. The Sega 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast used SuperH CPUs. They even made a few supercomputers with SuperH CPUs, I believe the record for most digits of pi was once held by a Hitachi supercomputer. The linux kernel still support SuperH.
- fomine3 6y agoSH is now owned by Renesas. As a side note, the recently burned Renesas Naka factory is previously owned by Hitachi, located on Hitachinaka-city.