The global company "Toshiba" announced that it has completely abandoned the traditional computer industry, whether portable or desktop, and exited this market permanently, in the clearest signal the world has received so far about the shifts in the technology market that led to a significant decline in the traditional computer market after it Record a big boom for the past many years.
And users in the world are increasingly turning towards tablets or smart mobile phones, which are devices that have become a strong alternative to traditional computers, whether in the field of business and companies or in the field of entertainment, entertainment, personal and daily uses.
The technology news site Gizmodo quoted the giant Toshiba as saying that it had "transferred its remaining share in the personal computer business to Sharp," selling more than 80% of its share in the business unit, and the new owners renamed it as (Dynabook), And this name became an alternative to the new laptops produced by the unit that was owned by "Toshiba".
"Toshiba" added that "as a result of this sale, (Dynabook) has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sharp."
With these developments, the company "Toshiba" has left the laptop and personal computer market after more than three decades in this field.
Toshiba produced the first laptop in 1985, the T1100, and it is considered one of the computers that fueled the growth of the laptop industry, as it included a basic set of features that would set the standard for personal computers over the next two decades of its production.
Among the features included in the device are internal rechargeable batteries, an LCD screen and a 3.5-inch flexible disk drive, and it was compatible with IBM's personal system, which formed a milestone in the computer world for many years to come.
According to the "Gizmodo" report, which was reviewed by Al Arabiya.net, many executives in the 1980s were skeptical about the success of the idea of the laptop, as the computers in the world were huge and the laptop was just an idea, which led to him facing The project had many obstacles, including a lack of funding, as well as how to include it in the floppy disk drive, but these obstacles were eventually overcome.
It is noteworthy that the data on the computer market in the world indicates that Toshiba was at the forefront of the market during the nineties of the last century and during most of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and was often ranked among the five best computer vendors in the world, but its sales began It later retreated until it reached to abandon the laptop production unit, selling most of the division to "Sharp" in 2018 for $ 36 million.
