The Japanese company sold the rest of its shares to Sharp, which had already acquired a large part of Toshiba Client Solutions in 2018.
The sale of the remaining 19.9% of shares therefore formalizes Toshiba’s exit from the laptop PC market.. And if the Japanese company was not as active in this sector in recent years, it still marks the end of an era.
In the 80s and 90s, Toshiba dominated the market, especially with its line of Satellite notebooks.. 35 years later, only the Dynabook range, thus renamed by Sharp, remains as a trace of Toshiba’s past and its advances in the field.
Toshiba’s first laptop, the T1100, sold for $ 2,000. It was in 1985, and the machine offered a rechargeable battery, 256 KB of memory and a 3.5 floppy disk drive.
But the 2000s were complicated for Toshiba. Its market share in the laptop PC sector has steadily declined, dropping from 17.7 million machines sold in 2011 to 1.4 million in 2017.
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