Hoping to leverage its success in the portables market, Toshiba America Inc’s computer systems division will launch a line
of consumer PCs on Tuesday – its first foray into that market outside Japan. Toshiba’s PCs, called Infinia, will have 166MHz
and 200MHz Intel Pentium processors and include multimedia features such as a built-in TV tuners and radios with remote
control and CD-ROM drives. Peripherals such as digital video disk drives will follow. Contrary to US reports stating that Intel
Corp is building the machines for it in the US, Toshiba says its OEM agreement with Intel only applies to its PCs in Japan.
Toshiba would not reveal which company is building its PCs in the US, but emphasized that it has staff on-site overseeing
manufacturing. Toshiba will unveil corporate desktops by the end of 1997 and is aiming to be among the top three desktop
vendors in the US by the year 2000 (CI No 2,987).
