Background Sony Corporation is one of the best-known names in consumer electronics andranks second worldwide in electronics behind Matsushita Electric Corporation. Since itwas established shortly after World War II, Sony has introduced a stream of revolutionary products, including the transistor radio, the Trinitron television, theBetamax VCR, the CD player, the Walkman portable cassette player, and thePlayStation game console. The company’s electronics segment–which includes audioand video products, televisions, personal computers, monitors, computer peripherals,telecommunications devices, and electronic components (such as semiconductors). When Dr. Toshi T. Doi took charge of the project to develop a new computer in 1984, herecruited 11 top-flight engineers to form the team. Doi established three basicguidelines […]