Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc. (TIP) is a Philippine manufacturing subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, established July 7, 1995, with operations beginning October 1, 1996. Its registered address is 103 East Main Ave. Extension, Special Export Processing Zone, Laguna Technopark, Biñan, Laguna, Philippines, with an additional site at Carmelray Industrial Park in Calamba City, Laguna. It sits under Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation. Parent Toshiba was long listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (6502.T) but was delisted in December 2023 after a roughly ¥2 trillion buyout by a Japan Industrial Partners-led consortium; Toshiba is now privately held. Per a 2021 Toshiba press release, TIP reported sales of about US$2.2 billion in CY2020 and more than 11,000 local employees.
Operations. TIP is Toshiba's strategic data-storage manufacturing base, producing hard disk drives (client HDDs for PCs, gaming consoles and car navigation; enterprise HDDs for servers; nearline HDDs for data centers and surveillance) and solid state drives, plus electronic printed circuit boards (e-PCB). Its early mandate covered HDDs, CD-ROM/DVD drives and PC motherboards. Toshiba's own materials state TIP's output accounted for roughly 6.6% of total Philippine electronics exports in the first half of 2021, and the company has repeatedly received PEZA exporter recognition.
Litigation posture. TIP is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. The database shows 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case, consistent with a manufacturer defending against third-party patent claims. That single tracked matter is an ITC Section 337 action rather than a district court suit, so the Eastern District of Texas venue pattern common to NPE filings does not apply.
Notable case. Macronix International Co., Ltd. et al. v. Toshiba Corporation et al. (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1046, "Certain Non-Volatile Memory Devices and Products Containing Same"), filed March 7, 2017, named TIP alongside Toshiba Corporation, Toshiba America, Inc., Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. and Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. as respondents. Macronix asserted three U.S. patents on non-volatile memory; the ALJ found no violation in April 2018, the Commission reversed in part and issued remedial orders in October 2018, and the orders were rescinded in November 2018 following a license and settlement agreement between the parties.