From TVs to AI: Japan’s old electronics giants tune into digital world

Chinese and South Korean manufacturers now dominate appliances, forcing Japan's former consumer electronics champions to transform their businesses (Illustration by Hiroko Aida) Panasonic, which once dominated products for the home, now turns to data centers TOKYO — Two months before Deng Xiaoping launched China's reform and opening-up policy in December 1978, the then vice premier visited the color television factory of Matsushita Electric, today's Panasonic, on the outskirts of Osaka.

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