Speaker Profile

Mitsuo Saito , VP - Engineering,Toshiba Semiconductor Company

Mitsuo Saito received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Electronic Engineering division of the University of Tokyo in 1972 and 1974, respectively.  He then joined Toshiba Corporation's Research and Development Center.  From 1984 to 1985, he was assigned as a visiting scholar to the MIT Media Lab, where he did research into 3-D graphics and human computer interface. 

From 1986, Mr. Saito started a 3-D graphics chip development project, which later led to the chip adopted for the Sony Playstation 1.  Then, from 1997, he became Director of Toshiba’s System ULSI Engineering Lab. where he was responsible for the development of the graphics processor chip for Sony's Playstation 2. 

In July 2001, he became Chief Fellow of Toshiba’s in-house Semiconductor Company and took charge of the Broadband System LSI project, which has developed the Cell Processor and its peripheral chips.  As of 2007, Mr. Saito became Vice President of Engineering, System LSI Division, Toshiba Semiconductor Company.

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