Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL) in the United Kingdom is one of the globalised corporate-level R&D organisations founded by Toshiba Corporation, Japan and consists of two laboratories, the Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge and the Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL) in Bristol.

The company was incorporated in 1998 when the Telecommunications Research Laboratory was formed, joining the Cambridge Research Laboratory within a single organisation.

The Cambridge Research Laboratory had been established in 1991 as Toshiba's first overseas corporate-level R&D activity to undertake fundamental research in low dimensional semiconductor devices. Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS led the laboratory from its inception through July 2007, stepping down to become Senior Advisor to the company. Cambridge Research Laboratory, headed by its Managing Director Professor Roberto Cipolla, now consists of three research teams: the Quantum Information Group researching the application of Quantum Physics to Information Technologies, the Speech Technology Group established in 2002 to develop speech recognition and synthesis systems and the Computer Vision Group formed in 2006 which focuses on modelling three-dimensional shapes from images and gesture recognition.

The Telecommunications Research Laboratory is headed by its Managing Director Professor Joe McGeehan CBE FREng. The growth reflects the expansion and globalisation of Toshiba's R&D activities with the focus on Europe at the forefront of Telecommunication Research. TRL is now recognised worldwide as a centre of excellence for wireless systems and networks researching technologies for the next generation cellular, wireless local and personal area networks and reconfigurable device architectures. The laboratory currently consists of two groups: the Wireless Systems Group, researching communications technologies for high performance wireless and mobile networks, and the Reconfigurable Systems Group, which investigates the architectures, frameworks and systems to support such networks.