Fujitsu
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| Fujitsu Limited 富士通株式会社 |
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| Type | Public (TYO: 6702) |
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| Founded | 1935 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Hiroaki Kurokawa, President |
| Industry | Computer hardware, software |
| Products | software & services, computing & communications platforms, electronic devices |
| Revenue |  ¥4,791 billion yen (year ending 31 March 2006) |
| Employees | ~158,000 (31 March 2006) |
| Slogan | The Possibilities Are Infinite |
| Website | www.fujitsu.com |
- For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga.
Fujitsu (富士通株式会社 Fujitsū Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services, and is headquartered in Tokyo.
Fujitsu employs around 158,000 people and has 500 subsidiary companies. Internationally, Fujitsu considers IBM to be its main competitior. Its historical domestic rival is NEC.
The slogan "The possibilities are infinite" can be found below the company's logo on major advertising and ties up with the small logo above the letters J and I of the word Fujitsu. This smaller logo, similar to a sideways figure of eight represents the symbol for infinity.
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[edit] History
The company was established in 1935 under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō (富士通信機製造, Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing), a spinoff of the Fuji Electric Company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and German conglomerate Siemens founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.
In 1954 Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 the transistorized FACOM 222. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū (富士通).
In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ, Kawasaki Furontāre) as a Fujitsu soccer club. Kawasaki Frontale has now been a J. League football club since 1999.
After 1981 Fujitsu gradually took over International Computers Ltd (ICL), which was renamed to Fujitsu Transaction Solutions in 1992.[1][2] This division provides Point of Sale computing products to retailers and service of equipment.
From February 1989 until the Summer of 1997 Fujitsu built the FM Towns PC variant. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a gaming console compatible with the FM Towns games.
Amdahl became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu in 1997.
The active partnership with Siemens AG was revived in 1999 in the form of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, now Europe's largest IT supplier, and owned 50/50 by Fujitsu and Siemens.
On March 2, 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products of America lost a class action lawsuit over hard disk drives with defective chips and firmware.
[edit] Product Lines
Computing Products Division[3]
- LifeBook notebook computers.
- Tablet personal computers, pen based computers. With rotating screen and plastic pen.
- Scanners - for various purposes of copying print in to digital files.
- Ethernet switches
- KVM switches
- Servers PRIMEPOWER, PRIMEQUEST, PRIMERGY high end UNIX, Linux Windows products.
- ETERNUS storage for enterprise environments.
- Hard drives for notebook computers, work stations and enterprise servers.
- Mag EraSURE degaussers for disposal of magnetic computing media.
Plasma displays In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color display. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.
[edit] Trivia
In the movie Back to the Future Part II the writers thought by 2015 most companies would be owned by Japan. Marty's employer is Fujitsu in 2015, he is fired by company owner Ito Fujitsu. When the film was shown in Japan, audiences did not understand the joke, since Fujitsu is not a person's name, it is only a company name similar to the American company General Electric and being fired by Mr. General Electric.[4]
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[edit] See also
- Kawasaki Frontale
- FM Towns
- List of Fujitsu products
- Fujitsu Ten
- List of Computer System Manufacturers
[edit] External links
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