Fujitsu
Fujitsu Limited (富士通株式会社, Fujitsū Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo.[2] It is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the largest in Japan, in 2021.[3]
For the place, see Fujitsu District, Saga. For the song, see Fu-ji-tsu.
The hardware offerings from Fujitsu are mainly of personal and enterprise computing products, including x86, SPARC and mainframe compatible server products, although the corporation and its subsidiaries also offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of data storage, telecommunications, advanced microelectronics, and air conditioning. It has approximately 124,000 employees supporting customers from over 50 countries and regions.[1]
Fujitsu is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange; its Tokyo listing is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX 100 indices.
History[edit]
1935 to 2000[edit]
Fujitsu was established on June 20, 1935, which makes it one of the oldest operating IT companies after IBM and before Hewlett-Packard,[4] under the name Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing (富士電気通信機器製造, Fuji Denki Tsūshin Kiki Seizō), as a spin-off of the Fuji Electric Company, itself a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and the German conglomerate Siemens which had been founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan after the Second World War mostly unscathed.
In 1954, Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100 mainframe,[5][6] and in 1961 launched its second generation computers (transistorized) the FACOM 222 mainframe.[7] The 1968 FACOM230 "5" Series marked the beginning of its third generation computers.[8] Fujitsu offered mainframe computers from 1955 until at least 2002[9] Fujitsu's computer products have also included minicomputers,[10] small business computers,[11] servers[12] and personal computers (FM-8, FM-7, FM-Towns, etc).[13]
Advertising[edit]
The old slogan "The possibilities are infinite" can be found below the company's logo on major advertisements and ties in with the small logo above the letters J and I of the word Fujitsu. This smaller logo represents the symbol for infinity. As of April 2010, Fujitsu is in the process of rolling out a new slogan focused on entering into partnerships with its customers and retiring the "possibilities are infinite" tagline. The new slogan is "shaping tomorrow with you".[79]
Environmental record[edit]
Fujitsu reports that all its notebook and tablet PCs released globally comply with the latest Energy Star standard.[84]
Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of April 2013 "examines how IT companies use their considerable influence to change government policies that will drive clean energy deployment" and ranks Fujitsu 4th out of 21 leading manufacturers, on the strength of "developed case study data of its solutions with fairly transparent methodology, and is the leading company in terms of establishing ambitious and detailed goals for future carbon savings from its IT solutions."[85]