Fujitsu: a brief history

Fujitsu’s history shows parallels to its former joint venture partner, the Siemens Group, and both companies have travelled a long road together. Fujitsu’s started in 1935 with the foundation of Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō, a joint venture between an offshoot of the communications division of the Fuji Electric Company and Siemens. The purpose of the new company was the production of telecommunications accessories. From 1945, the company also produced tele-phones and the first computers as early as in 1952. 1952 also marked the year in which the company resumed its collaboration with Siemens, which had ceased in 1945. In 1960, Fujitsu started producing the first transistors and six years later the first integrated circuits followed. In 1967, Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō was formally renamed into Fujitsu Limited. Seven years later, in 1974, Fujitsu announced the first development of IBM-compatible mainframes based on LSI and multi-layered printed circuit boards. A machine developed jointly by Amdahl and Fujitsu in 1975 prevailed against an IBM product for a NASA project. This was a major success.

In 1999, this long lasting partnership culminated in the foundation of another joint venture: Fujitsu Siemens Computers. When Fujitsu announced it would take over 100 percent of Fujitsu Siemens Computers as of April 2009, the company had already made major steps towards global IT leadership.

The Fujitsu business

In the IT sector, Fujitsu leverages its base of cutting-edge, high-performance technologies to offer total solutions encompassing high-quality products, electronic devices and a host of related services. In addition, the company strives to always take a customer-centric approach in all business activities and become customers' valued and trusted partners.

With the three major business segments of Technology Solutions, Ubiquitous Product Solutions and Device Solutions, Fujitsu already is driving growth and is on its way to becoming a leader in the IT business on a regional as well as on a global level.

Technology Solutions

Fujitsu provides corporate customers around the globe with IT-driven business solutions based on their advanced technology and high-quality system platforms and services. These technology solutions contribute more than 50 percent to Fujitsu’s total revenues, and include:

• Advanced network equipment to support their IT infrastructure and advanced network systems, centreed on high-performance, high-reliability servers fundamental to customers' critical systems
• A full range of services for customers' IT lifecycle, from consulting to system integration, operation and maintenance, targeting customers in the financial, public, manufacturing, distribution, medical and other varied fields worldwide
• A full range of servers such as Mainframe, UNIX, mission-critical IA, PC
• Storage systems