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Fujitsu Limited is one of the world's leading makers of computers, semiconductors, and telecommunications equipment and is considered one of Japan's sogo denki, or general electric companies, a group that is typically said to also include Hitachi, Ltd.
Historically, Fujitsu was best known as the world's number two maker of mainframe computers, behind IBM, but Fujitsu exited from that market at the turn of the millennium to focus its hardware efforts on Unix-based servers, personal computers vying with NEC for the top spot in Japan , and peripherals. The Fujitsu of the early 21st century, however, was deemphasizing its hardware roots, billing itself as an Internet-centered company, and generating increasing amounts of revenues from services and software.
The latter, which included such areas as system integration services, network services, Internet service including Japan's leading ISP, Nifty Serve , and system maintenance and monitoring, accounted for 37 percent of overall revenue in fiscal Hardware generated 27 percent of sales, telecommunications equipment, 15 percent, semiconductors, 14 percent, and other operations, 7 percent. Fujitsu was created on June 20, , as the manufacturing subsidiary of Fuji Electric Limited and charged with continuing the parent company's production of telephones and automatic exchange equipment.
Fuji Electric, itself a joint venture of Japan's Furukawa Electric and the German industrial conglomerate Siemens, was part of Japan's attempt to overcome its late start in modern telecommunications. Spurred by Japan's expanding military economy, Fujitsu quickly branched off into the production of carrier transmission equipment in and radio communication two years later. Yet the country's telephone system remained archaic and incomplete, with German and British systems in use that were not fully compatible.
World War II ruined a large part of this primitive system, destroying some , connections out of a total of 1. At the insistence of the occupying U. Created in , NTT soon became a leading sponsor and purchaser of advanced electronic research, and it continued to be one of Fujitsu's key customers. The link with NTT may well have been Fujitsu's greatest asset, but Fujitsu was only one of a series of increasingly determined government partners for the country's young computer industry.
Fujitsu first became interested in computers in the early s, when Western governments and large corporations began making extensive use of them for time-consuming calculations. This was a start, but the Japanese computer business was still in its infancy when IBM brought out the first transistorized computer in So great was the shock of this quantum leap in design that the Japanese government realized it would have to play a far more vigorous role if the country was not to fall permanently behind the United States.
The government formulated a comprehensive plan that included restrictions on the number and kind of foreign computers imported, low-cost loans and other subsidies to native manufacturers, and the overall management of national production to avoid needless competition while encouraging technological innovation.
Of equal importance, in the Japanese government negotiated with IBM for the right to license critical patents, in exchange allowing the U. Patents in hand, seven Japanese companies entered the computer race. All of them except Fujitsu quickly formed alliances with U. The other Japanese companies were all much larger than Fujitsu and devoted only a fraction of their energy to computers, while Fujitsu soon devoted itself to communications and computers. Able to build on its already substantial electronics experience Fujitsu was directed by the government to concentrate on the development of mainframes and integrated circuitry, and in late it was given the specific goal of developing a competitor to IBM's new transistorized computer.
From the perspective of the marketplace, FONTAC was a complete failure—before it got off the ground IBM had launched its revolutionary series, pushing the Japanese further behind than when they started—but as a first try at a coordinated national computer program, FONTAC proved to be extremely important. Fujitsu and the other Japanese manufacturers could afford poor initial performance, knowing that funds were available for further research and development.
In particular, the Japanese government had by this time formed the Japanese Electronic Computer Company JECC , a quasi-private corporation owned by the seven computer makers but given unlimited low-interest government loans with which to buy and then rent out newly produced computers. In effect, this allowed Fujitsu and the others to receive full payment for their wares immediately, thus greatly increasing corporate cash flow and making possible the huge outlays for research and development.
The result of JECC's largesse was immediate: in the space of a single year— to —Japanese computer sales increased by percent. The company had quickly become JECC's leading manufacturer, supplying approximately 25 percent of all computers purchased by the firm during the s. Visit the websites to find out more about what we can offer our North America customers, or contact the customer service team for more information. Find out more about North American subsidiary companies ».
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