Fujitsu

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Template:Infobox Company¥4,766 billion yen (2004) |

 industry       = Computer hardware, software|
 products       = software & services, computing & communications platforms, electronic devices|
 homepage       = www.fujitsu.com

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For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga.

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services, and is headquartered in Tokyo.

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. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.

By 1954 Fujitsu had rolled out Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and seven years later its transistorized big brother FACOM 222 joined the fray. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū (富士通).

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.

Today, Fujitsu employs some 200,000 people and has another 500 subsidiary companies itself. The active partnership with Siemens AG has been revived in the form of Fujitsu Siemens Computers (est. 1999), Europe's largest IT supplier owned 50/50 by Fujitsu and Siemens. Internationally, Fujitsu considers IBM to be its main competitior. Its historical domestic rival is NEC. Major acquisitions include UK-based International Computers Ltd (ICL) and US-based Amdahl.

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