1. About Fujitsu
  2. Corporate Profile
  3. History of Fujitsu
  4. Company milestones
  5. Company milestones(Chronological table)

Company milestones(Chronological table)

5. A Decade of Personalization (1980-1991)

1980

  • Becomes largest computer company in Japan
  • Opens Iwate Plant (merges memory chip mass production line from Aizu Plant)
  • Fujitsu Laboratories succeeds in development of High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT)
  • Introduces Japanese word processor, OASYS100

1981

Number of telephone subscribers exceeds 40 million in Japan

  • Opens San Diego Plant in California, U.S.A., and begins local production of semiconductors
  • Lists stock on London Stock Exchange
  • Receives orders from Singapore for world's first fully digital electronic switching system, the FETEX-150
  • Delivers Fujitsu's first optical submarine repeater to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
  • Introduces Fujitsu's first personal computer, FM-8
  • Introduces Fujitsu's first business-use personal computer, FACOM9450

1982

1983

  • Lists stock on the Zurich, Basel, and Geneva stock exchanges (merged now as the SWX Swiss Exchange)
  • Introduces world's first CMOS 256 KB EPROM

1984

Deregulation of Japanese telecommunication market
U.S. based AT&T is split up

  • Opens Dallas Plant in U.S.
  • Opens Mie Plant for prototype development and mass production of large-density memories and large-scale gate arrays
  • Opens Wakamatsu Plant for prototype development and mass production of customized LSI products
  • Introduces Corporate Information Network System (COINS)
  • Starts car phone production
  • FACOM K series leads small business computer market in Japan

1985

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation privatized
Science World Expo, Tsukuba '85 in Japan
Japan longitudinal fiber-optic system completed

1988

Seoul Olympics

  • Launches world's first commercial ISDN service, running on Fujitsu FETEX-150 digital switching system in Singapore

1989

Berlin Wall falls in Germany

  • Adopts new corporate logo
    Image of corporate logo (1989-)

    With the globalization, the present corporate logo in English was enacted. The infinity mark at the top of the "j" and "i" at the center of the "FUJITSU" symbolizes the "Earth" and "Sun," representing the expanse of space and infinite possibilities. FUJITSU Red (red) symbolizes challenging, human and exciting companies.

  • Unveils FM TOWNS 32-bit "hyper-media" personal computer

1990

Iraqi troops invade Kuwait
German reunification

  • Takes 80% stake in UK-based International Computers Limited (ICL)
  • Releases M-1800, the world's fastest ultra-large general-purpose computer

1991

Outbreak of the Gulf War

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