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Fujitsu company history timeline

2008

Our world's first 42-inch plasma display wins an Emmy Award. (FGL discontinued its consumer display business in March 2008)

2009

In January 2009, Fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its HDD business to Toshiba.

In 2009, Fujitsu introduced SPARC64's fastest microprocessor, capable of performing 128 billion computing operations per second.

2012

The LT/LU series slimline air conditioners win the 2012 iF Product Design Award and the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2012 in Germany.

2013

Concerning of Net loss forecast amounted 95 billion yen in the year ending March 2013, in February 2013 Fujitsu announced to cut 5,000 jobs which 3,000 jobs in Japan and the rest overseas from its 170,000 employees.

2014

The publication IP WatchDog analyzed the most interesting patents obtained by Fujitsu in the USA in 2014.

2015

In November 2015, Fujitsu announced the restructuring of the computer and telephone business, as well as the creation of the Internet of Things (IoT) division.

2016

On October 11, 2016, Fujitsu announced a reduction of about 2,200 jobs as part of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) business restructuring program, to which Russia belongs .

According to PCMag, in 2016, Fujitsu Laboratories, in collaboration with specialists University of Tokyo from the University of Tokyo Hospital and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), successfully tested tablets with a translator function.

2017

According to Fujitsu, on April 21, 2017, the process of transferring all personnel in the company's Japanese offices to remote work will begin.

On September 19, 2017, Fujitsu announced the creation of the world's first wearable translator and tests before the commercial introduction of the gadget.

At the end of November 2017, it became known that the company Fujitsu invested almost 2 billion yen ($17.9 million) in a Canadian developer ON for.

On the news of the purchase of a controlling stake in Fujitsu Client Computing, Lenovo quotes jumped 5% in November 2, 2017, which was the strongest rise since August.

According to Reuters, in 2017, Lenovo lost to HP Inc. the title of the world's largest manufacturer of personal computers, after which it began to consider opportunities to strengthen this business.

2018

2018 Kaga Electronics buys Fujitsu Electronics Sale of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor to UMC for $520.25 million Selling the Telephone Business

Recognized as one of 500 outstanding large enterprises in health and productivity management for 2018 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

2019

Revenue in the direction of Device Solutions in the 2019 financial year turned out to be equal to 317 billion yen, having decreased by more than a third compared to the previous year.

Recognized as one of 500 outstanding large enterprises in health and productivity management for 2019 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

The nocria Z/M and KP series wall-mounted air conditioners win the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019.

2020

By the beginning of July 2020, Fujitsu occupies the 17th position in the ranking of the largest employers in Japan, on its account approximately 130 thousand employed citizens.

The company's plant in Augsburg (Germany) will stop operating in September 2020, and product sales will be transferred to partners in about half of the countries.

As part of the transaction, the Chinese company is guaranteed to pay 17.85 billion yen ($156.7 million) from its own funds, and also undertakes to transfer from 2.55 to 12.75 billion yen by 2020, depending on the performance of the acquired business.

Recognized as an outstanding large enterprise in health and productivity management for 2020 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

The remote controller for the nocria X series air conditioner wins the iF Product Design Award 2020.

2021

Recognized as one of 500 outstanding large enterprises in health and productivity management for 2021 (White 500) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

2022

2022: Unix mainframe and server discontinuation and sales plan

Recognized under "the 2022 certified Health & productivity manegement outstanding organizations recognition program ~the large enterprise category~ " held by the ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.

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