Leading-Edge Green ICT Research and Development

Basic Approach

Promote the Development of Products and Services that are Optimized to Benefit Lower Environmental Burdens

To achieve the goal of reducing CO2 emissions by about 30 million tons a year in Japan by 2020, as proposed in Green Policy 2020, our medium-term environmental vision, we need to develop revolutionary leading-edge technologies that have even greater environmental burden-lowering effects than at present.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., which handles the Fujitsu Group's leading-edge green ICT R&D, has introduced the slogan "Strengthen leading-edge green ICT R&D and contribute even more to Fujitsu Group business" and is pushing forward with R&D on technologies that can benefit lower environmental burdens. Based on the concept of Green R&D, we are establishing and implementing policies from an environmental standpoint in all development work, from materials and devices through facilities, to systems and solutions.

Efforts in FY 2010

Quantitatively Evaluating CO2 Emissions Reduction Benefits from the R&D Stage

To accelerate our environmentally oriented R&D, in April 2010 we started efforts to evaluate quantitatively the benefits in reduced CO2 emissions (i.e., the environmental contribution) to be expected from the products and services that would include leading-edge technology while we were still in the R&D phase of developing that technology. These efforts are implemented across all units in the laboratories, and since researchers can evaluate the technologies they are responsible for (see figure), we can clarify the main advantages of the technologies from an environmental standpoint. Furthermore, by adding "the environment" to the axes of performance/functionality/quality and cost, R&D on leadingedge technologies that is balanced across all three of these axes becomes possible.

The Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI) sets up "Strengthening leading-edge green ICT R&D" as a priority and divides this into two areas with specific targets: the area of next-generation data centers and networks and the area of solutions.

The target for the next-generation data center and network area is developing technologies that can double the overall efficiency of ICT equipment by the end of FY 2012. The target for the solutions area, also by the end of FY 2012, is to increase by at least 35% the development ratio for technologies that improve the effective reduction of environmental burdens.

In FY 2010, we did not just clear the target of developing technologies that can increase ICT equipment efficiency by of 1.2 times, we improved it to 1.3 times. Then again, in the solutions area, we were able to achieve a development ratio of 58% for technologies that improve the effective reduction of environmental burdens rather than the minimum 25% of the fi scal year target. Based on these results, we revised the solutions area development ratio target to at least 70% by the end of FY 2012.

Fujitsu Laboratories Inc. will, while further increasing the environmental contribution of our leading-edge technologies, aim to expand the applications areas to complete systems including those in which the individual technologies work together.