1970s: Internationalization
| May 1970 | Information Processing Systems Laboratory is established to promote development and proliferation of information techologies. First organization of its kind in Japan. |
|---|---|
| Oct 1971 | Fujitsu and Hitachi conclude tie-up in computer systems development. |
| Jan 1972 | Fujitsu opens the Japan America Institute of Management Science (JAIMS), a nonprofit post-graduate educational institution, in Hawaii, with the aim of contributing to the development of the Asia-Pacific region by training and educating managers to become effective leaders. |
| May 1972 | Numerical Control Division is spun off into independent company, Fujitsu FANUC Ltd. (now FANUC Ltd.). |
| Oct 1972 | Radio Division is spun off into independent company, Fujitsu TEN Ltd. |
| Dec 1972 | Capital investment in Amdahl Corp. |
| Aug 1973 | FACOM 230"8" Series, employing virtual memory system, is announced. |
| Apr 1974 | On-line banking data communication system, linking 88 banks and 7,200 branches across Japan, is launched. |
| Nov 1974 | FACOM M series of large-scale mainframe computers is introduced. FACOM M-190 recognized as world's largest and fastest computer based on LSI architecture. |
| Dec 1975 | C-Band gallium arsenide field effect transistor developed. |
| Jul 1976 | Ultra-fast DC-400M-type digital communications system delivered to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation for Osaka-Kobe-Himeji network. |
| Aug 1976 | Numazu Plant opens for production of large-scale computers. |
| Nov 1976 | "Reliability and Creativity" is adopted as the company's new slogan. |
| Jan 1977 | FACOM V series of office computers is released. |
| Feb 1978 | First to commercialize 64-Kbit RAM. |
| Apr 1978 | Joint venture agreement concluded with Siemens AG in computing products field. |
| Apr 1979 | Fujitsu introduces Japanese Processing Extended Features (JEF) code, making it possible to process Japanese kanji characters. |
 JEF Code for Japanese Word Processing |
