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22 December 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops World's First Touch Panel Using Conductive Polymer Film

Tokyo, December 22, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Component Limited today announced the joint development of the world's first resistive touch panel that uses a conductive polymer film, a transparent conductive film that offers durability 10 times that of the conventional ITO film and succeeds in reducing production costs to less than half. Volume production capabilities for this breakthrough technology have been confirmed.

8 December 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Achieves Breakthrough Output with Gallium Nitride HEMT Amplifier

Kawasaki, December 8, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifier (Figure 1) which achieves the world's highest power output of 174 watts at 63 volts, while demonstrating unprecedented record drain efficiency of 40%, fulfilling W-CDMA system requirements for base stations. This breakthrough represents a significant step forward in making smaller and more energy efficient base stations for 3G mobile networks, and overcomes the technical hurdle for output needs exceeding 150 watts required for realistic application in 3G mobile systems.

12 November 2003  Japan

Fujitsu's Plasma Tube Technologies Herald Advent of 100-Inch-Plus Flat-Screen Displays

Kawasaki, November 12, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a revolutionary new plasma tube technology to produce narrow glass tubes, measuring one meter in length and one-millimeter in diameter, that emit light using the same phosphor structure as in a conventional PDP (plasma display panel). In addition, the company has developed a technology that sandwiches an array of these plasma tubes between two electrode plates to make up a display panel. Fujitsu succeeded in producing a prototype panel using 128 plasma tubes (for a screen size of 128 mm x 1 m) that display moving images in color.

10 November 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops World's Fastest Method of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Drug Discovery

Tokyo, November 10, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited and Tokai University's School of Medicine today announced the successful validation of the new computational method of quantum chemical calculations for drug discovery. The feasibility of the new method was validated and successfully proved by reproducing the biological activities of several AIDS drugs. These computing-based experiments can drastically reduce the number of animal experiments and other conventional techniques in favor of a new computational method - world's fastest Local Self-Consistent Field (Local SCF) method - developed by Fujitsu. This development opens new horizons for the application of quantum chemical calculations in drug discovery.

5 November 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Paves the Way for Next-Generation Genomics-Based Drug Design with Bioinformatics

Tokyo, November 5, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited today announced that, together with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., it has developed a massively parallel simulation server, code-named the "BioServer," that will form the core system for Fujitsu's Genomics-based Drug Design Solutions (*1). The companies also announced that ZOEGENE Corporation (*2), their partner in the biotechnology field, has started validation tests of the BioServer. As an application server specially designed for genomics-based drug design, the BioServer represents a tremendous leap in the effectiveness of genomics-based drug design, enabling greater speed and precision to be applied to the analysis of the structures and functions of proteins, and thereby paving the way towards personalized medicine and the development of novel biopharmaceutical treatments.

6 October 2003  Japan / Germany

Fujitsu and Siemens Business Services Announce Partnership in IT-Services

Tokyo, Japan / Munich, Germany, October 6, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited and Siemens Business Services, a 100 percent subsidiary of Siemens AG, today announced an agreement that will further enhance the two companies' strong regional presence in the field of IT services. The agreement will enable Fujitsu to offer its multinational Japanese customers enhanced coverage in global services in areas of Europe and North America where it does not operate directly. Siemens Business Services now will be able to enhance its service for global customers by drawing on Fujitsu's resources in the Asia Pacific region.

6 October 2003  Japan / USA

Fujitsu Brings Dynamism and Power of Negotiation to the Electronic Marketplace

Kawasaki, Japan / Sunnyvale, CA, USA, October 6, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. today announced that they have developed an open protocol to bring automated negotiation to the electronic marketplace. Computers representing two sides of an e-commerce transaction can generate and exchange proposals back and forth until they find a set of terms that is optimal for both sides. Experienced negotiators know that when a negotiation is enlarged to include a richer set of business terms it becomes easier for both sides to extract value from the transaction. By using computers to automate the negotiation process, a very large number of business terms can be used. This allows both sides to extract more value from each transaction than ever before. This will make e-commerce transactions more efficient, and potentially create entirely new markets.

3 October 2003  Japan

Development of Compact Actuator Unit for Auto Focus on Camera-equipped Cell-phones

Tokyo, October 3, 2003 – FDK CORPORATION developed the world's smallest compact actuator unit, "FCU103" for auto focus function in 1,000,000 pixels class camera-equipped cell-phones. Subminiature cameras in 1,000,000 pixels class camera-equipped cell-phones are expected to have auto focus function, such as in short-distance shooting and macro shooting, adjustment of blurred focus, which enable efficient use of mega pixels.

20 August 2003  Singapore

Fujitsu Asia to Feature 'Go-to-Market' Laboratory at iX 2003 Formulating Competitive Edge IT&T Solutions

Singapore, August 20, 2003 – Fujitsu Asia today announced that it will be exhibiting its inaugural "Go-To-Market" Laboratory (GTM Lab) at iX 2003. 'Lab Rats' will be on hand to provide assistance and support to visitors on how they can transform their businesses into a customer centric enterprise model by leveraging on Fujitsu's best of breed IT solutions.

31 July 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Receives Order for World's Fastest Linux Cluster System from Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research

Tokyo, July 31, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited today announced that the company has received an order from Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken, for a supercomputing-grade cluster of Linux computers with a total of 2,048 CPUs capable of achieving 12.4 teraflops of computing performance. This system will be a model for the next generation of large-scale computing centers, based on Linux, grid computing, and other advanced technologies. It is scheduled to be operational by March 2004.

17 July 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops 90nm CMOS Technology for Digital Consumer and Mobile Applications

Tokyo, July 17, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited today announced that is has developed and begun accepting orders for the CS101 Series of system-on-chips (SoCs) employing its state-of-the-art 90nm CMOS technology.

20 May 2003  Japan

GMPLS Signaling Protocol Interoperability Test in Multilayer Network

Tokyo, May 20, 2003 – Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT; Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Norio Wada), NEC Corporation (Office: Minato-ku Tokyo; President: Akinobu Kanasugi), Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. (Office: Kawasaki-shi; President: Michio Fujisaki), The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Office: Chiyoda-ku; President: Junnosuke Furukawa), and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President & CEO: Tamotsu Nomakuchi) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion to the world's first GMPLS signalinginteroperability test using a multilayer network consisting of packet, TDM, wavelength, and fiber layers. Given the quality requirements set by the application or traffic state, it is possible to select the optimal communication path from among all possible paths that can be established on the multilayer network.

14 May 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops World's First 12-Port, 10 Gbps Ethernet Switch on a Single Chip

Tokyo, May 14, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., working with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Limited, has succeeded in developing the world's first single chip implementation of a 12-port, 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) Ethernet switch.

9 May 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Laboratories Establishes New Lab to Leverage Broadband and Ubiquitous Technologies to Promote More Effective Use of IT Systems

Kawasaki, May 9, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced today that it has established a Laboratory for Broadband and Ubiquitous Technologies ("the Lab") that aims to facilitate the development of proposals to help customers utilize information systems more effectively.

15 April 2003  Japan

FLAG Telecom Awards Fujitsu Contract to Upgrade Capacity of Key Segments of Submarine Cable System Linking Europe and Japan

Tokyo, April 15, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the global communications carrier FLAG Telecom Group Limited to significantly increase capacity on key segments of the FLAG Europe - Asia (FEA) submarine cable system by upgrading terminal station equipment without changing the cable, repeaters or other submarine hardware.

31 March 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops Technology for World's First Contactless Palm Vein Pattern Biometric Authentication System

Tokyo, March 31, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a technology for the world's first contactless biometric authentication system that can verify a person's identity by recognizing the pattern of blood veins in the palm.

27 March 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Laboratories Announces Breakthrough in Enabling Humanoid Robots to Learn Movement using Dynamically Reconfigurable Neural Networks

Tokyo, March 27, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd. today announced that it has developed the world's first learning system for humanoid robots that uses a dynamically reconfigurable neural network to enable the efficient learning of movement and motor coordination. This achievement is a significant leap forward in the development of humanoid robots, making the generation of motion in a humanoid robot, for which complex controls are required, a dramatically faster and simpler process.

17 March 2003  Japan

Development of Mn-Zn Ferrite Material "4H Series"

Tokyo, March 17, 2003 – FDK successfully developed Mn-Zn ferrite material, which has the world's highest saturation magnetic flux density at high temperature. It is the optimum core material for coil products that are used in various transformers for cars and inverter transformers for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

13 March 2003  Japan

Fujitsu, PFU Launch Initial Sales of MARON-1 Internet-Enabled Home Robot to Solutions Providers in Japan Market

Tokyo, March 13, 2003 – Fujitsu Limited and PFU Limited today announced that they have begun initial commercial sales in Japan of their mobile phone-controlled, Internet-enabled robot, MARON-1, targeting system integrators and other businesses looking to provide innovative robotic solutions for in-home use. PFU, a Fujitsu group company, will develop, manufacture and provide user support, and both companies will cooperate in sales and marketing activities.

25 February 2003  Japan

Fujitsu Develops World's First CMOS Interface Technology for 10Gbps Parallel Transmissions

Tokyo, February 25, 2003 – Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first CMOS parallel-interface device for use in standard logic LSI devices to enable high-speed, multi-channel transmissions at speeds of up to 10Gbps. Use of the new technology will enable servers, storage devices and communications equipment to handle even larger amounts of data at higher speeds while consuming less power. It is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the speed and performance of network systems.