IBM_Fujisawa

IBM Fujisawa

IBM Fujisawa

Subsidiary of IBM Corporation


IBM Fujisawa—located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan—was a manufacturing and development site of IBM Japan, Ltd., a subsidiary of IBM Corporation.[1]

Fujisawa manufacturing

IBM Fujisawa was established in 1967.[2] As a manufacturing plant, it produced the following products:

In 1971, manufacturing of System/360, System/370 and IBM 4300 mainframes moved to the newly opened IBM Yasu in Yasu, Shiga,[3]

In December, 2002, as Hitachi Ltd. bought IBM's hard disk division, IBM Fujisawa became the headquarters and the main plant of Hitachi Global Storage Technology.[5]

Fujisawa development

In 1972, the Fujisawa development lab was established[6] in a new building inside the Fujisawa site. It developed the following hardware and software products:

For worldwide
For Japan and Asia/Pacific

In 1985, the development lab moved to a new site in Yamato, Kanagawa and was called IBM Yamato development laboratory.

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References

  1. Hensch, Kurt (2004). IBM History of Far Eastern Languages in Computing: National Language Support Since 1961 ; [looking to East Asia]. Kurt Hensch. ISBN 978-3-937267-03-6.
  2. "Hitachi And IBM Agree To Strategic Storage Alliance". www-03.ibm.com. 2002-04-16. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  3. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2020-06-07.


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