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Crafting leading-edge IT solutions for customers around the world
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In October 1996 Fujitsu became the
world’s first manufacturer to mass produce
42-inch full-color plasma display panels.
The product, called Image Site, is being
marketed worldwide.
A large-screen, high-resolution LCD
monitor incorporating Fujitsu’s proprietary
wide-view MVA panel technology.
No. 2 plant on stream. According to
Dataquest, Fujitsu and AMD together
ranked number one worldwide in the
flash memory market in 1997. In the
DRAM field, Fujitsu began shifting
production from 16-Mbit to highly
integrated 64-Mbit synchronous
DRAMs. At the same time, efficiency
was improved by making increasing
use of production facilities that can
make multiple products, including
logic ICs, rather than just DRAM
chips. Moving ahead, Fujitsu will fo-
cus on logic devices, mainly system
LSIs, and in the memory field, flash
memory production capacity will be
expanded while DRAM output is
held back. These moves are designed
to raise the overall profitability of the
semiconductor division.
Responding to rising demand,
Fujitsu boosted production capacity
for SAW filters used in mobile tele-
phones, preserving its top share in
the world marketplace. Compound
semiconductors are another sector in
which Fujitsu excels. De-
mand is rising for use in
communications equip-
ment. Fujitsu is develop-
ing these businesses under
independent management
to quickly seize emerging
opportunities.
In 1997 Fujitsu intro-
duced a high-contrast
version of its 42-inch color
plasma display panel
(PDP) that produces
remarkably sharp images
and natural colors, and is
ideally suited as a wall-
hanging TV. At the same time, it is
extremely light and thin, and has a
wide viewing angle. These qualities
make PDPs ideal for such uses as
mini-theaters, electronic posters and
other large-scale displays. Adding to
our extensive patent portfolio, Fujitsu
was awarded patents covering basic
PDP manufacturing in the U.S., Ja-
pan and Europe for the PDP stripe
rib panel structure and an advanced
drive system for circuits. With these
advantages, we are confident of main-
taining leadership in the PDP market.
In addition, we increased sales of
LCDs for notebook computers. In a
notable technological advance, we de-
veloped a high-resolution 15-inch
MVA (Multi-domain Vertical Align-
ment)-type LCD desktop monitor.