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Research & Development
With sights on future development, the company intends to focus
its cutting-edge research efforts on the targets outlined below in
order to create a stronger, more strategic business base for the
Fujitsu Group.
1. Enhancing the contributions of research to core businesses
The company will focus on the following research domains to
enhance the Fujitsu Group’s global core businesses.
(1) x86 servers
The goal here is a top-down approach that goes beyond simply
boosting the performance of individual platforms by developing
elemental technologies that will enhance performance for the entire
IT system. Specifically, this will entail a focus on the development of
elemental technologies for achieving virtualization and energy effi-
ciency, simplifying management and operation, and realizing high-
speed interconnection. Such achievements will set Fujitsu’s
high-performance blade servers and large-scale datacenters apart
from competitors.
(2) Cloud computing
Fujitsu will develop distinctive technologies for cloud computing
such as technology to create the virtual platforms required for cloud
computing, as well as an intuitive development and operation envi-
ronment that is open and highly expandable.
(3) LTE
Fujitsu is an industry leader in LTE field testing. We are leveraging this
experience to develop differentiated technologies that will support
our LTE business. At the same time, we are pursuing the technical
standardization and intellectual property that will be necessary for
the LTE-advanced communications standard of the future.
(4) Platform technologies
Fujitsu will focus on the development and enhance the competi-
tiveness of distinctive device technologies for the hardware used in
IT systems.
2. Pioneering R&D and new businesses creation
Determined to create the new businesses of tomorrow, Fujitsu is
advancing research in the following areas.
(1) Human-centric computing
Fujitsu will develop innovative technologies that merge sensors,
terminals, and services in ways that enable us to use sensors to
transform real-world information into intelligence, and offer new
services tailored to peoples’ actual situations.
(2) Green technologies
Fujitsu will take steps to create innovative, cutting-edge technolo-
gies that focus both on enhancing the energy efficiency of IT sys-
tems themselves, and achieving greater energy efficiency through
IT utilization. In this way, the company will build an ecological value
chain that contributes to society and generates new businesses.
Strategic Direction in Fiscal 2009
Topics
“10-Year Vision” Topics for Realizing
a Prosperous Future That Fulfills
People’s Dreams
Fujitsu has formulated a “10-Year Vision” as a
guide for providing people across the
globe with the prosperous and rewarding
future we envisage. Fujitsu is systematically
promoting the research and development
of advanced technology in its determina-
tion to make this vision a reality.
Enabling a Human-Centric Networked Society
By linking everything together, we generate value, realizing a human-centric networked
society that delivers inspiration, discovery, reliability and growth.
Fujitsu seeks to bring about a society that delivers
unprecedented levels of happiness and inspira-
tion, by mobilizing information and communica-
tion technologies to assist people, such as when
the elderly or children need help, or when advice
or guidance is sought in a work environment.
Through eco-friendly and secure information and communications technologies that are all-encompassing
and ubiquitously deployed (“available like air”), Fujitsu supports a human-centric networked society that is
reliable and has superior growth prospects.
By drawing together large volumes of real-world
data to analyze and visualize complex situations,
Fujitsu seeks to provide people with the data that
will enable the realization of an environmentally
sustainable society that is comfortable to live in.
Inspiration Discovery
Reliability and Growth
050 ANNUAL REPORT 2009
FUJITSU LIMITED