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History of Fuji Electronics Co., Ltd.

1970- 1970 Founded with paid-up capital of 2 million yen under the name of Fuji Electronics Co., Ltd. registered at 2-7,1-chome,Kasuga,Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Began selling electronic parts and equipments,particularly semiconductor products.
1971 Started to sell semiconductors and IC products manufactured by Motorola Inc. Began selling products manufactured by Texas Instruments Inc. Became an agent for Analog Devices Inc., a manufacturer specializing in operational amplifiers and A/D:D/A converters.
1973 Opened Ochanomizu Office in Ochanomizu, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo and expanded imports of foreign products.
Opened Osaka sales office and started sales activity in Western area of Japan.
1975 Became an agent of Nippon Motorola Ltd.
1978 Increased paid-up capital to 16 million yen.
1979 Became an agent of National Semiconductor Japan Inc.
1980- 1980 Established Fuji Electronics America Inc. in California to collect technological information and to carry out export/import business.
1981 Concluded a direct sales agent agreement with the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and began selling semiconductors, CPUs, memory chips, power modules, stacks, thyristors, SS relays and board computers in Japanese market.
Increased paid-up capital to 32 million yen.
1982 Opened Nagano Sales Office (presently Suwa Office).
Became a direct sales agent of semiconductors in Tokyo area for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
Became a direct sales agent in Western area of Japan for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
1983 Opened West Tokyo Sales Office (presently Tachikawa Sales Office).
Increased paid-up capital to 96 million yen.
1984 Established Fuji Electronics Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong as a sales vehicle for Southeast Asia. Moved Head Office to 2-12, 3-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
Opened Yokohama Sales Office and Nagoya Sales Office.
Increased paid-up capital to 288 million yen.
1989 Became a direct sales agent for Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.
1990- 1990 Became a direct sales agent for Texas Instruments Limited. Opened Ueda Sales office.
Opened shares over the counter market.
Increased paid-up capital to 1,637 million yen.
Opened Atsugi Sales Office.
1992 Opened Ohmiya Sales Office.
1994 Became an agent of Honeywell Inc.
Merged Atsugi Sales Office with Yokohama Sales Office and moved to Kohoku-ku, Yokohama.
Acquired electronic device department of ASCII Mitsui Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
1995 Established Fuji Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd. in Singapore.
Became an agent of Kawasaki Steel Corporation.
1997 Became an agent of Illinois Superconductor Corporation.
Invested in Tokyo Denshi Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Became direct sales agent for TriQuint Semiconductor.
1998 Became direct sales agent for Taiwan Promax Jonton.
Became direct sales agent for Nihon Robinson Nugent K.K.
Became an agent of Innovative Integration Inc.
Became direct sales agent for Coilcraft Inc.
1999 Became agent for QT　Optoelectronics. Acquired Crestronics.
2000- 2000 Became direct sales agent for Micron Technology Inc.
Invested in Global Trade Inc. and planning to move into Internet business.
Invested in Nihon Alps Electronics Co.,Ltd.
Opened Fukuoka Sales Office.
Became agent for Clear Logic,Inc.
2001 Approved as a listed company in the Tokyo Stock Exchange Section 2nd.
Became an agent for RFsolutions Inc.
2002 Became direct sales agent for Stratos Lightwave Inc.
Became direct sales agent for Panjit International Inc.Certified ISO14001 at our HQ office.
2003 Acquired Tokyo Denshi Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange section 1st.
Became direct sales agent for PMC-Sierra Inc.
Became direct sales agent for Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.
Authorized as “Green Partner” by SONY.
Invested in NDR Co.,Ltd.
2004 Established Fuji Electronics Shanghai Co., Ltd. in Shanghai.
2005 Became direct sales agent for Sipex Corporation.
Became direct sales agent for StarGen, Inc.
2006 Became direct sales agent for Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Became direct sales agent for Lattice Semiconductor Corporatiion.
2007 Certified ISO9001.
Became direct sales agent for Avago Technologies Limited.
Acquired Shinsho Electronics Components Co., Ltd.
Acquired Fairchild Shinsho Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
2009 Global Trade Inc. and Shinsho Electronics Components Co., Ltd. of the consolidated subsidiary are integrated into the parent company.
Became direct sales agent for Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions Inc.
2010 Became direct sales agent for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
Became direct sales agent for the Power Semiconductor Products of Cree, Inc.