Fujitsu Ltd plans to revive its flagging semiconductor business by selling foreign-made chips and producing custom integrated circuits, according to a Nihon Keizai Shimbun report. Fujitsu Device Inc, the company’s distribution subsidiary, will market foreign chips starting with ones from US-based Integrated Circuit Systems Inc designed for telecommunications equipment. Fujitsu has already signed a contract with ICSI for the Japanese market. The subsidiary, in which Fujitsu has an 89% stake, had up to now been selling only Fujitsu-made products, with annual sales at about 120 billion yen ($985m). It expects sales to increase by about 10 billion yen in the next five years by selling foreign products. Another project is to make made-to-order chips for domestic and foreign home appliance manufacturers.
