History

2002 August

Fixstars Corporation established in Yokohama.

2002 October

Organization change to Fixstars Corporation

2003 July

Moved head office to Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

2004 July

Established Multicore Technology Development Department and started Cell software development service

2006 September

Moved head office to Minato, Tokyo

2006 December

Launched PS3 Information Site after the release of the PlayStation 3

2008 May

Developed system for derivative calculation for Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.

2008 October

Established Fixstars Solutions, Inc. in California, USA as a wholly owned subsidiary, and acquired Yellow Dog Linux business from Terra Soft Solutions Inc.

2009 December

Released "The OpenCL Programming Book - Parallel programming for multi-core CPU / GPU"

2010 March

Moved head office to Shinagawa, Tokyo

2010 November

Constructed large scale cluster using PlayStation 3s at the US Air Force Research Lab

2010 December

Adopted for NEDO' s "Low-power Many-core architecture and compiler technology" development project

2013 April

Launched OpenCL FPGA Cards manufactured by Nallatech, USA

2013 June

Received capital of 100 million yen from Toshiba Corporation, increased capital to 26275 million yen

2013 July

Opened Ofuna office in Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture as a base for Flash storage related business

2013 October

Took 2nd place in the worldwide TCFPC 2013 programming contest

2014 April

Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market

2016 April

Participated in the "OpenPOWER Foundation" development community on Power Architecture products

2016 April

Co-developed OSC "Asakusa on M3 BP" OS with Parallel Distributed Framework with Nautilus Technologies, Inc.

2016 November

Moved listing from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market to the First market

2017 June

Supercomputer "Kei" gained first place in the world for the fifth consecutive year in Graph 500

2017 June

Started collaboration with D-Wave Systems Inc., who develops quantum computers

2018 February

Established Fixstars Autonomous Technologies, a joint venture with NEXTY Electronics Corporation, with the intention of expanding business in the field of autonomous operation

2019 October

Established Smart Opinion, joint venture with Prodigy Medical Inc, for commercialization of breast cancer analysis using AI.

2020 March

Acquired the shares of Oscar Technology Corporation and made it a subsidiary.

2021 April

Moved head office to Minato, Tokyo.

2021 October

Established Fixstars Amplify Corporation to provide services and consulting for the quantum computing cloud, Fixstars Amplify.

2022 April

Transferred to the Prime Market in the new market segments.

2024 April

Established Fixstars Investment Corporation.