History

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2002 August

Fixstars Corporation established in Yokohama.

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2002 October

Organization change to Fixstars Corporation

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2003 July

Moved head office to Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

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2004 July

Established Multicore Technology Development Department and started Cell software development service

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2006 September

Moved head office to Minato, Tokyo

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2006 December

Launched PS3 Information Site after the release of the PlayStation 3

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2008 May

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

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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.

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2009 December

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

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2010 March

Moved head office to Shinagawa, Tokyo

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2010 November

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

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2010 December

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

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2013 April

Launched OpenCL FPGA Cards manufactured by Nallatech, USA

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2013 June

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

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2013 July

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

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2013 October

Took 2nd place in the worldwide TCFPC 2013 programming contest

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2014 April

Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market

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2016 April

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

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2016 April

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

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2016 November

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

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2017 June

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

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2017 June

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

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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

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2019 October

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

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2020 March

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

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2021 April

Moved head office to Minato, Tokyo.

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2021 October

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

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2022 April

Transferred to the Prime Market in the new market segments.

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2024 April

Established Fixstars Investment Corporation.