IBM Yamato Facility
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IBM Yamato Facility located in the city of Yamato
, Kanagawa Prefecture
, Japan
, is where IBM's research and development activities are done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
and completed in 1985.
, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
. Its buildings were completed in 1985.
etc.
etc.
server systems, storage systems, embedded hardware, communication systems, printers, retail store systems, application systems, telecommunication, Internet related, pervasive computing, finance industry systems, customer relationship management
(CRM), business intelligence
(BI), and technical and consulting services about hardware and software.
, also known as TRL, was established in 1983, as IBM's first research center in Asia、It was initially located in Tokyo
, but moved to the Yamato site in 1993. It is involved in the basic researches, in association with IBM's other research centers at Yorktown Heights, New York (Thomas J. Watson Research Center
); Zurich, Switzerland; etc. In 2008, there are 200 researchers.
Yamato, Kanagawa
is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 225,866 and a density of 8,320 persons per km². The total area was 27.06 km².-Surrounding municipalities:*Zama*Fujisawa*Ebina*Sagamihara*Ayase...
, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, is where IBM's research and development activities are done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Nikken Sekkei
is a Japanese architecture firm headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.-External links:*, official site...
and completed in 1985.
General
IBM Yamato Facility houses IBM's research and development centers in Japan. Its address is 1623-14, Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato CityYamato, Kanagawa
is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 225,866 and a density of 8,320 persons per km². The total area was 27.06 km².-Surrounding municipalities:*Zama*Fujisawa*Ebina*Sagamihara*Ayase...
, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Its buildings were completed in 1985.
History
A brief history is as follows:- IBM did in Japan small-scale development activities, using RPQ procedure at its Special Engineering department - 1960s
- IBM Japan Development Laboratory (JDL) was established in Tokyo - 1972
- JDL moved to IBM FujisawaFujisawa, Kanagawais a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 407,731 and a population density of 5,870 people per km². The total area is 69.51 km²-Geography:...
Plant site, becoming IBM Fujisawa Dvelopment Laboratory (FDL) - 1975 - FDL moved to the current site, becoming IBM Yamato Development Laboratory (usually called Yamato Lab, not as YDL). IBM Tokyo Programming Center (VMVM (operating system)VM refers to a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator for personal computers. The first version, released in 1972, was VM/370, or officially Virtual Machine Facility/370...
/Office System, Banking System, Retail System, etc.) at KawasakiKawasaki, Kanagawais a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area....
also moved here. - 1985 - IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory also moved to Yamato - 1993
- As IBM sold its Personal Computer Division to Lenovo, Yamato Lab's ThinkPad departments were separated, but remain at Yamato site - 2005
For the worldwide market
- IBM 3767IBM 3767IBM 3767 Communication Terminal is a serial printer terminal that employed wire matrix print-head technology and, for the first time, the Synchronous Data Link Control communications protocol set under IBM's Systems Network Architecture...
printer terminal (using SNASystems Network ArchitectureSystems Network Architecture is IBM's proprietary networking architecture created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting computers and their resources. SNA describes the protocol and is, in itself, not actually a program...
/SDLC) - 1974 - IBM 3276IBM 3270The IBM 3270 is a class of block oriented terminals made by IBM since 1972 normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. As such, it was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text colour on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green screen terminals...
3270 display-controller - 1975 - IBM 3101IBM 3101IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station, and its follow-on IBM 3151/315X and IBM 3161/316X are display terminals with asynchronous serial communication that were used to attach to a variety of IBM and non-IBM computers, especially the data processing terminals on non-IBM minicomputers, IBM Series/1 and IBM...
ASCII display - 1979 - IBM 3178 Lower cost 3270 display - 1983
- IBM 3179 Low cost 3270 color display - 1984
- IBM ThinkPadThinkPadThinkPad is line of laptop computers originally sold by IBM but now produced by Lenovo. They are known for their boxy black design, which was modeled after a traditional Japanese lunchbox...
- 1992
etc.
For Japan & Asia-Pacific region
- IBM Kanji SystemIBM Kanji SystemIBM Kanji System was announced in 1971 to support Japanese language processing on the IBM System/360 computers. It was later enhanced by the support of IBM System/34, IBM 5550 and DOS/V.-General:...
- 1971 & 1979 - Double-byte Technical Coordination Office (DTCO), a support center of the Asian languages - 1982
- IBM Multistation 5550 & Bunsho Program (DisplayWrite/5550) - 1983
- IBM 3270IBM 3270The IBM 3270 is a class of block oriented terminals made by IBM since 1972 normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. As such, it was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text colour on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green screen terminals...
Kanji Emulator & IBM 5250IBM 5250IBM 5250 was originally a family of terminal devices sold with the IBM System/34 minicomputer systems. One model was the IBM 5251-11. It also connected to the later System/36, System/38 and AS/400 systems.- Historical origins :...
Kanji Emulator - IBM JXIBM JXThe IBM JX was a personal computer released in 1984 into the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand markets. Designed in Japan, it was based on the technology of the IBM PCjr and was designated the IBM 5511.-General:...
- 1984 - IBM Office & Document Processing System (ODPS), a DBCS-enabled VMVM (operating system)VM refers to a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator for personal computers. The first version, released in 1972, was VM/370, or officially Virtual Machine Facility/370...
/PROFS for CJKCJKCJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which is used in the field of software and communications internationalization.The term CJKV means CJK plus Vietnamese, which constitute the main East Asian languages.- Characteristics :...
) - 1986 - IBM 4680IBM 4683The IBM 4683 was IBM's first PC based point of sale system. It was introduced in 1985. The system consists of a PC-based controller and thin client based POS workstations, typically with a token ring network. The system requires an IBM AS/400 server to be in the network. The 4683 is still used...
Store System (using IBM 5550 base) & IBM 4692 POS Workstation - 1986 - IBM SAIL/ESA (System Development Aid for IMS/ESA On-Line Applications): a package for Japanese financial organizations
- IBM DOS/VDOS/VDOS/V was a Japanese computing initiative starting in 1990 to allow personal computers to handle double-byte Japanese text via software alone. It was developed by IBM for its PS/55 machines . Kanji fonts and other locale information were stored on the hard disk rather than on special chips as in...
- 1990 & PC Open Architecture Developers' GroupPC Open Architecture Developers' GroupPC Open Architecture Developers' Group is a consortium of the major Japanese personal computer manufacturers. Sponsored by IBM during the 1990s, it successfully guided Japan's personal computer manufacturing companies at that time into standardising to an IBM PC-compatible...
(OADG) -1991 - IBM Homepage Builder - 1994
etc.
Development Lab Directors
The Development Lab Directors (or those who were in charge of Development & Manufacturing) were:- Edward V. Hoffler (1971–1974)
- Nobuo Mii (1974–1977)
- Keiichiro Meigo
- Hajime Watabe
- Toshio Yasui (1987–1991)
- Kiyoji Ishida
- Tsutomu Maruyama
- Yukako Uchinaga (2004–2007)
- Yoshinori Sakaue (2007–2008)
- Kazushi Kuse (2009- )
Development project areas
According to IBM Japan, there are at IBM Yamato Facility these projects:server systems, storage systems, embedded hardware, communication systems, printers, retail store systems, application systems, telecommunication, Internet related, pervasive computing, finance industry systems, customer relationship management
Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...
(CRM), business intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
(BI), and technical and consulting services about hardware and software.
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Tokyo Research LaboratoryIBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
The IBM Research - Tokyo, which was called before January 2009 IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory , is one of IBM's eight major worldwide research laboratories. It is a branch of IBM Research...
, also known as TRL, was established in 1983, as IBM's first research center in Asia、It was initially located in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, but moved to the Yamato site in 1993. It is involved in the basic researches, in association with IBM's other research centers at Yorktown Heights, New York (Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division.The center is on three sites, with the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, 38 miles north of New York City, a building in Hawthorne, New York, and offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.- Overview :The...
); Zurich, Switzerland; etc. In 2008, there are 200 researchers.
Access
Ten minutes' walk from:- Chuo-Rinkan StationChuo-Rinkan Stationis an interchange railway station operated by Tokyu Corporation's Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line and the Odakyu Electric Railway's Odakyū Enoshima Line in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan...
on Den-en Toshi Line, Tokyu Electric Railway - Chuo-Rinkan Station on Enoshima Line, Odakyu Electric RailwayOdakyu Electric Railway, or OER, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone....
See also
- IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
- IBM Japan, Ltd. (in Japanese)
- IBM Hakozaki FacilityIBM Hakozaki FacilityIBM Hakozaki Facility located in Nihonbashi-Hakozaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is IBM's largest building in Japan, in terms of the number of people working there. It mainly houses IBM's marketing and systems engineering departments...
(Marketing)
External links
- IBM Japan's Facilities: R&D (in Japanese)
- IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory