IBM Yamato Facility located in the city of Yamato,

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, is where IBM's research and development activities were 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. In July 2012, all IBM research and development functions completed moving to

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, Tokyo. The last IBM-related organizations left Yamato around September 2012, and the facility is no longer associated with IBM. IBM Yamato Facility houses IBM's research and development centers in Japan. Its address is 1623-14, Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato City,

. Its buildings were completed in 1985.

IBM Yamato Development Laboratory

History

A brief history is as follows: In the 1960s IBM did small-scale development activities in Japan, using

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procedure at its Special Engineering department. In 1972 IBM Japan Development Laboratory (JDL) was established in Tokyo. JDL moved to IBM Fujisawa Plant site in 1975, becoming IBM Fujisawa Development Laboratory (FDL). In 1985 FDL moved to the current site, becoming IBM Yamato Development Laboratory (usually called Yamato Lab, not YDL), and the IBM Tokyo Programming Center ( VM/Office System, Banking System, Retail System, etc.) at Kawasaki also moved here. In 1993 IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory also moved to Yamato. As IBM sold its Personal Computer Division to

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in 2005, Yamato Lab's ThinkPad departments were separated, but remain at Yamato site.

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 *

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(2004–2007) * Yoshinori Sakaue (2007–2008) * Kazushi Kuse (2009- )

Development project areas

Project areas that were at the IBM Yamato Facility according to IBM JapanIBM Japan's Facilities: R&D
/ref> include: server systems, storage systems, embedded hardware, communication systems, printers, retail store systems, application systems, telecommunication, Internet related, pervasive computing, finance industry systems,

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(CRM),

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(BI), and technical and consulting services about hardware and software.

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

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, also known as TRL, was established in 1983, as IBM's first research center in Asia. It was initially located in

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, 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 (

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); Zurich, Switzerland; etc. In 2008, there are 200 researchers.

References

External links

IBM Japan's Facilities: R&D
(in Japanese)
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
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