{"id":419977,"date":"2026-05-01T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/419977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:58:11","slug":"fujitsu-says-quantum-and-ai-will-replace-mainframes-in-2035-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/419977\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujitsu says quantum and AI will replace mainframes in 2035 \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it\u2019s working on significant defense projects.<\/p>\n

CEO Takahito Tokita confirmed the 2035 death date earlier this week when delivering a briefing on the company\u2019s medium-term management plan and future directions. He used that moment to note that Fujitsu will turn 100 in 2035, share his view that the company will enjoy its most impactful years between now and its centenary, and suggest AI is the reason the company will remain relevant.<\/p>\n

By 2035, he expects Fujitsu\u2019s hardware engine will be either what he called \u201cAI supercomputers\u201d \u2013 powered by the \u201cMonaka\u201d<\/a> CPUs it\u2019s building with Broadcom and inferencing chips it\u2019s working on with French concern Scaleway \u2013 or quantum computers. He said those machines will become mainstream workhorses in the same year as Fujitsu\u2019s mainframes die,<\/p>\n

The CEO said everything Fujitsu does in the future will involve AI, and the company will eat its own AI dogfood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have built a globally standardized data platform,\u201d Tokita said. \u201cStarting this fiscal year, based on this data platform, we will accelerate the full-scale implementation of AI-driven management using our own AI. This will enhance both the speed and quality of decision-making and management judgments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fujitsu will use its experience to make itself into a case study of clankers running companies.<\/p>\n

The company will also persist with the \u201cUvance\u201d brand under which it blends consultancy services and IT-as-a-service.<\/p>\n

But the company will shift away from systems integration work and charging by the hour to what Tokita described as \u201can earnings structure based on value and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have long managed our business under a highly risky structure in which revenue was heavily concentrated in the fourth quarter,\u201d the CEO told investors in a Q&A session. \u201cWe believe that achieving a more even distribution of revenue across quarters is extremely important for improving the quality of our management, although it is a gradual process,\u201d he added. Customers are apparently on board with this plan, even though the CEO admitted \u201cThere is still plenty of room for further improvement in our pricing model, which outlines our approach for how we provide various technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

More changes are in the works: \u201cI would like to consider an approach in which we charge customers based on factors such as the workload of our personnel and the amount of data required to provide such technologies,\u201d Tokita said.<\/p>\n

Speaking of personnel, Tokita said Fujitsu Japan has stopped its annual graduate intake, and is instead now hiring people with specific skills it needs.<\/p>\n

Asked about the importance of work for the defense sector, Tokita offered the following tantalizing response:<\/p>\n

Fujitsu needs this plan to work, because full-year revenue fell 1.3 percent year-over-year to $22.3 billion, although profit popped 31 percent to $2.2 billion. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-419977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}