Company Profile

Name	Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
Representative	Toshimasa Kihara, President & CEO
Founded	June 1st, 1980
Capital	600 million yen
Equity holders	Hitachi,Ltd.(67%) Renesas Technology Corp.(33%)
Number of employees	1,470( As of April, 2009 )
Annual sales	26,600 million yen (for the financial year ending in March, 2009)
Address	Kokubunji Head Office Postal code:185-0014, 3-1-1 Higashikoigakubo, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo Telephone number: +81-42-326-1111 (main line) FAX number: +81-42-328-4367
URL	http://www.hitachi-ul.co.jp/en/index.html
Group affiliate	Akita Electronics Systems Co., Ltd.

Details on business

Development, design, manufacturing, inspection, and sales of semiconductor products and semiconductor system products.
Development, design, manufacturing, inspection, and sales of electronic appliances related to semiconductor products.
Development, design, manufacturing, inspection, and sales of software related to computers or semiconductor products.
Engineering business related to the sales of semiconductor products.
Patent engineering for semiconductor products and electronic appliances related to semiconductor products.

June,1980	Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd. was established as a center for semiconductor design expertise within the Hitachi Group.
June,1984	The leading-edge technology development divisions of Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd. were split off to establish Hitachi VLSI Engineering Corp.
October,1990	Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd. was renamed Hitachi Microcomputer System, Ltd.
Aprail,1998	Hitachi Microcomputer System, Ltd. and Hitachi ULSI Engineering Corp. were merged to form Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
March,2008	All shares in Akita Electronics Systems Co., Ltd. were acquired from Hitachi, Ltd.; business operations as a unified group commenced.