Fujitsu Ltd is standing by its 44%-owned US affiliate Amdahl Corp in its hour of need, and after those enormous losses for 1993 (CI No 2,338), it is to provide the Sunnyvale mainframer with $100m in low-interest loans, the Nippon Keizai Shimbun reported. Terms of the deal would be worked out by the end of the month. Fujitsu will also reportedly supply Amdahl with high-speed Unix workstations on an OEM basis, but it is not clear which these will be, since Fujitsu gets its multi-user Sparc-based systems from ICL and buys some of its Unix workstations OEM from Sun Microsystems Inc.
