NEC Corporation

(in the past Japanese Electric Company, Limited ) is an industrial giant Japanese of the Informatique and Télécommunication ( C&C , for computer & communication ), in the industry group and financial Sumitomo.

History

Founded in 1899 by Kunihiko Iwadare (former employee of Edison to New York) and the American company Western Electric, Japanese Electric Company (ja: 日本電気株式会社 - Japanese Denki Kabushikikaisha ) is the first company with Japanese and foreign mixed capital. It produces then telephones and telephone centres, and widens then its activity with the electronic (semiconductor, integrated circuits) and with the communication systems (by radio, microwaves or underwater cables). Starting from the Years 1960, Japanese Electric Company develops with international (Europe and North America, then Asia) and its production widens in the same way, in telecommunication (satellite, equipment of data-processing networks, then mobile telephony) and the computers (supercomputers and PC, microprocessors).

Into 1983, the group changes its name for NEC Corporation , the initial ones becoming Japanese Electronic Corporation . In 1996, NEC repurchases Packard Bell and amalgamates its microcomputers activity and waiters with that of this manufacturer, by preserving the original marks, on the markets North-American and Europeans.

Today established on the 5 continents, NEC is always directed since the seat of Tokyo, and present on all the major stockmarkets of the world. The range of current activity is very broad, and goes from the basic research to the production, in all the fields of electronics, data processing and telecommunication.

In the years 1980, NEC Semiconductors was the first global manufacturer of semiconductors far in front of Intel. In 2005, NEC Semiconductors points with the 8th place in the classification of the first 20 manufacturers of semiconductors. IN 2006, NEC is in 11th position, because of a quasi stagnant sales turnover (according to the same classification, carried out by isuppli ).

Supercomputers NEC

NEC currently produces the fastest supercomputers of the world, the series SX whose last model is SX-8. Although the Earth Simulator , the Japanese calculator weather/sismo built by NEC with systems SX-6 lost in November 2004 the official title of the most powerful calculator of the world to the profit of Blue obstructs of IBM, it is only with the profit of parallel calculators composed of scalar units much more, and the vectorial units of calculation SX remain fastest on the market in term speed per processor, with 16 GFLOPS in vector calculus for the SX-8 (i.e. 16 billion arithmetic operations on numbers with comma a second). In 2006 an improved version, the SX8-R (Reinforced) posting left 35 Gflops. It is this model which Météo France for its new cluster of calculation chose which carries out the numerical forecasts. It consists of 16 nodes of 8 processors, thus carrying its theoretical power with 4,5 Tera-Failures.

Consoles NEC

NEC was also one of the first actors on the market of the game consoles between 1987 and 1993, with the PC-Engine, SuperGrafx,…, before giving up the sector vis-a-vis Sega and Nintendo; these consoles amongst other things had the characteristic to use as data carrier the Hu-Cards , of the charts to the format credit card equipped with connectors.

Game consoles NEC :

With each change of appearance of consoles NEC, the production costs and the selling price drop, the hull and the connector industry can vary, and the color of the console changes. Thus the PC-Engine is white, CoreGrafX black, CoreGrafX II white, the Duet black and the white Duet-R and Duet-X-ray. (see the article on the PC-Engine)

External bonds

  • NEC France
  • Official site of NEC
  • Supercomputers NEC SX


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