NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation {{tyo|6701}}, {{nasdaq|NIPNY}}, {{lse|NEC}} is a multi-national information technologies company headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. NEC provides information technology (IT) and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government. Their business is divided into the three principal segments: IT Solutions, Network Solutions and Electron Devices. The IT Solutions business delivers computing solutions to business enterprises, government and individual customers. The IT Solutions business provides software, hardware and related services. The Network Solutions business designs and provides broadband network systems, mobile and wireless communications network systems, mobile handsets, broadcast and other systems. NEC's Electron Devices business includes semiconductors, displays and other electronic components. NEC produces Versa notebooks for the international market and the Lavie series for Japanese market. NEC was also the creator of the Earth Simulator, the fastest supercomputer in the world at the time. NEC is a part of the Sumitomo Group.

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Technologies - Minato - -ku - Tokyo - Japan - Earth Simulator - Supercomputer - Sumitomo Group

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Over the past five years NEC has ranked consistently in the top 4 companies for number of U.S. patents issued, averaging 1764 granted each year.

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The company was formerly known as Nippon Electric Company, Limited (Jp. 日本電気株式会社 Nippon Denki Kabushikikaisha), before it was renamed in 1983. It still goes by the old name in Japan.

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Jp - 1983

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