NEC

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NEC was established as Nippon Electric Limited Partnership in August 31, 1898 by Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda. They started with the production, sales and maintenance of telephones and switches.

Nowadays, NEC Corporation 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.

[edit] Microprocessors

• 64-bit RISC processors
  • VR5000
  • VR5400
  • VR10000
  • VR12000

• Vector processors
  • NEC SX

[edit] Computer Systems

• Supercomputers:
  • SX-2 (1986)
  • SX-3 (1990)
  • SX-4 (1994)
  • SX-5 (1999)
  • SX-6 (2002)(Earth Simulator)
  • SX-8 (2005)
  • SX-9 (2007)

[edit] External Resourses

• NEC