NEC has announced its selection by the Receita Federal (Brazilian National Tax Collection Agency) to provide NeoFace Watch facial recognition technology for 14 international airports throughout Brazil, including the major hub of Governador Andre Franco Montoro International airport (Guarulhos airport) in Sao Paolo and Antonio Carlos Jobim International airport (Galeao airport) in Rio de Janeiro, in order to enhance the effectiveness and efficienc...

NEC has won an order from Toshima Ward, Tokyo for a Comprehensive Disaster Control System construction project, which will incorporate one of the world's first crowd behaviour analysis technologies, utilising security camera footage to understand the behaviour of crowds and to detect abnormalities. This system is scheduled to come into service in May 2015.

NEC Corporation has developed electromagnetic noise suppression technologies that improve the reception of antennas by as much as 10 times for high-speed wireless communications devices using internal printed circuit boards with NEC's independently developed artificial materials. These technologies improve the transmission performance of wireless devices and enable high-speed communications that are up to 2 times faster than that of devices witho...

NEC Corporation has recently announced that it has performed the world's first successful trial of real-time 1Tb/s super-channel transmission using 100GbE subcarriers over a trans-oceanic distance. In recent years, the international demand for bandwidth is growing at a remarkable pace, thanks in part to the globalization of resource-hungry applications such as VoD, High Definition videoconferencing and cloud computing.

NEC Corporation and Murata have reached an agreement to transfer the magneto-resistance sensor business of NEC and NEC Yamanashi, a wholly owned NEC subsidiary, to Murata. Under the agreement, the transfer is scheduled to be complete by June 1, 2013. This business transfer is expected to have minimal influence on the consolidated financial results of both companies.

NEC will showcase its wide spectrum of business solutions for SMB and Enterprise markets at Gitex Technology Week in Dubai from 14-18 October 2012.

NEC has introduced enhancements to its software defined networking product family, ProgrammableFlow. These enhancements allow enterprises and cloud operators to automate provisioning of high performance network services. With version 3.0, NEC is redefining the role of the network from focusing primarily on connectivity to an intelligent, unified, and open fabric that enables dynamic service provisioning and scalable cloud solutions within a multi...

NEC Corporation announced today the launch a new generation of servers based on the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 product family supporting ProgrammableFlow networking. The new generation of Express5800 E5 Generation Series servers will benefit from the performance boost and energy-efficiency of the new Intel Xeon processor E5 family combined with NEC's own innovations for higher manageability, energy efficiency and higher scalability.

NEC announced today the launch of new indoor LTE Femtocell base stations for telecom carriers. The base stations achieve high-speed, high-volume wireless communications in indoor areas such as offices and homes. The new product is available in two models, one designed for enterprise and another for residential customers. The base stations will be available in the second quarter of 2012.

NEC Corporation (NEC) has announced the successful experimental demonstration of 1.15-Tb/s ultra-long haul optical transmission over 10,000 kilometers using optical superchannel technology. This is the first instance that a terabit/s channel generated from a single laser source has been transmitted over such a distance. Four superchannels were transmitted together by wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to achieve a total capacity of 4 Tb/s and...

NEC Corporation announces the development of super-resolution technologies for fine magnification of surveillance camera images, including persons' faces and license plates.

NEC Electronics has announced the availability of new system-on-chips (SoCs), the EC-4260 (NaviEngine-MID) and EC-4250 (NaviEngine-mini) for use in automotive infotainment systems. The new devices have the performance, peripheral set, and software ecosystem to meet the demands of high performance applications such as navigation, infotainment, and telematics systems. NEC Electronics first introduced the EC-4270 (NaviEngine) with four embedded CPU ...

NEC Electronics announced the availability of 14 new All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), the 78K0/Dx2 product series with simple gages The new offering includes wide range of peripherals with either 80 pins or 64 pins and memory capacity ranging from 60 kilobytes (KB) down to 24 KB.

Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced that its Vocallo MGW multi-core DSP platform has been chosen by NEC Infrontia Corporation, a related company of NEC Corporation responsible for development and manufacturing advanced network, communications and information technology systems. NEC Infrontia has integrated Octasic™s Vocallo MGW platform into its new enterprise system UNIVERGE Aspire X fo...

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today three new single board computer options, designed to be seamlessly integrated into select NEC large-format displays, as well as an external PC option. Technovare Systems, Inc., a rising AV company based in California, has partnered with NEC to design and build the four new accessories, which are ideal in airports, public informa...

NEC Electronics Europe today announced it has expanded its popular 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the new All Flash™ 78K0/Kx2-A MCU series, featuring enhanced analog functionality for battery-operated portable devices. The four new MCUs offer robust peripherals combined with NEC Electronics’ proven 78K0 MCU interface and safety features to support applications that require high-precision analog sensing capabilities. Target applica...

La société NEC Electronics est fière d'annoncer la commercialisation de quatre nouveaux IPD (Intelligent Power Devices) : les μPD166017, μPD166019, μPD166020 et μPD166021. Ces IPD « high side » sont particulièrement adaptés aux systèmes d'éclairage automobile et autres charges typiques d'un véhicule. Conçus pour les unités de contrôle électronique (ECU) embarquées et plus spécifiquement pour les commandes de fe...

Afin de faire bénéficier de sa technologie DRAM embarquée (eDRAM) aux concepteurs de téléphones mobiles, lecteurs MP3 et autres appareils portables, NEC Electronics introduit deux nouveaux composants monopuce (SoC), μPD60800 et μPD60801. Ces deux nouvelles solutions SoC intègrent 16 mégabits (μPD60800) et 30 mégabits (μPD60801) de mémoire eDRAM avec logique de traitement graphique et connexion grande vitesse, via une ...

NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the new organizational structure and personnel changes of Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas Electronics), the new integrated company that will be formed on April 1, 2010 when the business integration (the “Business Integration” or the “Merger”) of the two entities is completed.

Viaccess, a France Telecom company and leader in conditional access and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, today announced their collaboration to offer Viaccess’ conditional access incorporated in NEC Electronics’ new EMMA™3SL/P system-on-chip (SoC), targeted at MPEG-4 HD hybrid set-top boxes (STBs).