Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (NEC) was established in 1899 as Japan's first joint venture with a foreign-owned company. In keeping with its founding spirit of "Better Products, Better Services," NEC has continued to provide services using its distinctive technologies in addition to ICT equipment such as telecommunications equipment and computers.
1899
1977
2013
2020
Establishment社会価値創造型of 企Nippon業への変革 Electric Company
The Founding Spirit of "Better Products, Better Services"
Create customer satisfaction and pleasure by consistently providing
better products and services.
C&C Announced
The Integration of Computers
and Communications
The aspiration of enabling people throughout the world to connect anytime, anywhere, and with anyone, is aligned with the SDGs aspiration to "leave no one behind."
Transformation into a Social
NEC Way
Value Innovator
As the value expected by customers and society changed
To mark the 120th anniversary of our founding, in 2020
from our tangible technologies and products to the intan-
we defined our "Purpose" within the NEC Way as "NEC
gible creation of value, we responded under the Mid-term
creates the social values of safety, security, fairness and
Management Plan 2015 by declaring our intention to
efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where
transform into a Social Value Innovator.
everyone has the chance to reach their full potential."
Founder: Kunihiko Iwadare
Announcement of
C&C at INTELCOM '77
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2010
2018
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Network
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1928
1964
2016
NipponElectric
Transmittedscenes of
Internationalsatel-
Japan'sfirst
Startedmanufac-
Ultra-compact radio communica-
Asteroidexplorer
Submarinecable
Asteroidexplorer
Beganshipping base stations for
Company, Ltd.
Imperial Accession
lite TV broadcasts of
satellite, Osumi
turing optical
tions system PASOLINK secured
"HAYABUSA"
installation reaches
HAYABUSA 2 reached
5G networks
established
Ceremony of Emperor
the Tokyo Olympics
submarine relay
top global market share
successfully
over 250,000km,
the asteroid Ryugu
Hirohito
equipment
returned to Earth
enough to encircle
the Earth six times
NEC's
1954
1974
2002
2012
2015
2020
1958
1982
IT
into computers
fully transistorized
family announced
puter system for resolv-
the Soccer World Cup held
the Individual
services
strengths
Beganresearch
Developedthe first
The ACOS Series 77
The PC-9801 personal
The Earth Simulator, the
Built ICT infrastructure for
Contributedto
Startedquantum
domestically produced
mainframe computer
computer announced
world's fastest supercom-
multiple stadiums used in
implementation of
computing application
developed to
NEAC-2201 computer
problems, completed
in Brazil
Number System
ing global environmental
date
1960
1984
2004
2009
2016
2018
2019
AI
1971
Starteddevelopment of optical character
Fully automated
Receivedan order in
No. 1 in fingerprint
No. 1 in facial
Biometricssolutions adopted in
Establishedthe
Enteredthe drug discovery business
recognition (OCR)
postal sorting
the U.S. for fingerprint
authentication*1
authentication*2
70 countries in total
biometric authenti-
specializing in advanced immuno-
system
matching services
Formulated the AI technology
cation brand
therapy using "NEC the WISE"
brand "NEC the WISE"
"Bio-IDiom"
*1 Ranked 1st eight times in task assessment sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) *2 Ranked 1st six times in task assessment sponsored by NIST
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NEC Corporation specializes in the manufacturing and marketing computing and telecommunication equipments. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- IT services (53.9%): integration, maintenance, outsourcing, support services, etc.;
- sale of IT infrastructure products and network systems (17%). In addition, the group provides network services;
- sale of digital government and financial services software (14.9%);
- other (12.7%): sale of hardware, mobile telephones, lighting products, energy management and storage systems, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (75%), Asia/Pacific (11.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (9.8%) and Americas (4%).
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