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Case: III-1
Group: BT2C
Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda
established Nippon Electric Limited Partnership on
August 31, 1898
On July 17, 1899 the revised treaty between
Japan and the United States went into effect.
Nippon Electric Company, Limited was organized
the same day with Western Electric Company to
become the first Japanese joint venture with
foreign capital.
The company started with the production, sales
and maintenance of telephones and switches.
NEC modernized the production facilities with the
construction of the Mita Plant in 1901 at Mita
Shikokumachi. It was completed in December
1902.
NEC started exporting telephone sets to China in
1904.
NEC started its radio communications business in
1924.
NEC established a radio research unit 1924.
NEC started developing electron tubes in 1925.
By 1930, they were manufacturing their first 500
W radio transmitter.
In 1929 NEC provided Japan's Ministry of
Communications with the A-type switching
system, the first of these systems to be developed
in Japan.
NEC supplied Japan's Ministry of Communications
with nonloaded line carrier equipment for long
distance telephone channels in 1937.
In 1939, NEC established a research laboratory in
the Tamagawa plant. It became the first Japanese
company to successfully test microwave multiplex
communications.
NEC supplied KDD with submarine cable systems
for laying in the Pacific Ocean in 1964. They
supplied short-haul 24 channel PCM carrier
transmission equipment to NTT in 1965.
NEC supplied Comsat Corporation with the
SPADE satellite communications system in 1971.
In 1977, Japan's National Space Development
Agency launched the NEC geostationary
meteorological satellite, named Himawari.
During this period NEC introduced the concept of
"C&C", the integration of computers and
communications.
NEC America Inc. opened a plant in Dallas, Texas
to manufacture PABX and telephone systems in
1978.
In 1980, NEC created the first digital signal
processor, the NEC µPD7710.
NEC introduced the 8-bit PC-8800 series personal
computer in 1981, followed by the 16-bit PC-9800
series in 1982.
In 1986, NEC delivered its SX-2 super computer
to the Houston Advanced Research Center, The
In 1993 NEC's asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
switching system, the NEAX61 (Nippon Electronic
Automatic Exchange) ATM Service Node, went
into service in the United States.
The NEC C&C Research Laboratories, NEC
Europe, Ltd. were opened in Germany in 1994.
In 1998, NEC opened the world's most advanced
semiconductor R&D facility.
Koji Kobayashi ◦ In 1964 ,about 63% of total sales came from
government-related companies
◦ Promoted the computer and semiconductor
businesses forcefully
◦ Created the C&C long-term corporate vision
Tadahiro Sekimoto◦ Established channels for consumer products
throughout Japan and raised NEC’s corporate
image by executing a large-scale campaign for
the C&C strategy
About 95% of R&D budget was distributed to
the business division laboratories
The Business division laboratories:
explored a wide variety of research
fields, including
psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and
civil engineering, in addition to electronics-related
technologies
In June 1988, NEC registered a new
company in the United State, NEC
Research Institute, Inc. (NECI)
To contribute to the progress of knowledge and
information in the 21st century.
To contribute to the NEC’s C&C business.
To contribute to society as a whole in the arts and
sciences.
To establish NEC’s scientific presence, and raise
its corporate image globally.
To develop new technological knowledge and
transfer it to other NEC laboratories.
To attract talented scientists who were essential to
NEC
The NEC Princeton laboratory was
opened in 1989, with 37 employees; a
year later were 66.
To focus on the basic research of innovative
computer technology.
To promote the interfacing between physical
science and computer science.
To acquire intellectual property rights by applying
for patents quickly.
To promote synergy between the Princeton lab
and other NEC labs.
To absorb knowledge from the Princeton scientific
community.
To make the Princeton laboratory a good
technology consultant for all of NEC, and to make
this new site part of NEC community
Create mechanisms to integrate it into the firm’s
overall strategic goals
Laboratory leaders should be prominent
scientists and managers who will be able to fulfill
their responsibilities, to absorb new scientist
knowledge, and to nature ties between the new
sites and the local scientific community.
NEC Laboratories is the innovation engine that
drives our efforts to become the world's number
one provider of technology solutions. The two
principal goals of NEC research programs are: R&D of Base Technology to Create Future Business
R&D of New Technology to Significantly Advance Current
Business
Funding for new research programs at NEC
Laboratories aims to promote rapid progress in
current technologies and to create future business
opportunities.
Such technologies include mission critical systems
based on open systems for use with banking
systems, security systems for privacy
protection, and low powered system LSI used for
mobile and wireless networks
◦ IT/Network Solutions
◦ IT/Network Platform
◦ Device/Materials
◦ Jisso and Production
Technologies/Environment
The spread of the Internet has brought a flood of
information into our lives. We engage in innovation
activities that enhance communication among
people. These activities include automatic
translation that enables people from various
countries to communicate naturally with each
other, data mining that makes sense out of
mountains of information, and security technology
that enables safe and secure IT/Network systems.
Engage in innovation activities that support highly
reliable information lifelines. These activities
include multicast technology to deliver high-
definition level IP broadcasting, technology to
quickly identify the place and cause of network
failure, and high-speed recovery technology to
quickly recover from network failures.
Engaged in many innovation activities to enrich
the standard of living of people. These activities
include development of 1) LSI that can reliably
transmit a high-quality signal at 40 gigabits per
second over an optical system, 2) Low-
power, high-performance multiple core
processors, 3) Quantum computer that reduces
the size and increases speed of computers by 100
times using Nanotechnology.
Engage in many types of innovation activities.
These activities include 1) Packaging
technology and efficient "Monozukuri", which is
production process achieve optimum design and
performance of electronic devices, 2)
Environmentally-friendly secondary batteries that
do not use heavy metals, and 3) Bio-plastic that
contains kenaf fiber, which is a highly effective
material in the fight against global warming.
Research of new forms of information processing
and communication with an outlook of 10 to 30
years into the future
Promoting innovation in business using novel
technologies developed at Central Research
Laboratories
Research and development of service platforms
and service applications as a basis for new
solutions
Research and development of common
technologies and information platform
technologies for creating new solutions
Research and development of platforms for
telecommunications and IT systems
Research and development of equipment and
module technology
Research and development of basic technologies
that can be implemented in chips as NEC
intellectual property (IP) cores thereby raising the
competitiveness of NEC equipment and terminals
Research and development of new functional
electronic materials and devices for achieving
advanced telecommunications, IT systems, and
information devices
Research and development of high-
performance, high-function, and high-efficiency
semiconductor devices for achieving advanced
telecommunications, IT systems, and information
devices
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