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Press releases dated before 1 April, 2008 are filed by date in the Press Release Archive.

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2010

February 16: NEC builds first Norwegian femtocell network for Network Norway
--- NEC provides Network Norway with a femtocell enterprise commercial pilot ---
February 10: NEC to Show Smallest All-in-One Compact LTE Base Station at MWC 2010
--- Will enable operators to deploy capacity-demand-led LTE services ---
February 9: NEC and PacketVideo to demonstrate new mobile media apps for NEC Femtocell at Mobile World Congress 2010
January 19: NEC's Ultra Compact Microwave Communications System, PASOLINK, Selected by Leading Vietnamese Telecommunications Carrier

2009

December 9

NEC Selected by NTT DOCOMO to Provide Operations Support Systems (OSS)
--- NetCracker's First Launch in Japan ---

November 4

NEC Develops Environmentally Friendly Flame Retardant Bioplastic

October 28

NEC Provides New Fault Tolerant Server with Twice the Processing Performance of Existing Models

October 26

NEC Offers World's First Ubiquitous Business Support System Using Retinal Imaging Displays and Wearable Computers

October 23

NEC Selected for Telefonica's LTE Pilot Trial

October 2

NEC Produces World's Smallest Class
All-in-One Compact Core Network System (EPC) for LTE

September 15

New NEC and Microsoft Solution Based on BI and Data Warehousing Collaboration
--- NEC Becomes the First Japanese Vendor of Servers and Storage Supporting Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) Fast Track Data Warehouse ---

September 8

NEC and BLADE Network Technologies form a Strategic Partnership

NEC's Ultra Compact Microwave Communications System, PASOLINK,
Selected by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company (VMS)
to Support the Growth of Mobile Backhaul Solutions

September 3

NEC Brings a New Solution for Low Cost WDM to Mobile Backhaul

August 5

NEC Enterprise Server Breaks Virtualization Performance Record
--- NEC Express5800/A1160 Xeon Processor-based Server Adds First-place VMmark Benchmark to Growing List of Leading Performance Benchmarks ---

July 23

NEC and Centric Forge Retail Solutions Partnership
--- Execution of a distribution agreement with Centric, a European IT solutions provider handling top retail customer accounts ---

July 7

NEC Introduces High Performance Fingerprint Identification Unit
--- Entering global markets starting with Taiwan and Hong Kong ---

July 1

NEC Strengthens Digital Signage Business
--- Launch of new service solutions supporting digital signage ---

June 30

IDC Frontier Adopts NEC's Enterprise-Class Server and Storage
--- NEC to leverage the success into bringing its cloud platform to the global market ---

June 16

The Hotel El Rompido Golf Evaluates NEC's Hospitality Solution to Improve Profitability and Guest Service Quality

June 15

NEC and F5 Networks Perform Joint Verification of SAP System Optimization Using Power-Saving Platform
--- Power consumption reduced by 62% and operation efficiencies achieved by optimizing the whole system from servers to network ---

June 9

NEC's Next Generation System Hardware Virtualization Technology, ExpEther, Adopted by Nethra Imaging for LSI Development
--- Accelerating towards commercial availability ---

June 4

"Earth Simulator System" Achieves World's Top Computing Efficiency on the LINPACK Benchmark
--- Japan's top sustained performance also achieved ---

June 2

Grid Enables One of the World's Fastest Wide-Area Vector Supercomputing Environments
--- Moving towards large-scale vector cloud computing ---

May 14

NEC Reviews Participation in the MEXT
Next-Generation Supercomputer Project
--- NEC will continue its Supercomputer business ---

April 2

NEC Express5800/A1160 Scalable HA Server Achieves
Another World Record Performance in OLTP Benchmark

March 26

NEC Launches the "CX2800 Series" Multi-service Transport Switch for the Mobile Backhaul 10G Era and Beyond
--- Selected as a vendor for NTT DOCOMO's LTE backhaul network ---

March 18

NEC's Energy Saving Server, ECO CENTER, Deployed in NTT Com Asia's New Hong Kong Data Center

March 17

NEC Express5800/A1160 Scalable HA Server Achieves
World Record Java Virtual Machine Performance among x86-based servers
--- Result also beats other 16-socket servers ---

2008

December 17

NEC to supply next-generation Broadcast Transmitters in Europe

November 18

NEC and NVIDIA Team Up to Sell NVIDIA GPU Computing Solution in HPC Market

November 12

ExpEther Consortium Launched by Institutions Supporting
Virtualization Technology

November 11

Intel(R) Xeon(R)-based NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server Achieves
New World Record TPC-E Benchmark Performance

November 10

NEC and HLRS agree on "Hybrid Supercomputing Collaboration"

October 17

NEC Releases “LaVie Light,” a new computer series targeting the NetBook market
for users needing a PC to easily access Internet and e-mail applications
- Features a 160 GB hard disk, with a 17 mm pitch keyboard for maximum ease of use -

September 16

Joint Development between Unisys and NEC Produces High-End Servers

NEC Launches “Express 5800 Scalable HA Server,” Equipped with the Latest 6-Core Xeon Processor
- 96-Core / 16 Processor Capabilities -

July 23

NEC to deliver Digital TV transmitters to Broadcast Denmark

July 10

NEC secures real Asian expansion with 500 units for the Virtual PC Center
- Strengthening NEC’s Asian sales network: Aim to retain orders from 300 companies by 2010 -

July 3

NEC Contributes to Next Generation Shopping with New POS
- Global Expansion of Transaction Solutions -

June 27

LSI power consumption reduced by as much as 50% with new technology
that "visualizes" temperature distribution
- Fundamental LSI technology for the age of multi-core devices -

June 10

NEC CORPORATION AND NEC CORPORATION OF AMERICA JOINTLY
SHOWCASE NEW CARRIER-CLASS SERVICES AT NXTCOMM08;
HIGHLIGHTING THE INTEGRATION OF NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- Demonstrations Focus on Delivering Next-Generation Network Services to Speed
New Operator Revenue Streams -

June 2

NEC carries out promotional activity in association with the animated
motion picture "The Sky Crawlers"

May 29

Orders for NEC's ultracompact "Pasolink"
microwave communication system on the rise in African markets
-Construction of an Africa based telecommunications engineering center-

May 26

NEC Launches the "ECO CENTER" Energy-Saving Server

May 22

NEC Launches New Fault-Tolerant Server Models
Delivering 20% Performance Gain
Simplified Server Consolidation with
VMware(R) Virtualization Technology Support

May 16

NEC Awarded Contract for New Earth Simulator System
NEC schedules a two-fold increase in effective application performance over existing Earth Simulator to better contribute to global environmental initiatives

May 14

NEC equips Switzerland with mobile TV transmitters
Major contract to set up the mobile TV network for the EURO 2008 Championships

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