NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has announced an investment in the "Geodesic Alliance Fund, L.P." (hereafter, "the Fund"), a fund managed by the U.S. venture capital (VC) firm "Geodesic Investments, L.L.C." (hereafter, "Geodesic"), with the aim of strengthening its business in the area of economic security, including space, submarine cables, cyber security and national defense.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that its face recognition technology was ranked the world's most accurate in the most recent benchmark test conducted by the globally recognized U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) .
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NEC Orchestrating Future Fund*, an ecosystem-based corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, has invested in new windowRescale, Inc. (Rescale), a San Francisco-based technology company that provides cloud high performance computing (HPC).
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SITA, the global leader in air transport technology and border management, and NEC Corporation (NEC), a global leader in biometric authentication technologies, have signed an agreement to accelerate the adoption of digital identity technology in the travel industry.
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NEC Corporation has developed and successfully demonstrated a technology that enables face recognition without storing patients' facial information and ensures traceability through the entire workflow process for personalized cancer vaccine.
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NEC Corporation and Kyodoshoji Corporation Limited (COEDO Brewery) have developed four craft beers under "The taste of life created by brewers and AI "Agentic AI - Craft Beer" name to promote intergenerational communication.
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NEC Corporation has started international sales of a 25G tunable SFP extended reach optical transceiver equipped with a tunable laser that improves transmission distance from the 15km of conventional products to 40km, one of the longest transmission distances in the industry.
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NEC Corporation has received an order from Japan?s Immigration Services Agency (ISA) for walkthrough gates utilizing face recognition technology to further streamline airport arrival procedures.
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NTT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC. and NEC Corporation announced today that they demonstrated a real-time bidirectional wireless transmission in the millimeter wave band between 71 GHz and 86 GHz that achieved a bit rate of 140 Gbps --- unprecedented for sub-100 GHz frequencies.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has announced that it will partner with the Nagasaki University DEJIMA Infectious Disease Research Alliance (Director: Prof. Kouichi Morita) for a research and development (R&D) project with support from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
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NEC Corporation has improved the performance-to-power ratio of 5G mobile core systems (5GC) by more than 6 times, as well as floor space density by 10 times.
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NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has developed and commercialized software for virtualized radio access network (vRAN) base stations. The company aims to provide this software to telecommunications carriers in Japan and internationally, and to deploy more than 50,000 vRAN base stations by fiscal 2026.
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NEC Corporation has developed vRAN that supports the interfaces and components newly specified by the O-RAN Alliance for enhancing the security of Open vRAN. The NEC vRAN platform is now being used to verify the performance of SecureRAN provided by CTOne, a subsidiary of Trend Micro, which also supports the specifications of the O-RAN Alliance.
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As part of its corporate governance reform, NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) shifted to a Company with a Nominating Committee, etc. in fiscal 2023, and has been promoting the separation of oversight and execution and the clarification of the roles of each.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced the results of the latest NEC Innovation Challenge, a global accelerator program sponsored by NEC and partner companies that invites startup companies across the globe to apply and submit innovative solutions under the four key themes of Healthcare, Sustainability, Digital Operational Excellence, and Media/Entertainment
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NEC Corporation has developed a Near Real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (Near-RT RIC) platform and RIC applications that enable flexible and intelligent network control that is compliant with the O-RAN Alliance (*1) specifications for virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRAN).
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NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC Corporation's portfolio of advanced technologies and global businesses, today announced a new partnership with Carbide Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with hands-on mentorship and a proven track record of founding and rapidly scaling B2B SaaS startups.
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NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, an ecosystem-based corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, has invested in Aetion, Inc., a U.S.-based provider of healthcare platforms.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed a solution that enables the modernization of tasks, including planning, design and construction work, when telecommunications carriers install network infrastructure such as base stations.
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NEC Corporation has utilized its video analysis and generative AI to develop a technology that provides advice for improving worker performance by identifying differences between model actions and actual movements.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced hootfolio, Inc., a provider of causal analysis AI solutions that support decision making by visualizing the cause-and-effect relationships of things from data, launched business on January 1, 2025.
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and NEC Corporation, the prime contractor of the laser-communication terminals for the Laser Utilizing Communication System (LUCAS).
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NEC Corporation has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World Index (DJSI World) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Asia Pacific Index, two of the most prestigious global indexes of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment.
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Biomy, Inc. (Biomy) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint marketing partnership to develop and expand artificial intelligence/deep learning (AI/DL)-based analytical platforms in the field of digital pathology.
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NEC Corporation today announced it has finished construction of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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NEC Corporation, a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, has been selected as winner of the Most Innovative Product/Service/Automation (Vendor) Global at the Telecom Review Leaders' Summit 2024. NEC received this award for Telecom B2B/ Enterprise Network Solutions.
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NEC Bio Therapeutics today presents 24-week promising interim results from an ongoing Phase 1 basket clinical trial of an orally administered cancer vaccine, NECVAX-NEO1, used in combination with checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) for treating patients with solid tumors.
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NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has expanded its lineup of optical transceivers for 100Gb/s transmission, and has started selling the new "100G QSFP28 ZR4 BiDi," which extends transmission distance to 80km, from today.
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Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) and NEC Corporation (NEC) have jointly conducted a trial of the "NEC Baggage Counting Solution"(1), which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically analyze the quantity and types of carry-on baggage at boarding gates.
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