Dr. Lindsay Frost, Chief Researcher at NEC Laboratories, was chosen as chairman at the first meeting of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Context Information Management (ISG CIM), co-launched by NEC and four other companies.

Fabless IC vendor in Taiwan, Faraday Technology Corporation, has been provided with NEC Corporation's CyberWorkBench, a design tool capable of synthesising Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)/Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits from the C programming language. Faraday is utilising CyberWorkBench (CWB) to design FPGA for communication control.

  A prototype of a massive-element (approximately 500 elements) Active Antenna System (AAS) for base stations that supports 28GHz band has been developed by NEC Corporation, with a view toward the application of 5G, the next-gen wireless communication standard.

The global launch of NeoFace Image data mining (NeoFace Idm) has been announced by NEC Corporation, which is specialised software that utilises Artificial Intelligence (AI) to quickly and accurately search video footage, such as content from crime prevention CCTV cameras, for specific individuals.

NEC Corporation announced the development of the "IoT Service Enabler," a platform capable of automatic network management and control which can also be used for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), an architecture for next-gen wireless infrastructure. The IoT Service Enabler incorporates application interfaces for services, network interfaces defined by 3GPP, and interfaces for sensors and cameras defined by OneM2M, a global standards initiative fo...

Collaborating with the Kyoto Institute of Technology and a representative Japanese lacquerware artist, Dr. Yutaro Shimode, NEC Corporation have announced the development of a bioplastic using resin (cellulose resin from grasses, trees and other non-edible plant resources that features the highly regarded "Urushi black" colour of Japanese traditional lacquerware).

To integrate a complete residential security solution based on a "panic button" alert system, NEC Chile (NEC) and NEC Corporation have announced it has been selected by the Las Condes Municipality, Santiago, Chile. This system is scheduled to launch by the end of September 2016.

  Development of a ‘Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) Solution’ which will be built on Intel processors and enabled by software-based wireless base station functions has been announced by NEC Corporation.

  The development of the ARmKeypad Air, where 'smart glasses' are used to turn the arm of a wearer into a virtual keyboard, allowing for contact-free operation has been announced by NEC Corporation.

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using thermoelectric conversion technology. The spin Seebeck effect has conversion efficiency ten times higher than the conventional method.

NEC announced the successful completion of a PoC trial with KT for a 5G wireless backhaul solution that utilizes E-Band spectrum (70-80GHz). The PoC was conducted at Phoenix Park Ski World in PyeongChang, South Korea, using KT's commercial mobile network infrastructure. KT aims to launch 5G trial services in 2018. This PoC is based on a collaboration agreement in the field of 5G networks signed between KT and NEC in August 2015.

A prototype of an A4-sized massive-element Active Antenna System (AAS) for 5G small cell base stations was demonstrated at Mobile Wold Congress by NEC. The low-SHF band-compatible AAS combines the antenna and RF components through the use of a newly developed high-density printed circuit board and an IC that integrates the high radio frequency circuit with the digital circuit, achieving the practical compact size.

A new collaboration has been announced that will see Space-Time Insight, SMUD and NEC Corporation (NEC) enter into an agreement to work together on technology and business model innovation to meet emerging energy industry needs.

Three supercomputers that have been delivered to institutes in Germany have recently begun operating and contributing to research. The SX-ACE vector supercomputers from NEC Corporation have been installed at the University of Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart.

NEC has announced the signing of a contract with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) and TT dotCom Sdn Bhd (TTdC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME), to construct the Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1 Malaysia (SKR1M), an optical submarine cable system that will connect Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

NEC has announced the global launch of the VC-870 encoder and VD-870 decoder, a series of ultra-low delay codec that enable real-time compression of full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) digital video. These products support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), the latest international video coding standard, which doubles compression efficiency in comparison with the conventional H.264 standard.

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.