NEC

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NEC
Founded: 1899-07-17
Merged with: Renesas Electronics
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View, California 94039, United States

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NEC (Nippon Electric Company; 日本電気株式会社) are a Japanese electronics firm, specializing in IT services and products. Before its merger with fellow Japanese electronics company Renesas in 2010, it was one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, ranked #1 from the 1980s to 1991, #2 from 1992 to 1999 (surpassed by Intel), and in the top ten during the 2000s. It was responsible for a number of parts used in Sega console and arcade hardware.

NEC had multiple divisions involved with video games: NEC Home Electronics (produced computers, consoles, and games), NEC Avenue (produced games) and NEC Interchannel (produced games).

Hardware

Processors

• 780C (version of Zilog Z80 CPU used in Sega Master System)
• µPD8255A (Programmable Peripheral Interface used in Sega OutRun hardware)
• µPD9004G (VDP graphics processor used in Master System II)
• µPD7759 (speech synthesis sound chip used in System 16B/16C, System C2 and Pico)
• μPD70616 (CPU used in Sega System 32)
• µD65654GF102 (sound chip used in MPEG sound boards for Sega Model 2C)

RAM

• µPD4168 (XRAM used in Sega Master System and Mega Drive)
• µPD41264 (VRAM used in Mega Drive)
• µPD4504161 (SDRAM used in 32X and Saturn)
• µPD481850 (SGRAM used in Saturn)
• µPD4811650 (SGRAM used in Sega Model 3)
• µPD432232 (Syncronous SRAM used in Sega Hikaru)
• µPD4564323 (SDRAM used in Sega NAOMI 2)

Hardware produced

• PC-8000 series (1979)

References

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