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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^[1]

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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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-'''NEC''' are a Japanese electronics firm, responsible for a number of parts used in [[Sega]] console and [[arcade]] hardware, and they have published video games for Sega consoles. NEC also released the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16, a rival to the [[Sega Mega Drive]].
+{{sub-stub}}'''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's in-house video game development team before the mid-1990s was called [[NEC Avenue]]; this was eventually consolidated with other software developers to form [[NEC Interchannel]]. Their '''NEC Home Electronics''' division was also responsible for developing and publishing video games during the NEC Interchannel years.
+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==
-===Consoles===
-*[https://necretro.org/PC_Engine PC-Engine] (Japanese version)
-*[https://necretro.org/TurboGrafx-16 TurboGrafx-16] (North American version)
 ===Processors===
-*[[:File:UPD8255A datasheet.pdf|µPD8255A]] (programmable peripheral interface in [[Sega OutRun hardware]])
+*780C (version of [[Zilog]] [[Z80]] [https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/Central_processing_unit CPU] used in [[Sega Master System]])
-*[[Sega Master System/Technical specifications|µPD9004G]] ([[VDP]] in [[Sega Master System II]])
+*[[:File:UPD8255A datasheet.pdf|µPD8255A]] (Programmable Peripheral Interface used in [[Sega OutRun hardware]])
-*[[:File:UPD7759 datasheet.pdf|µPD7759]] ([https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/Sound_chip sound chip] in [[Sega Pico]], [[Sega System 16|System 16B/16C]] and [[System C2]])
+*[[Sega Master System/Technical specifications|µPD9004G]] ([[VDP]] graphics processor used in [[Master System II]])
-*[[:File:UPD70616ProgrammersReferenceManual.pdf|μPD70616]] ([https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/Central_processing_unit CPU] in [[Sega System 32]])
+*[[:File:UPD7759 datasheet.pdf|µPD7759]] (speech synthesis [https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/Sound_chip sound chip] used in [[Sega System 16|System 16B/16C]], [[System C2]] and [[Pico]])
-*µD65654GF102 (sound chip in [[Sega Model 2|Sega Model 2C]])
+*[[:File:UPD70616ProgrammersReferenceManual.pdf|μPD70616]] (CPU used in [[Sega System 32]])
+*µD65654GF102 (sound chip used in MPEG sound boards for [[Sega Model 2|Sega Model 2C]])
 ===[[RAM]]===
-*[[:File:UPD4168 datasheet.pdf|µPD4168]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/PSRAM XRAM] in [[Sega Master System]] and [[Mega Drive]])
+*[[:File:UPD4168 datasheet.pdf|µPD4168]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/PSRAM XRAM] used in [[Sega Master System]] and [[Mega Drive]])
-*[[:File:UPD41264 datasheet.pdf|µPD41264]] ([[VRAM]] in [[Mega Drive]])
+*[[:File:UPD41264 datasheet.pdf|µPD41264]] ([[VRAM]] used in [[Mega Drive]])
-*[[:File:UPD4504161 datasheet.pdf|µPD4504161]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/SDRAM SDRAM] in [[32X]] and [[Saturn]])
+*[[:File:UPD4504161 datasheet.pdf|µPD4504161]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/SDRAM SDRAM] used in [[32X]] and [[Saturn]])
-*[[:File:UPD481850 datasheet.pdf|µPD481850]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/SGRAM SGRAM] in [[Saturn]])
+*[[:File:UPD481850 datasheet.pdf|µPD481850]] ([https://computer.fandom.com/wiki/SGRAM SGRAM] used in [[Saturn]])
-*[[:File:UPD4811650 datasheet.pdf|µPD4811650]] (SGRAM in [[Sega Model 3]])
+*[[:File:UPD4811650 datasheet.pdf|µPD4811650]] (SGRAM used in [[Sega Model 3]])
-*[[:File:UPD432232 datasheet.pdf|µPD432232]] ([[SRAM|Syncronous SRAM]] in [[Sega Hikaru]])
+*[[:File:UPD432232 datasheet.pdf|µPD432232]] ([[SRAM|Syncronous SRAM]] used in [[Sega Hikaru]])
-*[[:File:UPD4564323 datasheet.pdf|µPD4564323]] (SDRAM in [[Sega NAOMI 2]])
+*[[:File:UPD4564323 datasheet.pdf|µPD4564323]] (SDRAM used in [[Sega NAOMI 2]])
-==Softography==
+==Hardware produced==
-:''Note: Likely incomplete. NEC Interchannel games are listed on their own page.''
+{{CompanyHistoryAll|NEC|type=hardware}}
-===[[Saturn]]===
+==References==
-*''[[Blue Breaker: Ken yorimo Hohoemi wo]]'' (1997)
+<references />
-===[[Dreamcast]]===
-*''[[Seventh Cross]]'' (1998)
-*''[[Sengoku Turb]]'' (1999)
-*''[[Espion-Age-Nts]]'' (1999)
-*''[[Sengoku Turb: Fanfan I love me Dance-doubletendre]]'' (1999)
 {{clear}}
 {{NECRetro}}
-[[Category:Third-party software publishers]]