NEC
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| NEC | ||
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| Founded: 1899-07-17 | ||
| T-series code: T-388 | ||
| Merged with: Renesas Electronics | ||
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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 also released the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, a rival to the Mega Drive. NEC later published video games for Sega consoles.
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 (日本電気ホームエレクトロニクス) division was also responsible for developing and publishing video games during the NEC Interchannel years.
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Hardware
Consoles
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)
Third-party games for NEC consoles
NEC Avenue, Asmik, and Nihon Telenet published Sega-related titles for NEC consoles.
- Fantasy Zone (1988; NEC Avenue)
- Space Harrier (1988; NEC Avenue)
- Juuouki (1989; NEC Avenue)
- Shinobi (1989; Asmik)
- Golden Axe (1990; Nihon Telenet)
- Power Drift (1990; Asmik)
- After Burner II (1990; NEC Avenue)
- Thunder Blade (1990; NEC Avenue)
- OutRun (1990; NEC Avenue)
- Columns (1991; Nihon Telenet)
- Bonanza Bros. (1992; NEC Avenue)
- Gain Ground (1992; NEC Avenue)
References
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