Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology plan to merge by the end of April 2010 to create the world's third-largest chip maker by revenue, with leading market share in microcontrollers and system-on-chip (SoC) products for cars and mobile devices.
Japanese network equipment vendor NEC is making its first foray into security software at RSA Conference 2009 with the introduction of a Web application firewall to the U.S.
NEC has won a contract to build a new submarine fiber-optic cable linking Indonesia to Hong Kong. The cable will be the first direct link and could be expanded to other ASEAN nations.
NEC is planning to withdraw from the European enterprise PC market in the middle of this year as part of its attempts to stem losses, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
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