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NEC APAC appoints new President and CEO PR Newswire SINGAPORE, May 2, 2024 SINGAPORE , May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. (NEC APAC) today announced the appointment of Takayuki Inaba as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective May 1, 2024 . In his capacity, Mr. Inaba will oversee NEC's operations in the ASEAN region and concurrently serve as the Managing Director for NEC's Singapore operations. A seasoned leader with over 36 years of experience at NEC,...

"NEC cotomi Pro" and "NEC cotomi Light" achieve the same quality as global models at more than 10 times the speed TOKYO, Apr 24, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has expanded its "NEC cotomi" generative AI services with the development of "NEC cotomi Pro" and "NEC cotomi Light," two new high-speed generative AI Large Language Models (LLM) featuring updated training data and architectures. With the rapid development of generative AI in recent years, a wide range of...

TOKYO, Apr 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced a strategic investment in "Seraphim Space Venture Fund II," a pioneering venture capital fund specializing in the space industry and operated by Seraphim Space, the most prolific investor globally in this domain. Seraphim Space boasts a distinguished portfolio comprising over 100 space-related startup companies, covering a spectrum of stages from seed to later stages. Their investments span the entire space...

NEC Malaysia Names Wataru Irie as New Managing Director to Drive Growth PR Newswire KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 15, 2024 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia , April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC Malaysia today announced a leadership shift with the appointment of seasoned technology leader Wataru Irie as its new Managing Director. Irie brings a proven track record of success to this critical role, boasting over 2 decades of experience at NEC. He began his NEC journey in Japan , where he spearheaded...

TOKYO, Apr 11, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC., NTT Corporation, NEC Corporation and Fujitsu Limited jointly announced today the development of a top-level (1) wireless device capable of ultra-high-speed 100 Gbps transmissions in the 100 GHz and 300 GHz sub-terahertz bands. Verification test in the 100 GHz and 300 GHz bands The four companies have been jointly conducting R&D on sub-terahertz devices since 2021 in anticipation of the coming 6G era. To date, tests of a jointly developed...

- Extensive Phase I Immunology data confirm strong immunogenicity of TG4050 in the adjuvant treatment of head and neck cancers. - All treated patients remain disease-free after a median follow up of 18.6 months. - Phase II part of the trial to start enrolling patients in coming weeks. TOKYO, Apr 10, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a...

TOKYO, Apr 8, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has released a white paper, "Towards the realization of AI drug development: Comprehensive process workflow for the commercial use of personalized cancer vaccines". This white paper introduces (1) a comprehensive process workflow that can be applied to a wide range of processes, starting from tumor sample collection to vaccine design, manufacturing, supply, and administration, (2) important perspectives for consideration in the...

- Services launch in 2024 - TOKYO, Mar 25, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has developed a marketing strategy planning & effectiveness simulation technology that utilizes generative AI to identify latent needs of customers and generate optimal measures. According to an NEC survey, this is the world's first technology that can automatically visualize customer interests and preferences (i.e. psychograhic attributes), generate measures, and predict customer responses to those...

~ Progress toward increasing capacity of transoceanic optical submarine cables ~ TOKYO, Mar 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and NTT Corporation (NTT) today announced that they have successfully conducted a first-of-its-kind transoceanic-class 7,280km transmission experiment using a coupled 12-core multicore fiber(1), which consists of 12 optical signal transmission paths in a standard outer diameter optical fiber (0.125 mm). This achievement is expected to be a...

- Smartphones used to quickly estimate causes and to recommend customized exercises - TOKYO, Mar 21, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have developed a technology to support self-care for chronic non-specific lower back pain (CLBP) by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze image and interview data taken with smart devices. This will enable individuals with chronic back pain to easily check their lower back condition and...

TOKYO, Mar 20, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to revolutionize space communications with the development of cutting-edge optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks. The collaboration aims to commercialize and make available on the open market one of the world's fastest space optical terminals, achieving remarkable high-speed inter-satellite communications of 100 Gbps and more, propelling the space...

TOKYO, Mar 7, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been named to the list of Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate Plc., which selects companies and organizations that "sit at the very top of the global innovation ecosystem, with the most consistent above-the-bar innovation performance." This is the 13th* consecutive year that NEC has been selected for the award. Clarivate is one of the world's largest database companies, serving more than 45,000 government and academic...

Strasbourg (France), Tokyo (Japan) and Waltham, Mass, Mar 5, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leader in IT, network and AI technologies and BostonGene Corporation (BostonGene), a leading company in AI-based molecular and immune profiling, today announced the expansion of their collaboration for the randomized Phase I/II trial of TG4050,...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and LONDON, Feb. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NEC X, Inc., the pioneering venture studio backed by NEC’s world-class technological innovation and expertise, today announced its investment in WeWALK , a UK-based startup providing mobility solutions for blind and visually impaired people. Having previously raised a Seed round led by Nesta Impact Investments, with this new strategic investment, WeWALK will integrate NEC’s computer-vision technology into the next-generation of...

- Global expansion through the Open RAN service brand OREX - TOKYO, Feb 26, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced its selection by NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (DOCOMO) as a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) vendor for DOCOMO's nationwide 5G commercial network services. Going forward, NEC plans to provide DOCOMO with vRAN for use in creating flexible and highly scalable 5G networks to be operated on the company's commercial networks. In addition, through OREX (*1) the...

TOKYO, Feb 21, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - In April 2024, NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, will launch a new User Plane Function (UPF) product for telecom operators that can be used to process user data traffic in 5G core networks. Offering an enhanced built-in Deep Packet Inspection (DPI, *1) function enabling visualization of communications quality and the collection of traffic data, an interface for external exposure that provides...

- Using "World Models," NEC's AI technology for robotics enables precise actions in response to the environment, contributing to improved productivity and work-styles - TOKYO, Feb 20, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has developed AI technology for robotics that enables precise handling operations on unorganized and disorderly placed items. By predicting both the areas hidden by obstacles and the results of a robot's actions, this technology makes it possible for robots to...

NEC and Securonix Forge Strategic Alliance to Strengthen Advanced Cyber Defence Solutions PR Newswire SINGAPORE, Feb. 20, 2024 SINGAPORE , Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC Asia Pacific (NEC APAC), the Singapore -based regional headquarters of global technology firm, NEC Corporation, and Securonix, Inc., a leader in Unified Defence Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), have sealed a partnership to enhance and advance NEC's cyber defence services in Southeast Asia . This collaboration...

TOKYO, Feb 19, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701), a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, announced today that it will enhance the NEC Value Added Network Solution Suite by adding open enterprise network solutions to its portfolio, including AI-enabled network and security solutions to accelerate businesses' digital transformation (DX) and enable telecom monetization. Moreover, in collaboration with its strategic global partners, NEC will provide...

TOKYO, Feb 8, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that its face recognition technology has been ranked the world's most accurate in a benchmark test(1) conducted by the globally recognized U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)(2). In this benchmark test, NEC received the highest performance evaluation in "1:N Identification,"(3) which consists of still images of 12 million different people, by achieving an authentication accuracy rate of...