NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社, Nippon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational information technology corporation founded on 17 July 1899 in Tokyo as Nippon Electric Company, Limited — Japan's first joint venture with foreign capital (Western Electric Company). The current name "NEC Corporation" has been in use since April 1983. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under ticker 6701. Its registered headquarters is located at 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8001. NEC employs 105,276 staff on a consolidated basis as of 31 March 2024. The company operates across five business segments: Public Solutions, Public Infrastructure, Enterprise, Network Services, and Global Business. In the AI domain, NEC develops its proprietary large language model NEC cotomi, the digital transformation platform NEC BluStellar, and autonomous AI systems (Agentic AI). NEC Generative AI Service was launched in July 2023. In December 2023, NEC announced a new AI strategy and plans to achieve approximately 50 billion JPY in AI-related revenue over the following three years. NEC's customers include government agencies, local authorities, healthcare institutions, financial services firms, and telecommunications operators in Japan and worldwide.