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Nearly all passenger cars now come equipped with car audio systems. In recent years, car audio makers have overcome numerous barriers to develop and provide a vast array of differentiated products boasting improved sound and visual quality.

On June 23, 2003, the opening ceremony of the Advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) Joint Research Center at NEC Sagamihara plant was held by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an incorporated administrative agency.

NEC Electronics has published an environmental report for the first time since its launch from NEC.

On July 24, 2003, nine months after our company's establishment, we were pleased to have NEC Electronics stocks listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).

On July 9, 2003, NEC Electronics received two "LSI of the Year 2003" awards, sponsored by Semiconductor Industry News and Reed Exhibitions Japan, Ltd.

The 2003 VLSI (Very Large-Scale Integration) Symposia, an influential international semiconductor conference, was held on June 10-14, 2003, in Kyoto, Japan. Here we will introduce the research results presented by NEC Electronics at the VLSI Symposia.

On July 2, 2003, NEC Electronics' 192-output µPD16347 plasma display panel (PDP) data driver IC received the Advanced Display of the Year (ADY) 2003 Grand Prize in the Display Materials and Components Category.

At the 6th Embedded Systems Expo & Conference (ESEC) held July 9-11 in Tokyo, NEC Electronics' booth staffers exhibited a variety of embedded solutions, including the Instant Silicon Solution Platform™ (ISSP™) that enables high-performance ASIC design in a short period of time and the company's 64-bit V_R Series™ RISC microprocessor line-up, among others.

It wasn't all that long ago that satellite communication came to mind when thinking about a means of communication that could be employed regardless of location. Now, however, mobile phones probably first come to mind for the majority of us.

Have you noticed recently that it has become much easier to connect peripheral devices such as printers and digital cameras to your computer? Previously, for you to use peripheral devices, they needed to be plugged into the computer before the computer was turned on.

In the spring of 2001, as development of the UX6 90nm process reached its climax, NEC Electronics launched the CB-90 Development Promotion Conference to promote the commercialization of new products using 90 nm.

On May 5 (U.S. time), NEC Electronics America successfully demonstrated the PCI Express™ system, the next-generation bus standard advocated by Intel Corporation, at the Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans.

We will present information about the much talked about DVD recorder and focus on image data conversion and compression technology, as well as MPEG-2 audio/video codec LSIs.

Digital terrestrial broadcasting is set to begin in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya at the end of 2003. We will be introducing a semiconductor that has integrated all of the functions necessary to receive digital terrestrial broadcasts via mobile phones and other devices on a single chip.

Part 1 of this series describes the challenges process engineers faced during the development of the world's first 90 nm process, the foundation of CB-90 system LSI design.

NEC Electronics received the 2002 Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award from Intel Corporation on March 26 (U.S. time). The SCQI award recognizes a select group of suppliers who have been highly evaluated for the quality and performance of the products and services they provide to Intel.