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The ninth annual IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC), a premier conference for presenting and discussing the latest interconnect and packaging technologies, was held in San Francisco June 5 to 7, 2006. A number of collaborative NEC Electronics/NEC papers were selected for inclusion at this year's conference.

As digital broadcasting becomes more widespread, the EMMA Series of system LSI chips are contributing to the compatibility of HDTV broadcasting with key digital AV appliances, namely the set-top box (STB), the digital TV and the DVD recorder.

A seminar aimed at providing information on 8-bit "all flash" microcontroller solutions and answering questions about these devices was held in Tokyo on July 15, and in Osaka on July 22, 2005.

On June 29, 2005, NEC Electronics' mobile phone application processor (MP211) won the 12th Annual LSI of the Year Excellence Award in the Device Category.

NEC Electronics received the ET Excellence Award at Embedded Technology 2004, an exhibition held at Pacifico Yokohama in Japan from November 17-19, 2004.

At the 11th annual "LSI of the Year" awards ceremony on July 7, 2004, NEC Electronics was awarded the Excellence Award in the Device Category for its audio-video processing LSI (µPD61181) for DVD recorder applications.

For five days from October 7-11, 2003, NEC Electronics participated in CEATEC JAPAN held at Tokyo's Makuhari Messe.

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.

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

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.

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.