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NEC Electronics Unveils Business Expansion Plan for V850 Microcontroller Products
The Company's Proprietary 32-bit Microcontroller Achieved a Shipping Record of 270 Million Pieces
KAWASAKI, Japan, October 15, 2003 -
NEC Electronics Corporation today announced a new policy of business expansion based on aggressive promotion of the NEC Electronics proprietary 32-bit V850 core as a strategic product. Since the introduction of the first single-chip microcontroller with the V850 core in April 1996, NEC Electronics has been promoting the V850 family products and has extended the product portfolio to ASSPs and IP cores for ASICs. As a result of the vigorous promotion, the cumulative shipping volume of the V850 family reached 270 million pieces in September this year, far exceeding the 250 million pieces originally targeted. The company intends to further enhance the promotion of the V850 core products and expects to ship 300 million pieces by the end of this year and targets to reach sales revenue of 100 billion yen in 2005.
The V850 core is an NEC Electronics proprietary 32-bit microcontroller core which has an optimal architecture for control systems such as servo systems and is widely deployed in applications like automotive engine control, body control, inverter control, disc drive control and other consumer products. These applications require high speed processing within certain limited time as well as real time processing providing steady and speedy responses to the peripheral systems connected. The V850 core is best suited to meet these market demands as it has the architecture capable of maximizing the processing performance and empowering the processing performance for more complex processing. Extensively shipped both in Japan and to North America, Europe, and Asian regions, the popular V850 core is now widely recognized by users worldwide and offered through NEC Electronics' global sales network.
To further promote sales of the V850, NEC Electronics has clarified the core's status as "strategic CPU core product" and will commence aggressive business expansion by focusing the development for automotive and consumer electronics markets as well as targeting applications such as printer, digital audio/video, and optical storage with ASSPs and ASICs, taking advantage of its structure as a customizable core.
The details of the business expansion measures are as follows.
1) Enhance the development structure and solution portfolio
NEC Electronics has development centers in Japan, North America, Europe, and China to quickly catch the customer needs and develop the V850 products. In addition, the core supports various OSs such as OSEK, which is the standard OS for CAN in automotive market, TRON, VxWorks, and Nucleus, which are widely used as OSs for embedded systems. The company will further enhance this support structure by more efficient development and the reuse of design assets by adopting C-language design environment, as well as providing robust development platform to OEMs such as systems reference boards and middleware, which enable short design cycle and efficient software development, for in-vehicle network, voice recognition, VoIP, inverter control, and fingerprint identification. The company will also strengthen the relationship with the partners to provide the best solution portfolio for OEMs.
2) Extend product lineup for built-in flash microcontrollers
NEC Electronics is a global leader in the 0.15-micron process based embedded flash memory with its high-quality products based on its technology expertise as an IDM. The products are based on the synergy created by the compact flash cell technology from Silicon Storage Technology Inc. and the design architecture of NEC Electronics' microcontrollers which enables achieving high reliability, and the company's manufacturing technology. NEC Electronics intends to further increase the reliability of the products and to continue the effort to reduce the cell size of flash memory.
3) Pursue higher performance and lower power consumption
The highest performance V850 core currently available is designed using a 0.15-micron process and realizes clock speeds of 200 MHz and a processing performance of 275 MIPS, which is one of the industry's highest performance for a microcontroller for control systems with the real time response function. As a next step, NEC Electronics plans to launch a next generation microcontroller based on 90-nanometer process technology with 300 MHz clock frequency and 405 MIPS processing performance in 2005.
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About NEC Electronics Corporation
NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) specializes in semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end computing and broadband networking markets, system solutions for the mobile handsets, PC peripherals, automotive and digital consumer markets, and platform solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has 24 subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. (www.am.necel.com) and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH (www.ee.nec.de). For additional information about NEC Electronics worldwide, visit www.necel.com.
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