In October 1986, NEC formed a joint venture with Honeywell, HNSX Supercomputers, to sell NEC's supercomputers in the United States and Canada.[6] In October 1989, Honeywell agreed to sell its share in HNSX Supercomputers to NEC.[7]
In April 1997 HNSX Supercomputers and Fujitsu were jointly found guilty of dumping by bidding below cost in order to sell a supercomputer to the National Center for Atmospheric Research.[8] In September 1997 the United States International Trade Commission found that Cray had been financially injured by the pricing practices of HNSX Supercomputers and Fujitsu.[9] Cray later took over the operations of HNSX, and acquired rights to sell NEC supercomputers in the US, in February 2001.[10]
NEC established its US research lab, NEC Research Institute in South Brunswick, Princeton, New Jersey in 1988.[11][12]
In November 1989, NEC announced that it would merge NEC Home Electronics (USA) with NEC Information Systems, Inc. to form NEC Technologies, Inc.[13]
NEC Laboratories America was created in November 2002 through the merger of NEC Research Institute and NEC USA's Computer and Communications Research Laboratory.[14] NEC Laboratories succeeded in sending over 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre in April 2011, establishing a new world record.[15]
On April 1, 2002, NEC announced that NEC Technologies, Inc. would be merged with NEC Computers Inc. and NEC Systems, Inc. to form NEC Solutions (America), Inc.[16]
NEC Corporation of America was formed on July 1, 2006, from the combined operations of NEC America, NEC Solutions (America) and NEC USA.[2]
Subsidiaries of NEC Corporation of America include:[17]
NEC Corporation of America's products and services include:[18]
