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Microcomputer Business Unit


Microcomputer Sales

Sales from the Microcomputer Business Unit comprised approximately 28% of semiconductor sales in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. Main businesses include general-purpose microcontrollers and microcontrollers for automotive applications.

In general-purpose microcontrollers, the unit focuses on flash microcontrollers which customers can readily reprogram as needed. Already, these products are found in a wide range of applications, including home electronics, AV equipment, and industrial machinery.

As for automotive microcontrollers, the unit boasts a high market share of products for body control and car audio applications. Many customers have also given high marks to the unit's microcontrollers for dashboard and safety applications.

NEC Electronics is also actively pursuing multi-core microcontrollers. These products, featuring both high performance and low power consumption, are expected to become a key technology in years to come. Leveraging a wide product lineup and stable supply, the unit will deliver microcontrollers that support customer competitiveness, while promoting the development of tomorrow's leading products.


Business Highlights

  • Automotive microcontrollers
    NEC Electronics views automobiles as a business sector in focus. Sales growth in automotive microcontrollers enabled NEC Electronics to gain the world's leading share* in the 32-bit microcontroller market.
    *Source: Gartner, March 2008, GJ08234
  • All Flash microcontrollers
    NEC Electronics leads the industry in All Flash microcontrollers, in which embedded ROM is completely replaced with flash memory.
  • Additional floor space at the Oita Plant
    To boost production of automotive microcontrollers, a key business area, NEC Electronics decided to expand the building and clean room facilities at its Oita Plant, which serves as an assembly site for NEC Semiconductors Kyushu Yamaguchi.
  • NaviEngine
    NEC Electronics newly developed the NaviEngine, a semiconductor for car navigation systems. The use of Symmetrical Multicore Processor (SMP) technology enables NaviEngine to achieve processing performance of 1,920 MIPS, one of the highest levels in the industry.
    *MIPS: 1 MIPS represents a processing capacity of 1 million commands per second.

NaviEngine


NaviEngine
NaviEngine