Editing NEC (section)

===1945 to 1980===
After the war, production was slowly returned to civilian use. NEC re-opened its major plants by the end of January 1946.<ref name="fundinguniverse.com">{{Cite web|title=History of NEC Corporation – FundingUniverse|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/nec-corporation-history/|access-date=2020-08-27|website=www.fundinguniverse.com}}</ref> NEC began transistor research and development in 1950. It started exporting radio-broadcast equipment to Korea under the first major postwar contract in 1951. NEC received the [[Deming Prize]] for excellence in quality control in 1952. Computer research and development began in 1954. NEC produced the first [[crossbar switch]]ing system in Japan. It was installed at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (currently [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation]]; NTT) in 1956. NEC began joint research and development with NTT of electronic switching systems the same year. NEC established Taiwan Telecommunication Company as their first postwar overseas joint venture in 1958. They completed the NEAC-1101 and NEAC-1102 computers in the same year. In September 1958, NEC built their first fully transistorized computer, the NEAC-2201, with parts made solely in Japan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEAC-2201-Computer Museum|url=http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/dawn/0018.html|access-date=2020-08-27|website=museum.ipsj.or.jp}}</ref> One year later, they demonstrated it at the UNESCO AUTOMATH show in Paris. The company began integrated circuit research and development in 1960. In 1963 NEC started trading as American Depositary Receipts, with ten million shares being sold in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|last=SEC|title=Nec Corp 2007 Foreign Issuer Report 6-K|url=https://sec.report/Document/0000950142-07-000325/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=SEC.report|language=en|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003033646/https://sec.report/Document/0000950142-07-000325/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nippon Electric New York (now NEC America Inc.) was incorporated in the same year.<ref name="fundinguniverse.com"/>

[[File:NEC logo 1963.svg|thumb|The NEC logo used from 1963 to 1992<ref>NEC 1984, p. 46.</ref>]]

NEC supplied KDD with submarine cable systems for laying in the Pacific Ocean in 1964. They supplied short-haul 24 channel PCM carrier transmission equipment to NTT in 1965. NEC de Mexico, S. A. de C. V., NEC do Brasil, S. A., NEC Australia Pty. Ltd. were established between 1968 and 1969. NEC supplied Comsat Corporation with the SPADE satellite communications system in 1971. In 1972, Switzerland ordered a NEC satellite communications earth station. The same year, a small transportable satellite communications earth station was set up in China. Shares of NEC common stock were listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1973. NEC also designed an automated broadcasting system for the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in the same year. NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH was also established. In 1974, the ACOS series computer was introduced. The New Central Research Laboratories were completed in 1975. In 1977, Japan's National Space Development Agency launched the NEC [[geostationary meteorological satellite]], named [[Himawari (satellite)|Himawari]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=GMS - eoPortal Directory - Satellite Missions|url=https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/gms|access-date=2020-08-21|website=directory.eoportal.org}}</ref>

During this period NEC introduced the concept of "C&C", the integration of computers and communications. NEC America Inc. opened a plant in [[Dallas, Texas]] to manufacture [[PABX]] and telephone systems in 1978. They also acquired Electronic Arrays, Inc. of [[California]] the same year to start semiconductor chip production in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEC Corporation {{!}} Japanese corporation|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/NEC-Corporation|access-date=2020-08-21|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>