Achievements
Achievements of NEC include:
- the discovery of single-walled carbon nanotubes by Sumio Iijima
- the invention of the widely used MUX-scan design for test methodology (contrast with the IBM-developed level-sensitive scan design methodology)
- the world's first demonstration of the one-qubit rotation gate in solid state devices.
As of 2009 NEC ranked consistently in the top four companies over the previous five years for the number of U.S. patents issued, averaging 1764 each year.
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