Word: nec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directly across the Mississippi River in St. Paul, is the company from which Cray split off in 1972: Control Data Corp. CDC, which in 1983 created a supercomputer subsidiary called ETA Systems, is holding steady with a 12.7% market share. Coming up quickly is a trio of Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu -- that entered the supercomputer race in 1983 and has since captured 23% of the world market...
Authorization for the 14-member NEC, originally championed by New York Governor Mario Cuomo, was tacked to the mammoth budget bill passed by Congress in December. Six members were appointed by the Democratic congressional leaders, four by their Republican counterparts and two by President Reagan; two more will be appointed in November by the President-elect. The board was given a deadline of March 1, 1989, and $1 million to produce a politically acceptable fiscal blueprint for the next Administration and Congress...
...nothing else, the NEC's members carry enormous reputations into their deliberations. But some old Washington hands fear that those reputations -- and the immodesty that often comes with them -- may cause more problems than partisan differences may cause. "It will be difficult," admitted one Senate staffer, "to find a room big enough for all those egos." Lewis and Strauss, who were selected co-chairmen during the commission's initial meeting in Washington last week, will have the job of encouraging the group to work together...
...displaying multiple channels, the circuits can freeze frames or zoom in for close-ups. Digital VCRs can repeat sequences in slow motion or fast-forward without the distortion that mars conventional machines. Standard broadcast images can also be improved, up to a point. One video recorder made by NEC reduces interference by using microprocessors to compare successive image frames. By subtracting random elements that appear on one frame but not the other, the circuitry removes snow before it shows up on the screen...
...Four: IBM (which had a 26% slice of last year's market), Apple (which had 8%), Tandy (5%) and Compaq (3%). The remaining 58% of the world market has been carved up by about 150 other firms, including AT& T, Zenith and Commodore in the U.S., Japanese firms like NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Daewoo and Hyundai. Although the growth of IBM's sales has been inhibited by the hordes of competitors, Apple, Tandy and Compaq have seen sales, earnings or stock prices surge in recent weeks...