[2] NEC America Inc, originally known as Nippon Electric New York, was incorporated in 1963.

[6] In October 1989, Honeywell agreed to sell its share in HNSX Supercomputers to NEC.

[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.

[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.