NEC (Nippon Electric Company) was Japan’s first company to design their own microprocessor. NEC developed the NEC UPD751, a 4-bit microprocessor. NEC developed many other microprocessors and was an important second source supplied of Motorola 6800 and Zilog Z80 processors.
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General General Information The NEC uPD751 (also known as the uCom-4) is the 1st Japanese one chip microprocessor.In early 1971, SHARP requested NEC to manufacture a very small computer for them, by this request they were requesting NEC to create a microprocessor.Nippon Coca-Cola was the “prime-mover” in the sequence of events. Nippon Coca-Cola decided to …