Recently NEC has once again seen the world's attention, NEC will purchase the British NPS, which is known as the second largest purchase case in the history of NEC, it is reported that it is expected to help NEC attack the face identification service market.
Nowadays, with the rise of global information security and other awareness, NEC, which has come back with facial authentication technology, has re-emerged in the world's attention stage. NEC spent about 71 billion yen (about 635 million US dollars) to acquire UK financial services company NPS (Northgate Public Services) to further expand its business in the security sector. The reporter reported that this case is the second largest purchase case in the history of NEC.
NPS's current annual turnover is about 25 billion yen, of which more than 80% of the turnover is based on government units and police agencies. It not only helps NEC to break into the local market in the UK, but even has a plus effect on NEC's desire to promote facial authentication technology to other government agencies.
The acquisition amounted to 71 billion yen, which is the second largest overseas corporate investment case (including capital contribution and financing) for NEC. It was purchased in the mid-1990s for 200 billion yen and purchased by American PC manufacturer Packard Bell. The case.
In fact, compared with the mid-1990s, today's NEC Group has almost half of its annual turnover, and its operating profit has slipped to 40 billion yen. At a time when the former glory has not yet fully revived, NEC is still taking a huge amount of acquisitions, and it is obvious that it has regarded the security and crime prevention business as the most important career axis.
According to the Nikkei, NEC will focus on image recognition based on facial authentication technology and expansion services centered on artificial intelligence (AI) technology as the main development direction. Compared with the PC or semiconductor business that has caused NEC to lose its price competition in the past, President Shinno said that face-certified businesses are not easy to fall into price competition, and the gross profit margin is higher than that of the past.
However, Xinye is also frank, and the old problem of NEC is that it has high technical power, but it cannot arbitrage its business. Whether buying NPS this time will help NEC attack the city in overseas markets, which is quite worth looking forward to.
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