History
| Company activities and awards | Products and Technologies | |
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| 1975 | Nippon Precision Circuits Inc.established 2-inch production line completed |
Development of the world’s first PLL CMOS IC for CB radio |
| 1976 | Development of the world’s first quartz clock LSI for record players | |
| 1978 | Development of CMOS LSI for a clock running at 1V | |
| 1979 | Increased capital to 250 million yen | |
| 1983 | Commercialized multi-layer molybdenum-gate CMOS process
Development of the PLL for 200-MHz CMOS LSI |
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| 1984 | Development of the 121-order linear phase FIR digital filter LSI for CD players | |
| 1987 | Received the Nikkei Excellent Service Award for the digital filter IC for recording and playback | |
| 1989 | 6-inch production line completed Technology Magazine” Award for the high-performance 20-bit 8fs digital filter IC, the “SM5803AP” |
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| 1990 | Development of the 1-bit DAC (Σ DECO) for audio | |
| 1992 | Development of the PLL for pagers running at 1V and 90MHz | |
| 1993 | Development of the asynchronous sample rate converter IC for audio | |
| 1994 | Acquired ISO9001 accreditation Received the “Radio Technology Magazine” Award for the asynchronous sample rate converter for audio, the “SM5844AF” |
Development of the world’s first compression type shock-proof memory controller |
| 1996 | Acquired ISO14001 accreditation | |
| 1997 | Development of the EL driver IC | |
| 1998 | Development of the world’s first digital filter IC for High-resolution audio | |
| 1999 | Acquired QS-9000 accreditation | |
| 2000 | Development of the quick charge control IC for NiMH/NiCd battery
Development of the high-frequency BiCMOS oscillator IC |
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| 2002 | Development of the high-speed target tracking vision chip | |
| 2003 | Crystal oscillator IC won a prize of encouragement from Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation | Development of the radio controlled clock receiver IC
Development of the white LED driver IC and the video filter/buffer IC |
| 2004 | Vision chip won a prize of Technology from The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers | Development of the FSK Tranceiver IC for Specified Low Power Radio Station |
| 2005 | Nippon Precision Circuits Inc.’s equity ownership shifts to Seiko Corporation. | |
| 2006 | Nippon Precision Circuits Inc. changed its company name to Seiko NPC Corporation. Increased capital to 1 billion yen. Acquired ISO/TS16949 certification. |
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| 2007 | Opened Taiwan Liaison Office. | |
| 2008 | Announced thermopile infrared-sensor chip with built-in amplifier on ISSCC 2008. | |
| 2009 | Developed high-precision crystal oscillator IC with frequency adjustment function built-in | |
| 2011 | Started mass production and shipment of compact, high-precision optical encoder | |
| 2012 | Development of the optical sensor IC of ultra-small package, and the voltage controlled crystal oscillator IC of low phase noise | |
| 2013 | Acquired patent for VCXO IC with built-in varicap | |
| 2014 | Development of the magnetic sensor module | |
| 2015 | Acquired patent for multi-band receiver IC for radio clock | Development of the 50dpi magnetic line sensor module |
| 2016 | Development of the COB type infrared sensor module | |
| 2017 | Acquired IATF16949 accreditation |