NEC and Hortonworks to co-develop high performance analytics platform for Big Data with SX-Aurora TSUBASA
(WorldNews Japan)

Tokyo, October 15, 2018 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Hortonworks, Inc. (Hortonworks®) today announced plans for the co-development of a high performance Big Data analytics platform for AI integrating the `SX-Aurora TSUBASA` vector engine, a new hardware platform by NEC to accelerate computing using vectorization. This new platform, combined with NEC`s Big Data platform `Data Platform for Hadoop,` significantly improves processing performance and scalability to deliver better business results for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics. Prior to this co-development, NEC and Hortonworks announced an expansion of their strategic partnership in September,...