NEC Personal Products, Ltd — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting FC:61:98 or 00:0D:5E belongs to NEC Personal Products, Ltd (also registered as plain "NEC Personal Products"), a former NEC Group subsidiary. Hardware carrying either prefix is a pre-2011 NEC-brand desktop or notebook PC — the product line this entity made before it stopped existing under this name.

Both prefixes are IEEE MA-L (24-bit OUI) rows registered to the identical Yonezawa, Yamagata address, differing only in whether "Ltd" appears in the organization name. No MA-M or MA-S rows exist under either exact name, so this vendor's footprint is exactly these two blocks.

NEC Personal Products, Ltd was formed in July 2003, merging two 2001-era NEC PC spinoffs (manufacturing and sales). On July 1, 2011 it split: the PC business became NEC Personal Computers, Ltd. — a Lenovo joint venture holding its own separate OUI, F4:6E:24 — while the remaining storage/printer business was renamed NEC Embedded Products, later sold and renamed Meiko Embedded Products in 2022.

Because "NEC Personal Products" as a legal name ended in 2011, no current company website represents it directly. No CVE or security advisory was found tied to this registrant name or to FC:61:98 / 00:0D:5E devices, as of an August 2026 search; NEC's active advisory pipeline (Aterm routers, UNIVERGE phones) belongs to the unrelated NEC Platforms vendor family, not to this PC-hardware registrant.

Device class

NEC-brand desktop and notebook PCs (pre-2011); possibly NEC-brand printers and storage devices, product lines this entity also held before the 2011 split

Registrant name

NEC Personal Products, Ltd (FC:61:98) / NEC Personal Products (00:0D:5E)

Company status

name discontinued July 2011 — do not confuse with the successor company

Successor (PC business)

NEC Personal Computers, Ltd., a separate vendor entry with its own OUI, F4:6E:24

Successor (storage/printer business)

NEC Embedded Products, later renamed Meiko Embedded Products (2022)

IEEE assignment

2 prefixes → NEC Personal Products, Ltd / NEC Personal Products, registered Yonezawa-shi, Yamagata, JP [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry FC6198, the IEEE MA-L registry 000D5E

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); holds exactly 2 IEEE prefixes; no MA-M (the IEEE MA-M registry) or MA-S (the IEEE MA-S registry) rows found under either exact organization name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

HQ / country

6-80, Shimohanazawa 2-chome, Yonezawa-shi, Yamagata 992-8520, JP (registry address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry FC6198

Company status

formed July 2003 (merger of NEC Custom Technica and NEC Custom Max); split July 1, 2011 into NEC Personal Computers, Ltd. (PC business, Lenovo joint venture) and NEC Embedded Products (storage/printer business, later renamed Meiko Embedded Products in 2022) [Likely] — https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF, https://www.meiko-elec.com/meiko-ep/company/history/

Device types

NEC-brand desktop and notebook PCs (pre-2011); possibly printers and storage devices held before the 2011 split [Likely] — https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF

Verified sample prefixes (both MA-L)

FC:61:98 ("NEC Personal Products, Ltd"), 00:0D:5E ("NEC Personal Products") [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry FC6198, the IEEE MA-L registry 000D5E

Related entity (textually distinct registrant, separate vendor slug — not part of this entry)

F4:6E:24 → "NEC Personal Computers, Ltd." (Akihabara UDX, Tokyo), the 2011 PC-business successor [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry F46E24

Security context

no CVE or advisory found tied to "NEC Personal Products" or to FC:61:98 / 00:0D:5E devices, as of an August 2026 search; NEC's active advisory pipeline covers the separate NEC Platforms router/phone family, not this registrant

[Confirmed as sourced negative] — https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/40/NEC.html, https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/product/security_adv/index.html

Registration date

Unknown. IEEE's public the IEEE MA-L registry carries no assignment/registration date field (only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Analyst note

An OUI starting FC:61:98 or 00:0D:5E identifies pre-2011 NEC Personal Products hardware; it does not indicate the current NEC Personal Computers, Ltd., a separate company holding its own OUI (F4:6E:24) [Likely] — the IEEE MA-L registry F46E24, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF