Japan's NEC is in talks with China's Lenovo about a joint venture in personal computers, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday.

The Nikkei business daily said earlier that the two were negotiating a deal under which Lenovo would likely take a controlling stake in NEC's personal computer unit. But the sources said it was not clear what form the joint venture might take.

(Reporting by Reiji Murai and Kentaro Hamada; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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