Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has developed and commercialized a high-strength DI-BSCCO Type HT-NX wire. This wire is reinforced with Ni alloy tapes and undergoes residual axial compression after lamination. The wire has a critical tensile stress of 400 MPa at 77K. The new wire structure successfully reduced the splice resistance without sacrificing the mechanical properties. This wire is highly useful for nuclear magnetic resonance and other high field magnetic applications.