Press Release
*****For immediate use July 11th, 2000

NEC to Maintain 128Mb Rambus DRAM Production Plans

NEC's Rambus DRAM plans for production of 1 million 128Mb density Direct Rambus DRAM devices per month are unchanged, while it has also launched production of the industry's first validated 288Mb Direct Rambus DRAM devices from June in a 0.18-micron process for production of 150,000 units per month by September. Production of the 288Mb RDRAM devices will be expanded to 750,000 units per month by December 2000 and then to 1.25 million units per month by March 2001.

The late emergence of the personal computer market for these memory devices, however, and the strong demand for high density, ECC (error correction code) RDRAMs from vendors of high-end PC workstations and servers, has meant NEC is shifting production to meet these changing market needs.

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) (FTSE: 6701q.l) is a leading provider of Internet solutions, dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its customers in the key computer, network and electron device fields through its three market-focused in-house companies: NEC Solutions, NEC Networks and NEC Electron Devices. NEC Corporation, with its in-house companies, employs more than 150,000 people worldwide and saw net sales of 4,991 billion Yen (approx. US$48 billion) in fiscal year 1999-2000. For further information, please visit the NEC home page at:http://www.nec-global.com

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