NEC Electronics Corporation Receives Intel’s Prestigious Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award

KAWASAKI, KANAGAWA, Japan, April 12, 2006, NEC Electronics Corporation was named a recipient of Intel Corporation’s prestigious 2005 Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award, Intel’s highest honor for its suppliers, for outstanding commitment to quality and performance by suppliers that provide products and services deemed essential to Intel’s success. The company was awarded for its efforts in supplying Intel with pseudo SRAM, LPSRAM, and ASICs. NEC Electronics Corporation and 11 additional SCQI award winners were honored at a celebration in Burlingame, California on March 21.

“NEC Electronics is honored to receive the prestigious SCQI award from Intel for a third time,” said Toshio Nakajima, president and CEO, NEC Electronics Corporation. “This ‘best of the best’ award program is an encouragement for NEC Electronics to strive for continual improvement in quality of product and customer service, and the SCQI award is the testimony to that effort.”

“Congratulations to NEC Electronics for earning the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award,” said Suresh Sachdev, Director, Component Materials Organization, Intel Corporation. “NEC Electronics continues to provide Intel with high quality PSRAM and has consistently delivered exceptional support contributing greatly to our growing SCSP businesses. NEC Electronics’ commitment to excellence and continuous improvement has positioned them as a highly valued supplier to Intel and a great supporter to our Leap Ahead strategy. We look forward to working with NEC Electronics in 2006 on additional challenging and strategic initiatives and are confident in their continued excellent support.”

The SCQI awards are part of Intel’s Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement process, which encourages Intel’s key suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous improvement. To qualify for SCQI status, suppliers must score at least 95 percent on a report card that assesses performance and ability to meet cost, quality, availability, delivery, technology and responsiveness goals. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at http://supplier.intel.com/quality.

Intel also recognized SCQI award winners on March 21, 2006, with an advertisement in the U.S., Europe and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal.


About NEC Electronics

NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) specializes in semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end computing and broadband networking markets, system solutions for the mobile handsets, PC peripherals, automotive and digital consumer markets, and multi-market solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. (www.am.necel.com) and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH (www.eu.necel.com). For additional information about NEC Electronics worldwide, visit www.necel.com.


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