NEC Electronics Announces Executive Personnel Changes

NEC Electronics Corporation today announced the following changes in its Board of Directors and Board of Corporate Auditors, effective June 25, 2004.

Joining the Board of Directors
Hideto Goto                Senior Vice President*
Toshio Nakajima         President, NEC Electronics America, Inc.*

Resigning from the Board of Directors
Kyoji Yamamoto          Executive Vice President*
                                (Plans to assume advisory role after resigning from the Board)

Joining the Board of Corporate Auditors
Norio Tanoue              Executive Advisor, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.*
Keiji Suzuki                Senior Vice President*
Shigeo Matsumoto      Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corporation*

Resigning from the Board of Corporate Auditors
Jiro Takashima           (Plans to assume advisory role after resigning from the Board)
Akio Kurosaka            (Plans to assume advisory role after resigning from the Board)
Yasuo Matoi

* Indicates position currently held.

Brief biographies for the five executives joining NEC Electronics’ Board of Directors and Board of Corporate Auditors are as follows:

Hideto Goto
2002        Senior Vice President, NEC Electronics
               Senior Vice President, NEC Electron Device
1998        Managing Director, NEC Semiconductors (UK) Ltd.
1970        Joined NEC Corp.
               B.S. Tokyo University, Physical Engineering Department

Toshio Nakajima
2002        President and CEO, NEC Electronics America, Inc.
2001        President and CEO, NEC Electronics (now NEC Electronics America, Inc.)
2000        General Manager, First System LSI Division, NEC Electron Device
1996        General Manager, System Micro Division, NEC Corp.
1970        Joined NEC Corp.
               B.S. Kyoto University, 2nd Electrical Engineering Department

Norio Tanoue
2003        Executive Advisor, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.
2000        President, NEC Technologies, Inc. (now NEC Solutions (America), Inc.)
1996        Vice Chairman, Packard Bell NEC, Inc.
1995        Vice President, NEC Corp.
1988        General Manager, Overseas Computer Business Promotion Division, NEC Corp.
1965        Joined NEC Corp.
               B.S. Kyoto University, Economics Department

Keiji Suzuki
2002        Senior Vice President, NEC Electronics
2000        General Manager, System ULSI Development Division, NEC Electron Device
1994        General Manager, System LSI Development Promotion Division, NEC Corp.
1970        Joined NEC Corp.
                M.S. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department

Shigeo Matsumoto
2000        Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corp.
1999        Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corp.
1996        Senior Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corp.
1991        Associate Senior Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corp.
1990        General Manager, 1st Controller Division, NEC Corp.
1963        Joined NEC Corp.
               B.S. Tokyo University, Economics Department

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