Tokyo, April 8, 2005 --- NEC Corporation ("NEC") today announced that it has received orders for two of its vector supercomputers, the "SX-8/8A" (128GFLOPS peak vector performance) and "SX-6/8A" (64 GFLOPS peak vector performance), from Suzuki Motor Corporation. (GFLOPS: one billion floating-point operations per second)

Suzuki Motor Corporation has been utilizing supercomputers for development of automobile performance and simulation analysis through computer aided engineering ("CAE") since 1987. The company is conducting more and more analyses that require large-scale simulation models for performance improvement, weight reduction, safety improvement, and reduction of the development period. To respond to these needs, Suzuki Motor Corporation introduced two vector supercomputers of the "SX Series," to ensure further reduction of large-scale simulations in combination with 3D computer aided design ("CAD".) This has resulted in the achievement of three times improved performance through the new "SX-8" and "SX-6" as compared with the prior systems.

Since October 2004, NEC has been delivering the SX Series model "SX-8," the world's most powerful vector supercomputer, which delivers a peak vector performance of 65 TFLOPS (in the case of SX-8/4096M512). With its dedicated CPUs, large-scale memory, and high data transfer rate between memory and CPUs, it achieves a higher speed of computation as the simulation models that it handles become larger. The SX-8 realizes extremely high performance particularly in simulation analyses of various automotive performances, meteorological forecasting, and environmental simulations, as compared with scalar computers with a number of general-purpose CPUs. (TFLOPS: one trillion floating-point operations per second) NEC believes that the higher computational capacity of "SX-8" and "SX-6" as compared with the latest scalar computers was highly factored in the customer's product selection decision, as well as the user-friendly parallelization of both supercomputers enabled by shared memory architecture.

NEC considers this order to be a great milestone and intends to further expand the "SX Series" toward greater use within the automobile industry.

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