NEC Delivers New Express5800 Fault Tolerant Servers Featuring Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- NEC Corporation of America ("NEC") today announced the general availability of NEC's new Fault Tolerant (ft) Series servers. Launched in March 2006, the NEC Express5800/320Fc-MR Series server features up to two Quad-Core Intel([R]) Xeon([R]) processors 5300 Series. In addition, NEC Corporation of America is also announcing the NEC Express5800/320Fc-LR Series server with one- or two-socket Dual-Core Intel([R]) Xeon([R]) processors 5100 Series. The NEC Express5800/320Fc is the first product developed jointly by NEC Corporation and Stratus Technologies, Inc. as a result of their collaboration agreement signed November 2005.

Both versions of the NEC Express5800/320Fc Series server are available in North America today.

The NEC Express5800/320Fc Series servers feature enhanced versions of NEC's GeminiEngine([TM]) chipset to ensure lockstep processing in redundant components with no impact to performance. The NEC Express5800/320Fc-MR and LR Series servers have the same memory capacity, bandwidth and HDD options. These new servers deliver:

* 200 percent performance gain over third-generation Dual-Core models (performance metric specific to the Quad-Core version);

* fast front-side bus with up to 66 percent greater CPU Input/Output (I/O);