Nu Horizons Electronics to Distribute Galileo Technology BroadBand Communications Products in North America

SAN JOSE, CA and MELVILLE, NEW YORK – (MARCH 13, 2000) – Galileo Technology (Nasdaq: GALT) and Nu Horizons Electronics today announced the signing of an agreement through which Nu Horizons becomes an authorized distributor for Galileo’s high performance, data communications controllers and WAN interface devices.

According to Dave Bowers, Sr. Vice President of Marketing for Nu Horizons, “We are excited about our new relationship with Galileo as it supports our vision of becoming the lead semiconductor distributor in supporting the rapidly growing Broadband Communications market. Bowers continues, “Galileo is an absolute leader in the rapidly growing converged voice/data communications markets and their GalNet Ò-II, GalNet-2+, GalNet-3 and HorizonTM product families in particular open a lot of doors for us. We have assigned an engineering task force to become Galileo experts to provide a high level of engineering support in all major markets.”

John Mein, vice president of Sales for Galileo Technology said, “When we looked to add another distributor to support our market development and sales efforts, Nu Horizons emerged as the obvious choice. We believe that their focused supplier line offering and strong customer engineering support complement us well and expect that the relationship will be important to both of our companies.”

Galileo Technology, a market leader in Communication Systems on SiliconTM, is one of the semiconductor industry's fastest growing suppliers of complex, high-performance, integrated circuit devices. Galileo's products include advanced communication switch controllers, high-performance system controllers for RISC processors and WAN communication controllers. Galileo's products form the heart of many advanced data communications systems built by leading OEMs, such as 3Com, Accton, Alcatel, Cabletron Systems, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks.

Galileo employs more than 275 people worldwide with business headquarters in San Jose, California and R&D headquarters in Moshav Manof, Israel.

Nu Horizons Electronics is a leading distributor of high technology active components including memory chips, microprocessors, digital and linear circuits, diodes and transistors to a wide variety of commercial original equipment manufacturers. Nu Horizons specializes in semiconductors, and offers both commodity and high technology products throughout the United States. For additional information on Nu Horizons products and services visit our web site at www.nuhorizons.com.