Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. Named Fastest Growing Channel Development Partner by Sun Microsystems
Company Awarded for Outstanding Revenue and Design Win Growth

Melville, NY - September 14, 2005 - Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. (NASDAQ:NUHC), a leading distributor of advanced technology active components and system solutions, recently received Sun Microsystems' Fastest Growing Channel Development Partner (CDP) designation. This achievement, for outstanding revenue and design win growth year over year estimated at 115 percent and 130 percent last year respectively, was presented during Sun's Grow America Tour in New York City.

Nu Horizons has been a Sun original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market distributor for eight years and Sun's U.S. and Canadian OEM-CDP for three years. In addition to distributing Sun's extensive array of systems, components and storage solutions to the OEM market, Nu Horizons also resells Sun's complete software portfolio including the Sun Solaris™ 10 Operating System, Sun Java™ Enterprise System; Sun Java Desktop System; and Sun Studio Development Tools including Sun Java Studio.

"Sun is pleased to present this award designation to Nu Horizons for providing significant value to our OEM customers," said Rich Napolitano, vice president, Sun Microsystems. "We consider Nu Horizons to be an important Sun OEM partner as they possess a customer-centric approach to addressing business and technical issues, while meeting the product life cycle management requirements of our OEM customers."

"This achievement is the result of Nu Horizons' commitment to customer service, partner collaboration and demand creation," said Dan Romanelli, vice president of the Sun Business Unit at Nu Horizons. "We will continue to invest in the tools, processes and people to better meet the needs of our customers. Our collaboration with Sun provides more opportunities and services for our joint customer bases."

About Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
Nu Horizons is a leading global distributor of advanced technology active components and system solutions, including analog, clock and timing devices, communications, computer products, discretes, flat panel display solutions, interface, logic, memory, microcontrollers and microprocessors, opto electronics and power, to a wide variety of commercial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). With sales facilities in forty-three locations across North America and Asia, and logistics centers in centralized locations throughout the globe, Nu Horizons partners with a limited number of best-in-class suppliers to provide in-depth product and solutions expertise to its customers. Information on Nu Horizons and its services is available at http://www.nuhorizons.com.

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include such factors as the level of business and consumer spending for electronic products, the amount of sales of the Company's products, the competitive environment within the electronic component industry, the ability of the Company to continue to expand its operations, the level of costs incurred in connection with the Company's expansion efforts and the financial strength of the Company's customers and suppliers. Investors are also directed to consider other risks and uncertainties discussed in documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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