NEW MEDIA BEEFS UP PRODUCTION CAPACITY TO MEET INCREASED VOLUME
REQUIREMENTS AND GROWING PRODUCT COMPLEXITY

Company Adds Two New Robotic Surface Mount Lines

IRVINE, Calif., March 9, 1995 -- New Media, a leading developer and
manufacturer of portable computing solutions, today announced that it has
once again expanded the production capabilities of its manufacturing
facility. The company has added two new vision-assisted robotic surface
mount production lines to meet increased PC Card product demands and
growing complexity.

The addition of the new production lines enables New Media to increase
capacity to over 20,000 cards per month -- on a single eight-hour shift.
According to Carl Perkins, New Media's president, the increase in capacity
is critical to meeting the increased market demand for the company's
products. "We're growing right along with the booming portable computing
marketplace," he said.

According to AP Research, a Cupertino, Calif.-based research firm tracking
the portable computing marketplace, 50 million PC Cards are expected to
ship in 1997, up from three million in 1993. New Media supplies a complete
line of PC Cards, including modems, LAN adapters, sound, multimedia, VGA
and SCSI cards as well as memory products, to the growing industry.

In addition to assisting New Media meet the increased demands for its
products, the added equipment will also enable the company to manufacture
the ever-increasingly complex PC Cards. The available space on the circuit
board (PCB) of a PC Card is less than five-square-inches per side (top and
bottom). Yesterday's PC Cards typically demanded fewer than fifty
components mounted on a single side of the PCB. Today, the advanced
features call for cards with three times as many parts per side.

"Our Multimedia Combo card, a combination 16-bit stereo card and
high-performance SCSI adapter, includes over 100 parts on a single side
with additional components on the backside of the PCB," explained
Perkins.

Perkins added that the number of fine-pitch ICs that must be surface
mounted via vision-assisted robotic placements has also risen. "Thus, the
time to manufacture a single PC Card, in many cases, has increased by a
factor of four," he stated. "From this point forward, complexity will
continue to increase. Couple this with the price-tag for capital
equipment, and only those manufacturers with high-yields will survive in
this growing market."

Since its inception three years ago, New Media has remained committed to
manufacturing its products in the United States to meet the stringent
demand schedules of its customers. As part of this commitment, New Media
is dedicated to saving the environment. The company utilizes a risky and
difficult "no-clean" solder process, requiring no solvent or aqueous wash
after the solder is cured. There are no drains in the company's
manufacturing facility and no effluents discharged.

"Today, we are one of very few environmentally pure manufacturing
facilities of PC Cards, " summed up Perkins.

New Media Corporation, a $60 million manufacturer headquartered in Irvine,
Calif., is the leading designer and developer of PC Cards for laptop,
subnotebook and palmtop computers. New Media has quickly built a
reputation for delivering innovative, high-quality portable computing
solutions for OEMs, resellers and end-users. The three-year-old company is
noted for its PCMCIA firsts. New Media shipped the first FCC Class B, Type
I Ethernet LAN card, the first PC compatible modem card for palmtop
computers, the first PC to SCSI adapter, the first PC 16-bit stereo sound
card, the first multi-function multimedia sound and SCSI card, and created
the industry's first true PC plug-and-play device drivers.

New Media Corp
Irvine Spectrum
One Technology, Building A
Irvine, CA 92718
714-453-0100,  800-453-0550,  fax 714-453-0114

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