INGRAM ALLIANCE AND ACER AMERICA OFFER TRAVELMATE AND EXTENSA PRODUCT LINES

SANTA ANA, Calif., May 15, 1997
Ingram Alliance, a subsidiary of Ingram Micro Inc., announced today that it has signed an agreement with Acer America Corp. to offer its newly acquired Texas Instruments. TravelMate. and Extensa mobile-computing product lines throughout the United States. Acer recently acquired Texas Instruments Inc.'s mobile-computing division, which includes the TI. TravelMate and Extensa product lines*.

Ingram Alliance now is authorized to sell Texas Instruments TravelMate notebooks, which are ideal for sales-force automation, high-end multimedia and technical support applications, and the Extensa series of high-performance mobile computers, which feature PCI bus architecture and 166-MHz Pentium processors in an easy-to-carry mobile package.

"We are pleased to add Texas Instruments' mobile-computing products through Acer America to our top-tier offering," said Doug Antone, president of Ingram Alliance. "Being the largest national distributor, we can offer our reseller and manufacturer partners precise program execution, value-added services, financial strength, easily accessible information and a top-notch sales team."

"Ingram Alliance is an excellent avenue for Acer America to provide powerful TI TravelMate and Extensa mobile-computing solutions to corporate end users," said Steve Lair, senior vice president of sales and marketing, commercial systems for Acer America. "The corporate business is our focus, and we are extremely excited about our selling partnership with Ingram Alliance."

In addition to Acer America, Ingram Alliance supplies microcomputer products to its more than 1,000 resellers from a variety of manufacturers, including Apple Computer, AST Computer, Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC and Toshiba America Information Systems.

Acer America Corp., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is a member of the Acer Group. Founded in 1976 in Taiwan, the Acer Group has become one of the world's largest microcomputer manufacturers and one of the world's top OEM manufacturers. A global company with facilities in 38 countries, Acer's research and development, engineering, manufacturing and marketing operations in the United States and Canada are handled by Acer America Corp. In September 1990, Acer acquired Altos Computer Systems, one of the top manufacturers of multiuser and networked UNIX computer systems for commercial markets. In February 1997, Acer America acquired Texas Instruments Inc.'s mobile computing business, including the award-winning TravelMate and Extensa notebook lines, making Acer the fourth leading notebook manufacturer in the United States.

Ingram Alliance was started in 1994 by Ingram Micro Inc. [format %c {91}]NYSE:IM[format %c {93}], the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, with 1996 sales of more than $12 billion, to launch Ingram Micro. into the specialized master reseller market. Today, Ingram Alliance offers access to some of the industry's leading hardware manufacturers at competitive prices. Both companies are headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif.

* Products of Acer America Corporation, developed with Texas Instruments.

Texas Instruments and TI are registered trademarks of Texas Instruments Inc. Acer, Extensa and TravelMate are registered trademarks of Acer Inc.

) 1997 Ingram Micro Inc. All rights reserved. Ingram Micro and Ingram Alliance are registered trademarks of Ingram Micro Inc.

Contact:

Kirsten Frosh
Media Relations
Ingram Micro, Inc.
(714) 566-1000, ext. 23364