Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Technology: 400 million shipments of Hi's 3D rendering engine Mascotcapsule(R)

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Tokyo - HI CORPORATION(JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007)(Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI") today announced that its 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule reached 400 million shipments worldwide in mobile devices as of the end of March 2008.

MascotCapsule has been widely adopted worldwide by being embedded into the handsets of both overseas and Japanese leading manufacturers and carriers. Over 200 million units have been shipped overseas."We are very pleased that our MascotCapsule has been shipped in more than 400 million mobile devices. Despite a sluggish domestic market in FY 2007, the shipments of MascotCapsule has steadily increased due to the strong growth in overseas markets boosted by the proliferation of mobile handsets in emerging countries. Through close partnership and collaboration with various companies with wide-ranging solutions, we are committed to further promoting the embedding of MascotCapsule into devices other than handsets. Along with this, we will make every effort to propose new usage scenes for MascotCapsule in application segments by developing UIs, services, and contents that will create a pleasurable usability and user experience with 3D graphics," said Kazuo Kawabata, HI's President and CEO.

* MascotCapsule is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan.
[About HI CORPORATION] Please visit our web site(http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html).

[About MascotCapsule] It is an embedded 3D rendering engine that runs on mobile phones and other devices, enabling a real-time 3D graphic processing. MascotCapsule does not rely on any operating system; it can be selected from its seven lineups such as V1 through V4, nano, eruption, and Renderion according to the hardware execution environment; MascotCapsule enables much more enriched 3D expressions than 2D on the limited resources.

For more information, please visit our web site(http://www.mascotcapsule.com/en/index.php).

HI CORPORATIONPam Hung/Mitsutaka Monma, +81-3-3710-2843
Public RelationsMarketing Dept.Fax:+81-3-5773-8660
press@hicorp.co.jp

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