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HI's 3D Rendering Engine MascotCapsule(R) Exceeds 300 Million Shipments in Mobile Devices Worldwide
TOKYO, October 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Shipments of Embedded Devices Other than Cellular Phones Also Exceed 3 Million Units! HI Corporation (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI") (Jasdaq: 3846) announced today that its 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule(R) reached 300 million shipments (Note 1) worldwide in mobile devices such as cellular phones. MascotCapsule has been widely adopted worldwide by being embedded into the handsets of four of the top five overseas manufacturers. The engine was shipped in a record number of embedded devices other than cellular phones, such as home appliances like video camcorders, reaching 3 million devices as of September 2007. "We are very excited that our flagship product MascotCapsule has been shipped in more than 300 million mobile devices. With HI and group businesses uniting as one in the future, we pledge every effort to commit new undertakings, such as cooperation with chip vendors as well as aggressively promoting MascotCapsule for cellular phones and home appliances domestically and overseas," said Kazuo Kawabata, HI's President and CEO. (Note 1) It is confirmed that the units of 300 million shipments were counted through the end of June 2007, including a part of shipments by domestic carriers and manufacturers from July to September (the shipments overseas and the other part of domestic carriers and manufacturers has not been counted as of October 25th, 2007). MascotCapsule is a registered trademark of HI Corporation in Japan. About MascotCapsule MascotCapsule is an embedded 3D rendering engine that runs on a wide variety of devices including cell phones and enables applications to execute real-time 3D graphic processing. It is independent from the OS and users can choose from six types (V1 - V4, nano released this spring, and the latest -- eruption) according to their hardware execution environment. It renders 3D expressions that are far richer than 2D on a limited resource. About HI Corporation For more information, please visit our web site: http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html Contact: HI CORPORATION Marketing Division: Pam Hung, Mitsutaka Monma Tel: +81-3-3710-9376 Email: press@hicorp.co.jp Web site: http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html
