Press Release

HI CORP 3D Rendering Engine MascotCapsule® equipped terminals,
Surpasses Global Accumulated Total of 100 million Units

HI CORPORATION (Headquarter: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; president and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI") announced today that global accumulated total of the portable terminals equipped with 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule® has surpassed 100 million units.

MascotCapsule® is a 3D rendering engine which enables development of 3D application operated on portable terminals to simplify, and to support the different environments of CPUs and other portable terminals, currently (end of December 2005) have developed 4 different products (V1-V4). Domestic four carriers, and widely accepted by domestic and overseas carriers or for the terminals of carriers across US, Europe, Korea, China and more. Also supplied to domestic manufacturers of portable terminals and in Global manufactures in US, Europe, Korea and more by licensed agreement and numerous 3D games of MascotCapsule® supported applications are provided.
A ratio of the terminal equipped units domestic to overseas are 2:1

"Extremely pleased with surpassing of 100 million units of terminals equipped with our 3D rendering engine" HI CORPORATION president and CEO Kazuo Kawabata said, with regarding of surpassing 100 milion units equipped with the core product MascotCapsule®. "This may be a result of to be on the side of contents developers, to enhance and improve the usability and at the same time the effort of pioneering the market. As for the future, we will continue to produce unique products and services step ahead of others, and take part in evolution of Human-Interface which will result and will provide enriched computing life styles".

Together with HI, involved with the MascotCapsule®'s license sales and deployment of MascotCapsule® supported 3D contents, BANDAI NETWORKS CO., LTD. Toyoshi Takahashi Senior Executive states, "I am glad to hear MascotCapusule® equipped terminals surpassing worldwide of 100 million units, and soon enough will come a time when 3D rendering engine equipped in portable terminals will become standardized, and more people worldwide will enjoy 3D contents and their quality of live be enriched", " Strongly hope for HI to continue to lead the world in 3D rendering engine for the future to come".

HI will continue an effort of promoting and deploying MascotCapsule® so it will soon become a De Facto Standard for the world of 3D rendering engine.