HI CORPORATION 3D Rendering Engine MascotCapsule Shipments Exceeds 500 Million Worldwide

-- Overseas Shipments Exceed 300 Million Units! --
TOKYO--(Business Wire)--
HI CORPORATION (JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007)(Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo;
President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI") today announced that the
cumulative shipments of MascotCapsule hit over 500 million units worldwide as of
the end of March 2009.

MascotCapsule is a 3D graphic rendering engine that has acquired the leading
share in Japan. Since it enabled the rendering of 3D graphics on mobile phones
in 2001, MascotCapsule has been embedded into numerous mobile phones around the
world.

Overseas, MascotCapsule has been widely adopted by carriers and leading
manufacturers, and its cumulative worldwide shipments exceeded 300 million units
as of December 2008.

"We are very pleased that our MascotCapsule has been shipped in more than 500
million mobile devices. Despite being hit by the global recession these days,
the shipments have steadily increased due to the proliferation of mobile
handsets in emerging countries in FY 2008. We will continue our efforts to set a
new record high, embedding MascotCapsule into 3D user interfaces for home
electronic devices and car navigation systems and supporting open platforms that
are growing in the mobile phone market. Along with this, we are committed to
promoting MascotCapsule in the avatar business that we started in the current
fiscal term as well as in the service application business such as games and
communities using our experiences," said Kazuo Kawabata, President and CEO of HI
CORPORATION.

[About MascotCapsule]

MascotCapsule is an embedded 3D rendering engine that runs on a wide variety of
devices including mobile phones and enables applications to execute real-time 3D
graphic processing. It does not rely on any operating system or platforms; 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 limited resources.

For more information, visit our Web site at
http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/product/index.html.

*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).

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