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HI Corporation to Offer 3D Graphics to Motorola Mobile Phone Platform Customers TOKYO, July 21, 2003--Mobile 3D rendering technology pioneer HI Corporation intends to offer its Mascot Capsule Engine to customers of Motorola's Innovative Convergence(TM) i.250, 2.5G GSM/GPRS handset platform. The Innovative Convergence(TM) i.250 platform simplifies and reduces time to market for GSM/GPRS mobile handset development and manufacturing by integrating hardware, software, development and test environments into a single platform solution. The Mascot Capsule Engine is a compact software engine that enables real-time rendering of 3D graphics applications on mobile handsets. HI Corporation intends to make the Mascot Capsule Engine available to Motorola's Innovative Convergence i.250 customers who plan to enable 3D rendering capability and incorporate 3D graphics applications into consumer devices. "3D graphics opens up a new world of high-value mobile entertainment and information applications for consumers," said Kazuo Kawabata, president of HI Corporation. "HI Corporation is proud to develop compelling 3D graphical solutions for today's mobile devices. The combination of HI's expertise in 3D rendering and Motorola's decades of expertise in the wireless space, provides a powerful wireless solution for original device manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers worldwide." The HI technology is also scheduled to be available to Motorola's i.MX applications processor customers and i.Smart Smartphone reference design customers. "Content will drive the sales of new devices for wireless, entertainment, and information exchange, and innovative 3D graphics capabilities are becoming a necessary feature for all 2.5G phones," said Kenny Cheung, Asia Pacific region general manager for Motorola's Wireless and Mobile Systems Group. "As a world leader in creating such devices and the components and the platforms necessary to create them, we believe 3D capabilities such as these will help move content, devices, and the industry, forward." About Motorola, Inc. Semiconductor Products Sector As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA(TM) system-on-chip solutions for a connected world. Our strong focus on wireless communications and networking enables customers to develop smarter, simpler, safer and synchronized products for the person, work team, home and automobile. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $5.0 billion (USD) in 2002. For more information please visit www.motorola.com/semiconductors. About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, automotive and broadband communications. Sales in 2002 were $27.3 billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important innovations that make things smarter and life better, honored traditions that began when the company was founded 75 years ago this year. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com. About HI Corporation HI Corporation was established in 1989, and is located in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. With total paid-in capital of 289.25 million yen, the company is actively involved in the development of packaged software, systems, and games, as well as seminar instruction to professional engineers. With a mission to present solutions for a "second nature" computing lifestyle, HI Corporation is seeing its results grow steadily as the developer of the Mascot Capsule(R) Engine. This essential software engine enables realtime 3D rendering on the PC desktop, Web pages, embedded devices, handheld game devices, and mobile handsets. Initially adopted by J-PHONE for their mobile handsets, Mascot Capsule(R) Engine was the recipient of the 2001 Tokyo Venture Technology Grand Prize. Mascot Capsule(R) Engine is available for licensing to countless platforms for use in a myriad of application products. For more information, go to: http://www.hicorp.co.jp. Mascot Capsule(R) is a registered trademark of HI Corporation. MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners