TOKYO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --

HI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata; hereinafter "HI")(JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007) announced today that HI's 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule eruption (hereinafter "eruption") has been adopted by Capcom Co., Ltd. for their game application "Resident Evil(R) 4: iPad edition" (URL: http://www.capcom.co.jp/iphone/re4/index.html) for iPad. The eruption has already been adopted for BREW(R), iPhone(R), iPod(R) touch, and Zeebo(TM)(*1) for Resident Evil 4.

Supporting the industry-standard OpenGL(R) ES , eruption enables high-speed rendering of 3D graphics by making the best use of iPad's 3D graphics accelerator, allowing beautiful, sensational 3D animation with high resolution on iPad.

As the content developed using MascotCapsule does not depend on an equipment or operating system, it is possible to quickly port models and animation data into other devices. Due to this, "Resident Evil 4" developed for iPhone and iPod touch using eruption has been successfully ported into iPad.

HI is committed to establishing further efforts of expanding MascotCapsule in order to contribute to the global development of popular games and content.

[About eruption]

An OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1 compliant 3D engine that has achieved a dramatically improved processing speed compared to the existing 3D rendering engines. The eruption enables game developers and content developers to fully leverage the performance of 3D hardware accelerators offering increased speed as well as developing content with rich expression at a high-frame rate.

For details and specifications for eruption, please visit our web site at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/product/eruption.html.

*1 Zeebo
A game console using mobile 3G networks developed for newly emerging countries. Zeebo game titles are downloadable from ZeeboNet(TM) through mobile 3G networks. For more information, visit Zeebo's website at http://www.zeebo.com.br.

*iPad , iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in U.S. or other countries.

*MascotCapsule(R) is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan.

*Other company names and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of respective companies.

[About HI CORPORATION]

HI CORPORATION is a leading research and development company in middleware development for embedded devices. Its flagship product, a real-time 3D rendering engine "MascotCapsule," has been adopted by five Japanese mobile network operators as well as by major mobile phone manufacturers for their global releases. As of the end of March 2009, MascotCapsule was shipped with more than 500 million units of mobile phones worldwide.

A variety of console-quality 3D content and 3D user interfaces using MascotCapsule are widely distributed in China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, United States and more. HI will continue to actively provide MascotCapsule for home and car electronic devices other than mobile phones.

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

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CONTACT:

HI CORPORATION
Toyomi Masuda, +81-3-3710-9376
Public Relations: press@hicorp.co.jp
Technology: support@hicorp.co.jp
Products and Licenses: adinfo@hicorp.co.jp

HI CORPORATION 3D Rendering Engine "MascotCapsule(R) eruption" Is Adopted for Capcom's Game "Resident Evil(R) 4: iPad(R) edition" for iPad (Graphic: Business Wire)