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To: richard surckla who wrote (47752)	7/25/2000 12:34:09 AM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Sony Unit Unveils Ultra-Fast Graphics Computer Tuesday, July 25, 2000 TOKYO (Nikkei)--Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has developed a commercial-use computer for high-speed transmission of digitized graphics, company sources said Monday. It plans to market the product in spring. The new computer has more than 10 times the image-processing capacity of the company's PlayStation 2 game console. It can display up to 1.2 billion polygon faces per second, making it among the fastest such computers in the world. While drawing people/objects and backgrounds on conventional computers requires two steps -- outline and texture -- the new computer achieves this in a single step. The computer is part of the company's plans to use its semiconductor expertise accumulated from making game consoles to move into equipment for digital broadcasting and movie transmission. The "GScube" was to be unveiled at the SIGGRAPH computer show in New Orleans Monday. The price is not decided, but the company plans to sell it to movie studios and arcade-game development companies. The computer can also be set up at movie theaters, along with a data-storage server and a digital projector. Film distributors would then be able to send a program over broadband lines that the computer could automatically turn into a digital movie to be shown at the cinema. Sony Computer has invested nearly 260 billion yen in PlayStation 2 chips over the past two years. The company hopes to increase its chip technology prowess through the move into sophisticated commercial-use game machines. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday morning edition)