DMP Joins Futuremark’s Handheld Benchmark Development Program

DMP Joins Futuremark’s Handheld Benchmark Development Program
3D graphics provider also licenses Futuremark source code

Saratoga, CA and Tokyo, Japan – September 13, 2005 – Futuremark
Corporation, a leading provider of performance-analysis software and
services, announced today that Tokyo-based Digital Media Professionals
Inc. (DMP) is joining its handheld benchmark development program. In
addition, DMP is licensing source codes for Futuremark’s SPMark04 3D
graphics test and forthcoming OpenGL ES benchmark suite.

“We are delighted to welcome DMP as a development partner,” said Tero
Sarkkinen, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for
Futuremark. “DMP develops sophisticated real-time 3D graphics
solutions; their participation proves the global reach of our
benchmarks that have become de-facto industry standards,” Sarkkinen added.

DMP has developed an advanced 3D graphics architecture featuring
company’s unique Maestro technologies which enable workstation class
quality graphics in embedded devices. DMP’s scalable and OpenGL ES
compliant solutions will support everything from amusement to handheld
devices.

Futuremark Corporation has created the industry’s first publicly
available OpenGL ES 3D graphics test as part of the SPMark04 benchmark
suite. The neutral performance test enables the industry to do
objective cross-platform comparisons. In addition, Futuremark is
currently working on next generation OpenGL ES and mobile Java
performance benchmarks.

“We are committed to delivering the best possible graphics solutions to
our customers, who in turn can offer the best user experience,” said
Tatsuo Yamamoto, President and CEO of DMP. “Futuremark’s advanced
graphics tests and independent benchmarks provide the credibility to
performance measurement that our customers require” Yamamoto added.

About DMP

Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP) is the world-class leader
bringing 3-D graphics solutions to market from Japan since its founding
in 2002, and is currently developing graphics IP core based on DMP’s
cutting edge 3-D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
(Headquarters at: 1-15-5 Naka-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo; Capital: 1.18
billion JPY; President & C.E.O.: Tatsuo Yamamoto; http://www.dmprof.com/) DMP’s entry model PICA processor is attracting
attention from leading manufacturers in Asia as a graphics IP core that
can be used to meet the demands of the 21st-century digital consumer
market–mobile phones, game devices, navigation systems, amusement
machines such as arcade games, and embedded home appliances.

About Futuremark® Corporation

Futuremark® Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis
software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark® is known
around the world for its benchmark products, including the 3DMark® and
PCMark® Series and SPMark(TM) (with more than 30 million copies
distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database
of over 12 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark®
maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland.

For more information, please visit http://www.futuremark.com .

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