XIONICS INTRODUCES ADVANCED IMAGE DISPLAY SOLUTIONS TO AID WINDOWS-BASED
DOCUMENT IMAGING APPLICATIONS

XipView Sets New Price/Performance Standard;
Supports Cornerstone Image Accel Applications

PEABODY, Mass., October 31, 1994 -- Xionics, a leading developer of
network-based document image accelerators, today announced XipView, the
industry's most advanced Windows-based image display solution. Designed to
meet the needs of the fast-growing $2 billion document imaging industry,
the new image accelerator insures optimum display performance for document
imaging Windows applications.

Available in grayscale or color, XipView takes advantage of Xionics'
next-generation image processing architecture to set a new
price/performance standard. XipView provides users with today's fastest
image decompression, flip-rate, rotation and scaling at the lowest cost of
any imaging display controller on the market.

Competing products use a combination of hardware and software, running in
PC memory. XipView improves on this by employing a single, proprietary,
high-performance VLSI chip for an unparalleled decompression rate of up to
40 document pages per second. Xionics is aiming XipView at the expanding
Windows-based document imaging marketplace.

"As document management becomes a mainstream application, new market needs
have arisen for faster, affordable, and more flexible imaging display
subsystems. Xionics has stepped in to fill this void in the market,"
explained, Gary Ambrosino, Xionics' general manager. "By utilizing the
core image processing technology found in all of Xionics' products, we
provide exceptional price performance as compared to competing solutions
such as Image Accel."

Ambrosino added that in order to maintain industry compatibility and
support the market's move to open systems, Xionics' XipView product will
support Image Accel applications. "We are the only vendor besides
Cornerstone capable of delivering an Image Accel-compatible display
solution" said Ambrosino. "Our goal is to expand users' options for
purchasing display solutions that support the standard."

Fast Windows-Based Image Acceleration

Many companies now rely on document imaging as a core business technology.
As such, document imaging has joined the ranks of word processing and
spreadsheet software as a "must-have" Windows-based application. However,
unlike office automation software packages, document images require
increased display performance, higher resolutions and very fast
decompression and manipulation.

A dedicated image display solution, with specially designed chips and
firmware placed in a 16-bit ISA or PCI I/O slot or a controller
card/monitor subsystem, is required to support the processing power to
handle accelerated viewing and manipulation of images under the Windows
environment. Without it, a user's application would slow down
tremendously. With it, users receive fast image decompression, flip-rate,
rotation and scaling for dramatically better productivity.

Commonly available Windows display controllers and monitors do not address
the requirements of document imaging applications. A VGA-based accelerator
card, for example, improves basic Windows display speed, but provides
inadequate high-resolution display support and cannot decompress an image
-- which is essential for high productivity in viewing stored document
images and files. Also available are coprocessor-based CAD boards which
are expensive and optimized specifically for CAD applications.
Additionally, these boards interface to the CPU, slowing down the image
display process.

Xionics' new XipView image display solutions have been optimized to meet
the growing demand for the display and manipulation of images in the
Windows environment: fast image decompression, accelerated Windows
display, high-resolution and refresh rates. XipView combines the
technology to meet these requirements into a fully self-contained
subsystem with all of the processing and data manipulation occurring at
the chip level. "By bypassing the CPU and doing all the image processing
within the XipView card, Xionics truly enables fast image-enabled Windows
computing," said Ambrosino.

XipView High-Resolution Color Imaging Display Controller
Xionics' XipView color imaging display solution is a 4.5-inch by 9-inch
controller card that fits into a single 16-bit ISA or PCI I/O slot on any
PC/compatible computer. The card works with a variety of the industry's
most popular high-performance, high-resolution, multi-scan monitors,
including Hitachi, Nokia, Phillips, NANAO, IDEK, Sony and ViewSonic.
XipView's color controller supports 1600x1280 resolution with vertical
refresh rates as high as 85Hz. The card displays 256 colors.

The feature that sets Xionics' color display controller apart from the
alternative solutions is the card's compatibility with a wide variety of
monitors. This enables users to choose a monitor that best fits their
specifications and price range.

XipView Grayscale Imaging Display Subsystem

The XipView grayscale solution is comprised of a display controller card
and Xionics' own grayscale 19-inch monitor. The subsystem is capable of
displaying images at 1600x1280 in 16 shades of gray with a vertical
refresh rate of 76 Hz. Xionics offers a three-year warranty on the
monitor.

Rounds Out Product Offerings

XipView rounds out the company's product line of document image processing
accelerators, joining the XipPrint and NetScan products. The combination
of these products provides users with low-cost, plug-and-play scan, view
and print acceleration across local area networks. By supporting all of
the key imaging peripherals, Xionics is the only company able to provide a
single-vendor solution for the highest level of integration and
compatibility.

Pricing and Availability

The XipView color and grayscale image display solutions are available
immediately through Xionics' international network of selected resellers
and systems integrators. The XipView color controller has a suggested list
price of $1,560. The XipView grayscale controller and monitor subsystem
has a suggested list price of $2,495.

Company Information

Xionics, based in Peabody, Mass., has been a pioneering developer of image,
PC and network technology for 15 years. Today, the company is a leading
supplier of a broad range of both mass market and high-performance image
acceleration technology for software developers, OEMs, systems integrators
and resellers in over 35 countries.

Xionics
Two Corporation Way
Peabody, MA 01960
508-531-6666,  fax 508-531-6669

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