ADAPTIVE SOLUTIONS BOOKS $4 MILLION EUROPEAN ORDER FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARALLEL PROCESSING PRODUCTS.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1995--Adaptive Solutions (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADSO) announced today that the company has received an order valued at approximately $4 million for the company's CNAPS CNAPS Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies PC board products from Cromemco GMBH, a key distributor in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Deliveries of the high-performance parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. products are scheduled to begin in the current year. CNAPS PC parallel processing technology, capable of up to five billion operations per second, accelerates up to 100-fold image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished and recognition functions such as character recognition, filtering and convolutions and image manipulation functions such as rotation and resizing. With up to 256 embedded processors on a single card, CNAPS PC is the world's foremost PC board-level massively parallel See MPP. processing solution. "Adaptive Solutions' product was chosen by our major European customers because of the significant competitive advantage the CNAPS technology offered," said Manfred Scheller of Cromemco, Adaptive Solutions' largest distributor in Europe. "The Adaptive's technology made it possible for them to win significant business over some outstanding competition." "We are excited about the market's endorsement and embrace of massively parallel image and recognition processing technology," said Greg Holman, Business Unit Director for Adaptive Solutions' Document Processing Initiative. "This order from Cromemco is strong support and recognition of the superiority of Adaptive Solutions' CNAPS technology and is only the latest in a series of significant steps forward for the company." Adaptive Solutions, headquartered in Beaverton, pioneered parallel processing for the desktop and embedded applications. Adaptive designs and manufactures parallel processing products using the CNAPS architecture for pattern recognition applications, including image processing and neural networks. CNAPS accelerates up to 100-fold image processing and recognition functions such as filtering and convolutions, and image manipulation functions such as rotation and color transformation. For more information, contact Adaptive Solutions at 1400 NW Compton Dr., Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006. Phone 800/482-6277; Fax 503/690-1249. -0- Adaptive Solutions and the Adaptive Solutions logo are registered trademarks of Adaptive Solutions Inc. All other trademarks are for identification purposes only and are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Adaptive Solutions Bob Anundson, 503/690-1236 boba@asi.com or KVO KVO Keep Vein Open KVO Key-Value Observing KVO Kunstvakonderwijs (Dutch) KVO Keeler, Vandyke, O'Brien (KVO Industries; Santa Rosa CA) Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Holt, 503/221-2371 lindy_holt@kvo.com |
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