NeTpower Participates in Intel Technology Series -- Intel Platforms for Visual Computing; NeTpower Takes Center Stage with Intel in the Latest Intel Technology Series.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1997--NeTpower, the Windows NT(r) systems company, today announced that it is participating in the latest Intel Technology Series Forum focused on platforms for visual computing.

The event, being held in San Jose, CA, features executive speakers from Intel and advanced demonstrations from industry leaders such as NeTpower who will be showing workstation and server applications in the digital media, Mechanical CAD and content creation realm.

"NeTpower is proud to be a leading participant in Intel's Technology Series," said Robert C. Miller, chairman and CEO of NeTpower. "The NeTpower systems which we will be demonstrating today, coupled with leading digital media applications, illustrate how open systems technology partnered with NeTpower's advanced systems engineering, provide new levels of performance to the professional user at an aggressive price point. Our ongoing work with Intel in terms of system architecture and application optimization allows NeTpower to leverage a wide technology base to meet the requirements of its customers."

At the event today, NeTpower will showcase optimized systems solutions for applications including Electric Image's ElectricImage Animation System, Kinetix's 3D Studio MAX, Adobe's Premiere, Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, and VXtreme's Web Theater.

Solutions based around NeTpower's award winning SYMETRA and SYMETRAraq workstations, together with the ULTRAfx graphics solution will power these high performance digital media applications.

"Electric Image, Inc. selected NeTpower as a partner to unveil the NT version of our ElectricImage 3D products because of their optimized system performance and solutions support for digital media," said Jay Roth, president and CEO of Electric Image. "ElectricImage technology, renown as the world's fastest 3D rendering engine, sets a new level of price, performance and functionality for the Windows NT 3D animation and production markets. In response to an incredible demand from those markets, we are announcing that our entire product line will be available on Windows NT by the year end."

Additionally, NeTpower will show a technology demo of its next- generation high performance workstation, which will be powered by Intel architecture. This workstation, to be announced later in the year, will significantly boost the performance of applications in the visual computing markets.

As a part of its ongoing relationship with Intel, NeTpower will be working with leading digital media application vendors on versions of the software optimized for the forthcoming Intel Merced 64-bit Processor (see NeTpower release "NeTpower and Intel Working Together on Visual Computing for Intel's Future IA-64 Processor Family" -- January 27, 1997). NeTpower, Inc.

NeTpower, Inc., founded in 1993, is the only computer systems company exclusively focused on developing, optimizing, and supporting the Microsoft Windows NT(r) environment as a cost-effective, high- performance alternative to UNIX. The company's Pentium(r) Pro processor-based workstations and servers - designed for digital media, MCAD, database/infoserver and Internet applications-based on customer requirements offer the power of UNIX machines at a fraction of the price while providing the ease-of-use capabilities of Microsoft Windows NT.

NeTpower's management team consists of some of the foremost experts in the systems industry. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices worldwide. For information on NeTpower's products and services, visit our web site at http://www.netpower.com .

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