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SANTA CLARA, CA -- Celebrating 20 years of innovation, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) continues to assert its leadership in the workstation market with the announcement of a trio of leading-edge products today at the CeBit conference in Germany. Designed for the compute-intensive technical market and high-end visualization, the new line of high performance desktop products ushers in a new market category called personal visualization. Personal Visualization enables users across a range of disciplines -- from geosciences and manufacturing to medical imaging -- to design or visualize extremely complex data at the desktop instead of using an expensive shared visualization room, greatly improving productivity and decision cycle time while at a significantly lower cost. Sun's new trio of affordable, high-performance products are the key components of its new vision for Personal Visualization Systems: The Sun Blade(tm) 2000 workstation, the Sun(tm) XVR-1000 graphics accelerator, and the state-of-the-art 24-inch, digital flat-panel monitor. Sun also announced a new relationship with Opticore, one of the world's leading developers of 3D real-time software for interactive product visualization and design/styling, to bring the strength of Sun's 64-bit UltraSPARC(R) architecture and professional-level 3D graphics to a new customer base. "While this year marks our 20th anniversary as the industry's workstation leader," said Robbie Turner, vice president of Client and Technical Market Products for Sun Microsystems, "We're already investing to set the industry agenda for the next 20 years of innovation in technical computing. With our new Personal Visualization Systems and industry relationships, and our grid computing technologies and initiatives, Sun is helping customers develop high quality products, reduce decision cycles and speed time to market." The Technology Behind Personal Visualization Systems The platform powering personal visualization is the world's fastest workstation, the newly announced Sun Blade 2000. Featuring industry-leading 64-bit, dual 1.05 Ghz UltraSPARC III Cu processors, Sun's latest workstation set a new world record for floating point performance with a score of 827 SPECfp2000. Sun also unveiled the Sun XVR-1000 graphics accelerator, which provides large texture memory, 30-bit color precision, and the industry's first window-based dynamic multisampling technology on a workstation, delivering superior resolution and image accuracy to help customers make more informed, critical decisions for their businesses. Completing the platform is Sun's new 24-inch, flat-panel monitor, which is the first digital interface display in the industry to deliver 1920 X 1200 resolution at 60 Hz. Further making high-end visualization at the desktop a reality, the monitor supports 2.3 million pixels and offers a viewable space equal to that of a 27.5-inch CRT monitor.