Multimedia

Number Nine Visual Technology

The Company

According to IDC Research Number Nine Visual Technology is the fourth largest manufacturer of graphics and video accelerator boards for the PC and is the number one supplier of high-end VRAM accelerators. Number Nine makes its own silicon for some of its high end graphics boards called "Imagine 128." For most of its other boards it relies upon chips supplied by S3. Nine has OEM agreements with Dell, Gateway 2000, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. The company has a very small float with half of its 9 million shares closely held, this can contribute to some wide swings. NINE's announcement of an OEM deal with Micron today has NINE's shares spiking up almost 40%. MU is offering the 128-bit Imagine 128 Series 2 graphics and MPEG video accelerator as standard equipment in its Powerdigm XLI, a new line of workstations powered by dual 200-MHz Pentium Pro processors. With the best balance sheet of the group, no debt and a full 36% of each share backed in cash, and a PSR of 0.28 NINE was bound for a move.

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