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Aug. 7, 2002
CyberLink PowerDVD 4.0 XP and PowerDirector Pro 2.0 Chosen by Pine Technologies for its XFX High Performance Graphic Card Series

Taipei, Taiwan----Aug. 7, 2002----CyberLink Corp., a leading developer of digital video software and e-learning solutions, announced today that both PowerDVD 4.0 XP and PowerDirector Pro 2.0 have been selected by the leading graphic card supplier, Pine Technologies to offer theater-quality DVD playback and personal Digital Video production solutions to its users.

"Viewing and creating Digital Video rapidly gaining popularity with consumers in the PC market", stated Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "The combination of PowerDVD XP for movie viewing and PowerDirector Pro, which lets users create their own Hollywood-quality movies on optical discs, is an excellent combination with the superior video quality delivered by Pine."

According to Danny Wong, Vice President of Pine Technologies, "We've selected PowerDVD and PowerDirector because they are feature-rich video applications yet easy to use. Obviously, they were designed with the users in mind. In addition, CyberLink is a dynamic company that highly values customer relationships. Working with them had been a great experience for us."

PowerDVD 4.0 XP is a software DVD player and PowerDirector Pro 2.0 is a complete solution to capture, edit, author and burn videos on the PC. Both applications are perfect solutions to Pine's range of graphic cards from high performance cards for TV and gaming, to boards with TV-out functions.

About PowerDVD 4.0 XP
PowerDVD is the world's leading high-quality audio and video DVD software player, with advanced navigation and the most complete hardware support available. CyberLink's PowerDVD delivers high-quality DVD playback at full frame rates with extremely low CPU consumption (only 350MHz CPU or greater required). Key features include Dolby Headphone Technology, bringing a Virtual Surround experience to any standard pair of stereo headphones and Digital Zoom, allowing users to view special effects, hidden features and fine details at either 4 or 9 times the normal screen ratio. PowerDVD continues to be an excellent solution for OEM manufacturers, and is shipped by major drive, video card, and PC makers world-wide.

About PowerDirector Pro
PowerDirector aims at the consumer market making video production easy and enjoyable. It comes complete with video capture, edit, author, burn to playback functions. Featuring, the SVRT technology, PowerDirector is renowned for its speed to render video. In addition, it comes with features making it the best software solution for the capturing video from DV camcorders, such as InstantMPEG, scene detection, animation, titling and audio effects allowing user to create professional-like videos. PowerDirector supports output formats DVD, Video CDs and the Web. PowerDirector Pro is available in different versions for OEM bundling and retail. More information are available on www.gocyberlink.com.

About CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software products to market. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Video Entertainment and E-Training Solutions. Digital Video Entertainment products focus on providing video/audio playback and recording capabilities on the personal computer. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into powerful home theaters and digital video centers. The company's E-Training Solutions offer breakthrough technologies to stream and manage high-quality, media-rich contents over corporate intranets or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October of 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and its Web site is located at www.goCyberlink.com.

About Pine Technologies
PINE Technology is one of the leading technology companies engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of quality Internet related products, providing a one-stop shopping solution for customers worldwide.

Headquartered in Hong Kong with over 1,000 employees worldwide our global presence allows us to build strong relationships through all sectors of the I.T & I.A market place.

The PINE Group was listed on the GEM board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 26, 1999 and raised approximately US$31 million from IPO. During the 3-month period ended December 31, 2000 the Group's total turnover reached US$84 million representaing a growth about 15.74 % compared to the previous years performance. The Group's market capitalization as of December 29 2000 was US$ 83.4 million.

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