Seiko Electronics Industrial Co will become the sixth distributor of Sun Microsystems workstations in Japan when it starts marketing the things later this month: Seiko Electronics is the market leader in peripherals for computer graphics systems, notably a 40% domestic market share for graphics terminals, and the company intends to add value by fitting the Sun workstations with its proprietary graphics board; Seiko signed with Sun to use the Sparc RISC and future plans include development and manufacture of its own Sparc-based graphics workstations, and high-power local area network servers; the other Japanese distributors of Sun workstations are C Itoh Techno-Science, Toshiba, Nippon Steel, and Fujitsu, as well as Nippon Sun itself.
