ATI's MOBILITY RADEON 9000 and MOBILITY RADEON 7500 Processors Now Available in Apple's New Titanium PowerBook G4 and iBook Portables.Business Editors MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2002 Powerful visual processors featuring desktop class 3D acceleration and industry-leading power management available in the award-winning Apple designs ATI's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ATYT ATYT ATI Technologies, Inc (stock symbol) ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :ATY ATY Air Textured Yarn (textile) ATY Watertown, SD, USA (Airport Code) ATY After-Tax Yield ) award-winning, industrial-strength mobile visual processor, the MOBILITY(TM) RADEON(TM) 9000 with up to 64MB of integrated DDR RAM is now available in Apple's elegant and powerful Titanium PowerBook G4 notebook, and the powerful MOBILITY(TM) RADEON(TM) 7500 with up to 32MB DDR RAM is now available in the world's most popular consumer and education portable, the Apple iBook. "The MOBILITY RADEON 9000's version 1.4 pixel shaders bring exciting new special effects to Apple's mobile users, while the MOBILITY RADEON 7500 accelerates 3D visual effects and enables crisp full frame-rate DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. video to deliver a truly immersive multimedia experience to consumers" said Reuven Soraya, Director of Marketing, Mobile Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. is delighted to be working closely with Apple to deliver impeccable 3D graphics and an outstanding overall visual experience to Apple's PowerBook G4 and iBook customers." "The Titanium PowerBook G4 and the new iBook deliver cutting-edge features in stunning, thin and light portable designs," said Greg Joswiak, vice president of Hardware Product Marketing. "By choosing the world's fastest, most feature-rich mobile graphics processors for both the PowerBook and iBook, we're delivering best-in-class graphics performance to our professional and consumer portable customers." The MOBILITY RADEON 9000 is the world's most powerful mobile visual processor, and is the first and only mobile visual processor to support version 1.4 pixel and vertex shaders, which deliver breathtaking realism to the latest 3D games. The MOBILITY RADEON 7500 graphics processor brings all the features and performance of a desktop PC to the notebook space, including lightning-fast 3D acceleration, superior video editing capability, smooth DVD (digital versatile disc digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have as much as 26 times the storage capacity of a CD. ) playback, integrated TV-out, multi-monitor support, and the ability to run the industry's most graphics-intensive applications. All of the new Titanium PowerBook G4 and iBook models take advantage of Quartz(TM) Extreme in Mac OS X Jaguar See Jaguar and Mac OS X. . Quartz Extreme uses the OpenGL-based graphics engine rather than the G4 processor to accelerate the compositing and rendering of 2D, 3D, and QuickTime content. The entire desktop becomes a fully accelerated OpenGL scene to dramatically improve overall system performance and make the graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to more responsive. For all-day mobile use, the new notebooks also offer industry-leading battery life. Company Background Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia solutions for the personal computer and Mac platforms. The Company has more than 1,900 employees supporting customers from its headquarters in Markham, Ontario, Canada, as well as from offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. ATI Technologies Inc., at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 2631 or Copyright 2002 ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. For media or industry analyst support, visit our Web site at http://www.ati.com or contact: Derek Baker, Counsellor, BenchMark Porter Novelli, at (416) 422-5178 or dbaker@bmporternovelli.com For investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. support, please contact: Janet Craig, Director, Investor Relations, ATI Technologies Inc., at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 2631 or jcraig@ati.com |
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