ATI's 3D RAGE PRO chips and boards leads industry in AGP performance and design wins.TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1997--(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 .) ATI Technologies Inc. (ATY:TSE), in conjunction with Intel's 440LX AGPset product announcement, announced today that its 3D RAGE PRO graphics accelerator has been selected by top PC computer manufacturers including COMPAQ, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , DELL, and ACER for their corporate and consumer AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. (Accelerated Graphics Port See AGP. (hardware, graphics) Accelerated Graphics Port - (AGP) A bus specification by Intel which gives low-cost 3D graphics cards faster access to main memory on personal computers than the usual PCI bus. ) systems. Enabling high-performance graphics on all Pentium(r) II systems with the 440LX AGPset, 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 the only graphics solution offering the hardware and software needed to take full advantage of AGP. ATI has leveraged the strength of its 3D RAGE PRO chip to unseat competitors and increase its market share. "The graphics industry is undergoing a strategic inflection point Inflection Point An event that changes the way we think and act. -Andy Grove, Founder of Intel. Notes: For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology. as it transitions from PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). to AGP-based graphics," said Dean McCarron of Mercury Research. "We predict that 45 percent of new PC systems will switch to AGP graphics within the coming year." Offering performance up to 4 times faster than other AGP solutions, ATI is the only graphics vendor currently supporting the AGP Texturing capability recommended in Intel's AGP specification. Other graphics vendors that have not implemented the complete AGP specification run the risk of delivering AGP performance that is even worse than today's PCI performance. "ATI 3D RAGE PRO's full implementation of AGP helps IBM Aptiva maintain its leadership role in delivering outstanding multimedia and 3D graphics to the consumer marketplace" said Brian Dalgetty, IBM Aptiva marketing director. ATI is the first graphics vendor currently shipping the software drivers needed to enable the AGP capabilities in Windows 95. Other graphics products without these software drivers will be limited to addressing only the amount of memory available locally on the graphics card, resulting in lower quality and less detail. "ATI's full 2X AGP solution delivers on the promise of AGP", said Martin Reynolds, Vice President of Technology Assessment at Dataquest, "Effective use of system memory through the AGP allows mainstream systems to support multimegabyte texture maps, delivering consumer applications with remarkable visual impact." ATI's 3D RAGE PRO, the most complete AGP controller on the market The 3D RAGE PRO supports the new AGP Texturing capability recommended by Intel's AGP specification. AGP Texturing improves parallelism by directly executing textures without having to load entire textures into the frame buffer. For example, a 4MB AGP solution will be able to address an additional 20MB of graphics memory by adding system memory. Other slower AGP offerings on the market today only support Local Texturing which must first load the entire texture into the frame buffer before processing. ATI supports both texturing capabilities today. 3D RAGE PRO also supports the fastest AGP Protocol: AGP 2X mode with the Sideband Addressing port and Pipelining. The Sideband Addressing (SBA SBA abbr. Small Business Administration Noun 1. SBA - an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government ) port and Pipelining provide superior performance by simultaneously transferring address and data request information along a separate port and by queuing requests for transactions. Using AGP 2X mode with the SBA port and Pipelining, the 3D RAGE PRO provides the most efficient way to transfer textures from system memory to the graphics controller On a motherboard implementation or through a 3D RAGE PRO accelerator add-in board, the 3D RAGE PRO chip is the ideal accelerator to realize the full benefit of AGP with state-of-the-art 2D, 3D and video acceleration. A floating point set-up engine improves small-triangle performance, adding even more detail to 3D scenes and 3D RAGE PRO's 64-bit, 100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM) A type of dynamic RAM chip that is similar to the SDRAM technology, but includes enhanced graphics features for use with display adapters. interface delivers 800 MB of low-latency frame buffer. "The 3D RAGE PRO is our choice for the best of the new bunch," said Peter N. Glaskowsky, senior analyst, MicroDesign Resources. "The 3D RAGE PRO design emphasizes fast floating-point set-up calculation, efficient caches, and a fast, flexible local-memory controller." XPERT@Play and XPERT@Work boards put it all together Today ATI is also introducing AGP versions of its successful graphics accelerator add-in boards, the XPERT@Play and the XPERT@Work. For users who want the fastest and highest-performing graphics accelerators on the market, the XPERT@Play AGP and the XPERT@Work AGP boards provide the best performance and highest quality as well as the large-texture benefits of AGP technology. The XPERT@Play has set new standards for gaming, multimedia and mainstream graphics acceleration applications, combining a powerful 2D accelerator, industry-leading 3D acceleration, an MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). card and PC to TV technology. XPERT@Play AGP further enhances the 3D experience with large-texture games and other graphic applications. The XPERT@Work is leading the way for Windows NT and Win `95 performance with superior 2D, 3D and video acceleration that is ideal for the most demanding business applications. XPERT@Work AGP will also allow designers, CAD and DTP See desktop publishing. DTP - desktop publishing users to create images with much larger textures than was previously possible. Corporate Profile ATI Technologies Inc., one of only two major suppliers of 3D graphics and multimedia technology in the world, designs, manufactures and markets innovative and award-winning multimedia solutions and graphics components for personal computers. The company is one of the world's leading suppliers of video and 2D/3D graphics accelerators to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and retail customers. Founded in 1985, ATI employs more than 900 people at headquarters in Thornhill, Ontario, with offices in the United States, Germany, France, the U.K., Ireland, Taiwan and Japan. ATI is a public company whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. . For other ATI news releases visit our web site at http://www.atitech.com Copyright(C) ATI Technologies Inc. 1997. All company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. CONTACT: ATI Technologies Inc. Brian Hentschel, 905/ 882-2600 (ext. 8130) bhentsch@atitech.ca www.atitech.com |
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