ATI's New High-End and Entry-Level FireGL Accelerators Available in HP's Pentium4/Xeon Based Workstations.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community 2003 Booth No. 2936 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2003 Complete Line of Scaleable, Parallel Processing Graphics Solutions Delivers Industry Leading Performance at All Price Points ATI Technologies Inc. (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) ) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :ATY ATY Air Textured Yarn (textile) ATY Watertown, SD, USA (Airport Code) ATY After-Tax Yield ) today announced that the entire range of FireGL(TM) workstation graphics accelerators is available on Pentium4/Xeon based HP Workstations. When integrated into an HP workstation, the high bandwidth, parallel processing architecture of the FireGL line, coupled with its new hardware accelerated rendering capabilities, dramatically increases productivity and decreases production time for digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. and mechanical design professionals. 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. offers a complete line of workstation graphics accelerators that deliver industry-leading performance at every price segment. At the high-end, the recently announced FireGL X2-256 features 256MB of DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory II high-speed memory, and is available as a distinctive option for the HP Workstation xw4100, xw6000 and xw8000 through HP's Leadership Graphics Program. The FireGL X2-256 is powered by the FGL 1. FGL - Flow Graph Lisp. A distributed dataflow language for AMPS (Applicative Multi-Processing System). "A Loosely-Coupled Applicative Multi-Processing System", R. Keller et al, NCC, AFIPS June 1979, pp.613- 622. 2. FGL - Function Graph Language. Related to FEL. (TM) 9800 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) with four geometry engines and eight parallel rendering pipelines. At the entry level, the FireGL T2-128 features 128MB of DDR memory, offers superior price/performance, and is available as a distinctive option in the HP Workstation xw4100 and xw6000. The FireGL T2-128 is powered by the FGL 9600 VPU with two geometry engines and four parallel rendering pipelines. And for low-profile workstations, the innovative design of the FireGL T2-64s packs a remarkable amount of graphics processing power into a low profile solution that is available in the HP Workstation xw3100. The FireGL T2-64s has 64MB of high-speed DDR memory, and is powered by the FGL 9600 VPU with two geometry engines and four parallel rendering pipelines. These new products join the existing FireGL Z1-128p, and FireGL X1-256p HP Workstations graphics options. "With a complete workstation graphics line encompassing products from mobile workstations to high-end visualization systems, ATI is able to offer the best solution to each customer based on their specific needs as well as their role in the design and production process," said Dinesh Sharma, Director of Workstation Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "In addition, ATI is unique in offering comprehensive workstation level support directly to all HP customers who select FireGL workstation graphics options." "The combined expertise of HP Workstations and ATI Technology provides today's animators, special effects wizards, editors and producers the performance they require to work on ground-breaking digital content creation," said Jim Zafarana, vice president of worldwide marketing, HP Workstation Global Business Unit. "HP is proud to provide a high performance platform to create content that ranges from robust 2D and 3D to life-like immersive 3D environments and visualization centers." In addition to full WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) A Microsoft facility that provides testing services for hardware and drivers for compliance with its operating systems. WHQL administers various logos that compliant vendors may reprint on their packages. certification, the FireGL line is certified for the leading DCC, CAD, AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) CFD (computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve ), and visual simulation applications. The large frame buffers of the FireGL line are designed to drive dual displays at a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 per screen. In addition, quad-buffered stereo 3D is supported on the FireGL X1-256p and the FireGL Z1-128p. For more information about FireGL workstation graphics accelerators, visit www.ati.com/FireGL or www.hp.com/workstations/ia32. About ATI Technologies ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost visual processor unit (VPU) provider, and is dedicated to delivering leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld markets. With 2002 revenues in excess of US $1 billion, ATI has more than 1,900 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (ATY). Copyright 2003 ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI, the ATI logo, 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 |
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