ATI's New RADEON Family Generates Abundance of Design Wins.

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MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2002

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ATI Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:ATYT)(TSX:ATY) today announced that the RADEON(TM) 9700 PRO and the RADEON(TM) 9000 PRO are leading the graphics industry with a barrage of design wins. ATI's groundbreaking RADEON(TM) 9700 PRO visual processing unit (VPU) and RADEON(TM) 9000 PRO are driving the visual revolution with numerous tier one and custom PC makers including Acer, Apple, Alienware, Dell, eMachines, Falcon Northwest, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Voodoo Extreme.

Launched earlier this year, the RADEON 9700 PRO has blown all competition out of the water with its cinematic-quality images and breakneck speeds, thrilling gamers and PC enthusiasts. The RADEON 9000 PRO, also launched this past summer, delivers the most complete set of features and the highest performance to the mainstream market - at the best price.

"The profusion of design wins from the world's top computer manufacturers proves ATI hit the mark with enthusiasts and mainstream consumers with the RADEON 9700 PRO and the RADEON 9000 PRO," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies, Inc. "We've been crowned the 'king of graphics' and that leadership position is reflected in our market share. ATI is winning because we deliver what the market wants: the most feature rich and performance driven graphics products - and we're doing it on time."

"ATI's new products are meeting with massive success," said Dr. Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie Research, the leading analyst firm in graphics and multimedia. "The company has really hit the mark with its RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9000 products - and obviously customers are happy with what they see. ATI's products garnered a large number of the new design wins for this season from OEMs and add-in-board manufacturers worldwide. It's a good indicator that things are going well for ATI, and the industry."

The world's first VPU, the RADEON 9700 PRO, can be found in the following:

-- Alienware custom built PCs

-- Dell Dimension 8200, 8250 and 4550

-- eMachines T2200SE

-- Fujitsu FMV-W series

-- Falcon NorthWest custom built PCs

-- Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO line

-- Gateway 700XL

-- Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario 8000 series

-- NEC: Packard Bell iXtreme for the consumer market

-- NEC PowerMate XL4 and XL5 for the professional market

-- Voodoo Extreme custom built PCs

The RADEON 9000 PRO and/or RADEON 9000 can be found in the following:

-- Apple Power Mac G4

-- Acer Aspire 8000 (Athlon 2000+, Athlon 2200+)

-- Dixons Advent 3816 BTO & 3212

-- Fujitsu Siemens SCALEO

-- Hewlett-Packard Pavilion series

-- Maxdata Favorit & Future PC line

-- Mesh Matrix XP series (2200, 2400 & 2400 GTI)

-- Mesh Elite series (2.5, 2.6 & 2.8 GHz)

-- NEC: Packard-Bell range of desktop PCs

-- Systemax Inspire 7147

ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO boasts a number of key features that power an extreme level of graphics quality and performance, triumphing over every other product on the market. Its architecture features eight fully-programmable parallel rendering pipelines, full floating point architecture, Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 9 support, and AGP 8X support.

The RADEON 9000 PRO sets a new standard for consumer graphics by incorporating high-end features such as quad-pipe architecture, Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 8.1 support and industry-leading video playback, all at a mainstream price point.

For more information about ATI's recent flood of design wins, RADEON 9700 PRO and RADEON 9000 PRO, visit www.ati.com.

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 deliver 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 2001 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 (ATY).

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