ATI's New RADEON Family Reaps Industry's Top Awards and Acclaim.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 Revolutionary new graphics chips crush the competition with hundreds of awards and accolades ATI Technologies Inc. (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 ) (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) ) today announced that it is winning big. Since their launch earlier this year, the RADEON(TM) 9700 PRO visual processing unit (VPU VPU Video Processing Unit VPU Vice Presidential Unit (World Bank) VPU Vicaría Pastoral Universitaria (Santiago, Chile) VPU Vulnerable Prisoner Unit (UK) ) and the RADEON(TM) 9000 PRO graphics chip have eradicated the competition in numerous graphics card comparisons and have received top industry awards and worldwide accolades. Hailed as the 'King of Graphics', ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO dominates all benchmarks with its breakneck speeds and cinematic-quality visuals. Powered by eight parallel rendering pipelines, Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 9.0 support, 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. 8X support and a fully programmable floating point architecture, the world's first visual processing unit (VPU) brought home Editor's Choice Awards, the Kick Ass Award, the Product Excellence Award and the Simply Amazing Award in publications including PC Gamer, Computer Games Magazine Computer Games Magazine was a computer gaming print magazine. It was formerly Computer Games Strategy Plus, and before that, Strategy Plus. While its initial focus was on strategy games, it covered a wide range of game genres. , PC Net, Maximum PC, OC Workbench and Hardinfo, among others. "The RADEON 9700 PRO is the fastest card money can buy, and has a future-proof feature set," said Will Smith, Technical Editor, Maximum PC. "As the fastest, most feature-complete 3D accelerator, it's completely worthy of our highest award." "(H)ardOCP (www.hardocp.com) awarded both the RADEON 9700 PRO and the RADEON 9000 PRO Top Pick Awards," said Kyle Bennett, Editor-in-Chief, (H)ardOCP. "The RADEON 9700 PRO obliterates the competition with its power and performance, while the RADEON 9000 PRO leads the mainstream market with high-end features like DirectX 8.1 support, at an unbelievable price." "Recognition with hundreds of awards and accolades is proof of ATI's tremendous success with the RADEON 9700 PRO and the RADEON 9000 PRO," said Paul Ayscough, Director of Corporate Marketing, ATI Technologies, Inc. "The industry continues to show overwhelming support of ATI's leading-edge graphics technology through a barrage of design wins, killer awards and rave reviews." For more information on the award winning RADEON 9700 PRO and RADEON 9000 PRO, or on the recently announced RADEON(TM) 9500 PRO, visit www.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. .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 Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (ATY). 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. |
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