ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO Ranked Among Top Tech Gifts for This Holiday Season.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 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. holds the crown for graphics leadership 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 RADEON(TM) 9700 PRO has been selected as one of the best technology gifts for this holiday season by TechTV. The highly acclaimed 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) ) is the world's fastest and most powerful graphics processor, making it the most highly sought-after graphics board for the holidays. "Anyone who plays PC video games wants a RADEON 9700 PRO this holiday season," said Robert Heron, technical analyst, TechTV. "We chose the RADEON 9700 PRO as one of TechTV's Top 20 holiday gifts because it's by far the best graphics card on the market and without this card, no PC gaming experience is complete." "ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO has been holding the graphics crown for several months now - and it will continue to do so throughout the holiday season," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "For the definitive gaming experience, there's no other choice than ATI." The award-winning RADEON 9700 PRO delivers stunning visuals at breakneck speeds. With eight parallel rendering pipelines, 256-bit 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 memory interface, Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 9.0 support, AGP 8X support and a fully programmable floating point architecture, the RADEON 9700 PRO crushes the nearest competing product. "ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO is a great gift for the PC game player," said Mehrdad Akbar, business team manager for Computer Peripherals, Best Buy. "We expect to see a lot of customers looking for this product this holiday season." ATI's powerful and highly sought-after graphics products are available from ATI and its add-in-board partners. About the Company 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. |
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