ATI Chooses V3 Semiconductor for Advanced Set-top Box.

SANTA CLARA, California & TORONTO, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 7, 1999--V3 Semiconductor (NASDAQ: VVVI) announced today that ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) has chosen the V320USC-75LP from V3 for ATI's new Set-top Wonder(tm) II reference design.

The V320USC-75LP is a PCI system controller chip that directly supports 32/64 bit RISC processors (MIPS and SuperH). It has 640 Bytes of on-chip FIFO memory, 2 scatter/gather DMA engines, PCI Bus Power management Interface Specification Version 1.0, (E)SDRAM Controller with Enhanced SDRAM support, 3.3V operation, and 5V tolerant inputs. With these features, the V320USC is ideally suited to PCI applications such as Microsoft Windows CE, telecom, industrial control and networking.

The Set-top-Wonder II is a complete set-top box design for consumer electronics OEMs, including MIPS CPU, memory, graphics, modem, audio, and I/O. It is an ideal platform for OEMs designing a variety of consumer electronics devices including cable, satellite, and terrestrial set-top boxes, digital VCRs, and other devices requiring a high degree of interactivity or graphics/video performance.

"ATI's Rage(tm) chipset works seamlessly with our V320USC PCI and system controller to deliver unprecedented performance. This new set-top box design from ATI exploits the full potential of our V320USC PCI and system controller. We are delighted to be working with ATI, the world leader in advanced graphics chips, and in supporting their customers with new and advanced products for the set-top box market," says V3's Vice President of Engineering, Mike Alford.

"V3's new bridge/SDRAM controller brings the performance ATI requires for our advanced products. Their support has been excellent and we look forward to a continued relationship," says Dan Eiref, ATI's Manager of Set-top Box Marketing.

V3 SEMICONDUCTOR INC., the Embedded Intelligence Company, is a manufacturer of integrated circuits for the embedded systems market. V3 Semiconductor's clients include: Ascend Communications, Cisco Systems, Data General Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, Hewlett Packard Company, Hitachi America Ltd., International Business Machines (IBM), Northern Telecom and Bay Networks (Nortel Networks), Matsushita Corporation (Panasonic), Samsung Telecommunications, Toshiba Corporation, Xerox Corporation and other large corporations. To contact us please call V3 Semiconductor at 1-800-488-8410 or visit our Internet Web site at http://www.vcubed.com or http://www.v3semiconductor.com for current product information and ongoing announcements.

ATI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., the world's largest supplier of 3D graphics and multimedia technology, designs, manufactures and markets innovative and award-winning multimedia solutions and graphics components for the personal computer, set top box and consumer appliance markets. An ISO 9002 company, ATI is the world's leading supplier of video and 2D/3D graphics accelerators to OEM and retail customers. Founded in l985, ATI employs more than 1,600 people at headquarters in Thornhill, Ontario, and in offices in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Barbados, Malaysia, Japan and Hong Kong. ATI is a public company whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. For other ATI news releases visit their web site at http://www.atitech.com

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