Crucial Technology Offers Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card; Online Memory Leader Presents High-End Video Card That Delivers Top-of-the-Line Graphics Performance.Business Editors MERIDIAN, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2003 Crucial Technology, a division of Micron and one of the world's largest direct memory upgrade providers, introduced today the Crucial(R) Radeon(TM) 9800 Pro video card, powered by 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. (R) technology and featuring 128MB 2.86 nanosecond double data rate (DDR) synchronous DRAM (SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. ). The next evolution in the high-end video card line, the Radeon 9800 Pro video card replaces the Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro video card with measurably improved cinematic-quality graphics for gaming and sophisticated CAD and graphic design. "Tests in Crucial's performance lab show the Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro card delivers a 22 percent performance gain over the 9700 Pro card when running 3Dmark(R) 03, a leading third-party graphics benchmarking software," said Crucial Technical Support Manager Mike Sanor. "That is an incredible jump in performance and results in some of the fastest, most life-like graphics achievable on computers today." The Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro video card features 400MHz core clock speed, 128MB 2.86 nanosecond DDR SDRAM, 256-bit memory interface, dual-display capability, DVI-I (DVI-Integrated) See DVI. output, six-foot S-video and RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. cables, a DVI to CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. converter, an S-video to RCA converter, DirectX(R) 9 support, and AGP 8X support. The video card is available on Crucial's Web site at www.crucial.com and is currently priced at $399.99. All Crucial video cards come with a multilingual user guide, limited lifetime warranty, free second-day shipping within the contiguous U.S. on qualified orders, and Crucial's renowned customer service and technical support. About Crucial Crucial Technology is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Micron Technology, Inc. Crucial sells high-quality RAM upgrades, flash memory cards, flash devices, and video cards on its Web site at http://www.crucial.com. Crucial offers over 95,000 upgrades for more than 19,000 desktops, notebooks, servers, routers, printers, and electronic devices. Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures and markets DRAMs, Flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other semiconductor components and memory modules for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit its web site at www.micron.com. Micron, Crucial and Crucial Technology are registered trademarks of Micron Technology, Inc. ATI(R), ATI Technologies(R), and Radeon(TM) are used under license and are registered trademarks or trademarks of ATI Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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