Press Release
- Archives 2000
ATI's
Radeon® graphics board a specialty graphics solution
for new Compaq Deskpro EX and Compaq Deskpro EXS desktop systems
ATI's
value Radeon® product, the Radeon 32MB graphics board,
now available as a personalized option choice for new Compaq
corporate PC systems
September
25, 2000
Toronto, Canada -
ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today that Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) has selected Radeon® as a specialty graphics board, available by order, for the new Compaq Deskpro EX and Compaq Deskpro EXS commercial desktops which are designed for enterprise customers and small/ growing businesses.
The Radeon 32MB board offers the best combination of price and performance of any product in its class. Radeon delivers high performance, extensive functionality, and industry-leading multimedia capabilities at a price point highly attractive to end customers demanding performance and value. Available through a unique Compaq marketing initiative which links the Compaq and ATI corporate websites, the Radeon 32MB can be ordered direct from ATI by Deskpro EX and Deskpro EXS customers, with the full benefit of ATI's technical support.
ATI is delighted to be selected as the leading Graphics vendor to expand Compaq's Graphics Excellence Program into the mainstream 2D space. The program offers a 3-tier qualification structure that, prior to today, enabled 3D and multi-monitor 2D graphics vendors to have their products available on Compaq Workstations. With this announcement, ATI becomes the first mainstream graphics supplier in the Specialty category and the first member of the Graphics Excellence program to provide product for Compaq's new Deskpro EX commercial PC's targeted at enterprise customers and small/ growing businesses.
"With today's announcement, ATI joins a growing number of graphics technology vendors who are directly benefiting from Compaq's innovative Graphics Excellence Program," said Brian McCarthy, Graphics Product Manager, Compaq Computer Corporation. "We look forward to strengthening our working relationship and developing this incremental business for both companies."
Radeon will be matched with a wide range of IntelŪ processors in the new Compaq DeskPro EX and Compaq DeskPro EXS corporate PC systems, from the Celeron™ 566MHz to PentiumŪ III 1GHz.
"The Radeon 32MB graphics board offers the industry-leading performance of the Radeon chip, but at a price point of under US$200, which makes it ideal for the retail market, OEMs and systems integrators," said Gerd Queisser, senior vice president, worldwide sales, ATI Technologies Inc. "The Radeon 32MB board is a remarkable value proposition for high-powered, but cost-conscious applications."
Radeon 32MB graphics board: ideal price/performance solution for OEM and system integrator applications
The Radeon 32MB graphics board is ATI's value priced, entry level Radeon card for the retail, OEM and system integrator markets. The board uses ATI's latest Radeon graphics processing technology, combined with 32MB of SDRAM memory, to deliver a highly cost-effective combination of performance and feature set functionality.
Ideal for high-performance desktop PC applications, the Radeon 32MB board includes the full, industry-leading feature set of ATI's Radeon family of products, including hardware transformation and clipping and lighting (T&L) geometry, Charisma Engine™, and on-chip hardware HDTV decoder which incorporates advanced video technology inherited from ATI's video oriented set-top box and consumer electronics products. The OEM-specification Radeon 32 MB board includes DVI and TV-out, enabling decode of all HDTV formats with reduced CPU utilization, and without any need for external hardware. The Radeon 32MB board comes equipped with ATI's RAGE THEATER™ analog encoder/decoder chip, and like other members of the Radeon product family, is the world's best platform for PC-based HDTV, providing a complete convergence solution.
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manufacturers. Features, pricing, availability and specifications
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Company Profile
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 electronics 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 1985, ATI employs more than 1,700 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.
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