Press Release
- Archives 2001
ATI endorses
AMD 'S HyperTransport™ technology
Industry-standard
technology designed to accelerate graphics processing
Tuesday
February 13, 2001
MARKHAM, Ontario -
ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT), the world’s largest supplier of graphics, video and multimedia solutions, today announced its support for and planned incorporation of AMD’s HyperTransportTM technology into future ATI graphics processor products, thereby helping to establish the technology as a future industry standard.
HyperTransport is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that reduces the number of buses within the system, provides a high-performance link for embedded applications and is designed to enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It enables the chips inside PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 24 times faster than with existing technologies.
“AMD is glad to have ATI as a partner implementing the HyperTransport bus,” said Gabriele Sartori, Director of Technology Evangelism, AMD. “HyperTransport technology’s reduction of bottlenecks in the PC architecture is planned to deliver PC users a new level of gaming and Internet experience. Using our revolutionary high speed link, ATI has the opportunity to further unleash the power of leading-edge processor architectures of the third millennium.”
“ATI fully endorses AMD’s HyperTransport technology and will support its industry standardization through our plans to incorporate it into future products,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing, & General Manager, Desktop Marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. “The HyperTransport technology is an example of the innovative advances we’ve come to expect from AMD, and ATI is continuing to work with them to bring personal computer users an unparalleled graphical experience.”
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Inc. Alpha is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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and specifications are subject to change without notice.
Company Backgrounds
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits
for the personal and networked computer and communications
markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States,
Europe, Asia and Japan. AMD produces microprocessors, flash
memory devices and support circuitry for communications and
networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale,
California, AMD had revenues of (US) $4.6 billion in 2000.
(NYSE: AMD)
Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is the world’s largest
supplier of graphics, video and multimedia solutions for personal
computer and Mac platforms. The pioneer, innovator and market
leader in the graphics industry, ATI provides cutting-edge
technologies for the PC, set-top box, e-appliance and game
console markets. The Company has more than 1,900 employees
supporting customers from its headquarters in Markham, Ontario,
Canada, as well as from offices in Barbados, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and
the United States. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT)
and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
Contact Information
Brian Chadderton
Public Relations Manager
ATI Technologies Inc.
(905) 882-2600, Ext. 8350
bchadder@ati.com
Sean Cleveland
Public Relations
AMD
(408) 749-5980
sean.cleveland@amd.com
John B. Challinor II APR
Director, Public Relations
ATI Technologies Inc.
(905) 882-2600, Ext. 8815
jchallin@ati.com
Anne Ferguson
Account Director
Benchmark Porter Novelli
(416) 423-6605, Ext. 261
aferguson@bmporternovelli.com
