Press Release
- 2002
ATI's Radeon® 9700 PRO brings
world leading graphics to Fujitsu
ATI's GPU unleashes new levels of performance in FMV-W high-end desktops
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
MARKHAM, Ontario - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT)
today announced that the world's first visual processing unit
(GPU), its feature-rich Radeon® 9700 PRO, has been chosen
by Fujitsu to power the new flagship FMV-W series. Powered
by the Radeon 9700 PRO, the Fujitsu FMV-W high-end desktop
series will provide users with the fastest graphics performance
in the world.
Since its launch this summer, ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO has been
acclaimed as a truly revolutionary graphics chip that delivers
high-speed performance and cinematic-quality images unlike
anything ever seen on the PC. The Radeon 9700 PRO delivers
unparalleled power and performance by incorporating eight
parallel rendering pipelines, Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support,
AGP 8X support and a fully programmable floating point architecture.
"ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO offers the most power, and undeniably
the best graphics for our new line of corporate PCs," said
Koji Kinoshita, Director of Fujitsu Limited. "We are proud
to offer our customers the best in PCs and PC graphics, and
look forward to great acceptance of this new product. The
Radeon 9700 PRO will be a key component of that success."
ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO incorporates revolutionary architecture
focusing on performance, precision and programmability. The
feature-rich GPU includes SmartShader™ 2.0, SmoothVision™
2.0, HyperZ™ III, and VideoShader™, and is the industry's
first architecture to use programmable pixel shaders to accelerate
video streaming.
"Fujitsu's choice of the Radeon 9700 PRO for its new FMV-W
series is further testament to the tremendous and ongoing
acceptance within the industry of the world's first GPU,"
said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and General
Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "Users who demand
the best in visual quality expect to find it in ATI products
- and they have been blown away by Radeon 9700 PRO. Once exposed
to its blistering power, there will simply be no other option
but the Radeon 9700 PRO."
Fujitsu's FMV-W series, featuring the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
and the revolutionary Radeon 9700 PRO, will start shipping
October 21, 2002. Fujitsu will also be offering select models
within the FMV-W series that include ATI's Radeon® 7000 graphics
board.
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About ATI Technologies
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 (GPU) 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 (ATY).
Contact Information
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at http://www.ati.com.
Other ATI Contacts:
Tenille Cuthbertson, Counsellor, BenchMark Porter Novelli,
at (416) 422-7163 or tcuthbertson@bmporternovelli.com
Patti Mikula, Public Relations Specialist, Consumer Products
at (905) 882-2600 Ext. 8809 or pmikula@ati.com
For investor relations support, please contact:
Janet Craig, Director, Investor Relations, ATI Technologies
Inc., at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 2631 or jcraig@ati.com
