Press Release
- 2003
VoodooPC chooses ATI’s Mobility Radeon 9600 for world’s most powerful gaming notebook
Upgradeable, ATI-powered Voodoo Envy M460
Gamebook delivers more than four times the performance of the fastest competitive
DX9 mobile solution
Wednesday July 16, 2003
MARKHAM, ON — Dramatic visual effects,
unmatched performance and vibrant cinematic realism are now available
to notebook users for the first time in North America, as ATI
Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced that
Voodoo Computers Ltd. (“VoodooPC”) has chosen ATI’s
Mobility™ Radeon® 9600 mobile visual processor for
the VoodooPC Envy M460 Gamebook. The VoodooPC Envy M460 Gamebook
features a modular graphics subsystem, which will allow users
to upgrade to next generation graphics processors as they become
available in the future.
The Mobility Radeon 9600 is the first mobile graphics processor
to ship with full hardware support for Microsoft DirectX™ 9.0.
It runs DirectX™ 9.0 graphics at full-speed, with full
image quality and color precision at all times – a requirement
for true-to-life cinematic special effects.
In a performance league of its own, the Voodoo Envy M460 Gamebook
with Mobility Radeon 9600 delivers more than four times the gaming
performance of the fastest competing DirectX™ 9.0 notebooks
in key benchmarks such as the industry-standard Pixel Shader
2.0 test by Futuremark.
“
VoodooPC has chosen ATI to supply video chipsets for our current
line of Envy Gamebooks. ATI’s Mobility Radeon 9600 is an
amazing GPU, and easily meets our strict performance and thermal
requirements. By using ATI’s Mobility™ Radeon® 9600
mobile visual processor, we are able to offer our customers the
most realistic cinematic gaming experience ever. ATI was able
to step up to the plate by supplying VoodooPC with the most compelling
technology available today,” said Rahul Sood, President,
Voodoo Computers Ltd.
“VoodooPC has created a notebook that offers incredible
cinematic imagery, performance and features superior to many
high-end desktop PCs, and is the first to promote a truly upgradeable
solution with a modular graphics subsystem,” said Phil
Eisler, Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Integrated
Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. “Mobility Radeon 9600
once again demonstrates ATI’s ability to bring dramatically
superior new technologies to market in award-winning designs.”
VoodooPC’s Envy M460 Gamebook is powered by ATI’s
Mobility Radeon 9600 mobile visual processor with 64MB DDR-333
RAM, an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor-M running at 2.6
GHz, 512MB RAM, a 60GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-R/RW drive, WIFI
802.11 A&B, and a 15” SXGA+ panel display.
Mobility Radeon 9600 uses an extraordinarily efficient 3D core
delivering 12 pixel shader operations per clock cycle, and is
a multimedia powerhouse with comprehensive hardware acceleration
for encode, decode and de-blocking of MPEG-2 and streaming video
formats. The Mobility Radeon 9600 also extends ATI’s leadership
in notebook graphics power management, giving users both the
longest battery life and highest performance.
With the availability of Mobility Radeon 9600, ATI has extended
its leadership by bringing the highest performance, cinematic
realism and DirectX 9.0 graphics to all segments of the PC market – high-end
and mainstream desktop, IGP and notebook PCs.
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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
processing 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 2002 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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site at http://www.ati.com
For Information:
Chris Hook, Public Relations Manager, Mobile and Integrated Business
Unit at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 8477 or chook@ati.com
Other ATI Contacts:
Derek Baker, Consultant, BenchMark Porter Novelli, at (416) 422-7158
or dbaker@bmporternovelli.com
For investor relations support, please contact:
Janet Craig, Director, Investor Relations, ATI Technologies Inc.,
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