Press Release
- 2004
Sony Chooses ATI’s Radeon® X600 XT
Graphics for Eight PCs
Tuesday August
17, 2004
MARKHAM, Ontario – ATI Technologies
Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) furthers its clear leadership of
the PCI Express graphics market with today’s announcement
that Sony has selected the Radeon® X600 XT for eight PC Models
within North America and Japan.
With advanced image quality and performance enhancing technologies,
the Radeon X600 products bring native 16 lane PCI Express, full
DirectX® 9 support, 128-bit memory interface and four extreme
parallel 3D rendering pixel pipelines to Sony’s PCs.
“Sony is among the many world-leading companies to choose
ATI’s native PCI Express graphics,” said Rick Bergman,
Senior Vice President Marketing and General Manager, Desktop,
ATI Technologies. “Our native PCI Express interface continues
to be a major selling point as our customers want graphics that
were designed from the ground up with PCI Express in mind.”
Customers in Japan will be able to experience the power of ATI’s
Radeon® X600 XT in Sony’s VGC-RA70P, VGC-RA70PL9, VGC-RA60,
VGC-RA60L7, VGC-RA70PS and VGC-RA70S models. In North America,
Sony’s VGC-RA810G and VGC-RA910G models will feature Radeon® X600
XT graphics.
For more information about the ATI powered Sony PCs, visit www.sony.com
or www.sony.jp. For information about ATI’s PCI Express
graphics, including the Radeon® X800, Radeon® X600 and
Radeon® X300 series, visit www.ati.com.
Copyright 2004 ATI
Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and ATI product and product feature
names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc.
All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks
of their respective owners. Features, pricing, availability and specifications
are subject to change without notice.
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 2003 revenues in excess of US $1.3 billion, ATI has
more than 2,700 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI
common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange
(ATY).
Contact Information
For media or industry analyst support, visit our Web site at
http://www.ati.com .
Other ATI Contacts:
Trevor Campbell, Director, Porter Novelli Canada, at (416) 422-7202
or trevor.campbell@porternovelli.com
For media inquiries:
Patti Mikula, Public Relations Manager, 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 janet@ati.com
