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** ATI Developer Relations Newsletter
- Winter 2001 **
Contents
1.0 New Products
Radeon® VE - specifically designed for the mainstream market
Mobility 128 M4 - Mobility M4 AGP 4X component announced for notebooks
2.0 Software Development Kits / Tools
Curved PN Triangles
ATI N-Patch Plug-in for 3D Studio MAX R3
Radeon SDK and DirectX 8.0
Meltdown 2000 Presentation, Volumetric Textures and NPatches
3.0 Linux Developments
Radeon XFree86 4.0.x support
4.0 ATI On-Board
ATI Design Wins
5.0 ATI Announcements
ATI Press Releases
6.0 Contacting Us ** NEW PHONE/FAX NUMBERS **
Developer Support
1.0 New Products
Radeon VE
See http://www.ati.com/products/radeon7000/radeonve/index.html for technical specifications.
The Radeon VE chip is a mainstream derivative of the award winning Radeon Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Radeon VE leverages many of the strengths of the high performance Radeon; GPU, but has been specifically designed for the mainstream market.
- Radeon VE has excellent features and performance for home and office with flexible multi-display support, eye-catching 32-bit true color, comprehensive support for all popular operating systems, DVD playback and integrated TV-output support.
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- Flexible multi-display support enabling any combination of VGA, digital flat panel and TV with Hydravision Multiple Monitor Management Software
- Supports DirectX 8.0® and OpenGL®
- DVI interface with integrated TMDS for digital flat panel support
- DVD playback with integrated motion compensation and iDCT
- Analog video output support for both composite and S-Video
- Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 1920 x 1200
- AGP universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
- 32MB of powerful double data rate memory
- 3D Acceleration Features
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- HyperZ™ technology
- Pixel Tapestry™ architecture
- Video Immersion™ technology
- Twin Cache Architecture
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing (3 textures per
clock cycle)
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Texture Cache
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Texture Decompression support under DirectX®
(DXTC) and OpenGL®
- Specular Highlights Perspectively Correct Texture
Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment
mapping
- Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)
Mobility 128 - Mobility M4 AGP 4X component for notebooks
Technical specifications - http://www.ati.com/products/mobility128/index.html
Product announcement -
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2000/4330.html
- At a Glance:
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- Single components graphics subsystem
- Brings RAGE 128 PRO technology to Notebooks
- Supports two completely independent UXGA digital
displays
- Improved visual quality 2D/3D rendering
- Enhanced TV-out - consumer electronics quality
- Comprehensive support for DirectX (including
DX6 texture compression) and Open GL API's
- True 32-bit color support and improved 16-bit
dithering
- ATI's innovative AES Power Management
- extends battery life
- ACPI compliant
- meets Intel Power Guidelines
- Supports Win9x, Win NT, Win2000 and other major
OS's
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2.0 Software Development Kits / Tools
For the most current programming information please see http://www.ati.com/online/sdk.
Curved PN Triangles
The paper "Curved PN Triangles" by Alex Vlachos et al will be presented at the 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics on March 21st 2001. The paper outlines the motivations and development of N-Patches (aka PN Triangles), which are a part of DirectX®. We have a preprint available. Also, be sure to check out the N-Patch Preview Plug-In for 3D Studio MAX R3.
The Curved PN Triangles preprint is available at http://www.ati.com/developer/CurvedPNTriangles.pdf
ATI N-Patch Plug-in for 3D Studio MAX R3
N-Patches are a higher-order surface primitive developed by ATI for DirectX® 8. N-Patches are Bezier triangles whose control meshes are derived from the position and normal data associated with a given triangle. On implementations which support N-Patches, the tesselation is done on-chip.
For more information on the ATI N-Patch Plug-in see http://www.ati.com/developer/sdk/NPatch/NPatchPlugin.html.
Radeon® SDK and DirectX® 8.0
See the Radeon® SDK Version 1.3 including DirectX® 8 samples and information at http://www.ati.com/developer/sdk/RadeonSDK/license.html.
Highlights:
- New/Updated Docs
- Chip Specs and API Usage
- Advanced Tutorials
Meltdown 2000 Presentation, Volumetric Textures and NPatches
- Volume Textures
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- New APIs
- Applications - 3D Light maps, Volume Visualization,
Detail Textures, BRDF Lookups
- Volume Textures in entertainment
- N-Patches
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- Motivation
- New APIs
- Mathematical description
3.0 Linux / XFree86 Developments
The most recent information on ATI Linux support is found at http://www.ati.com/developer/linux.html.
The most recent CVS version of XFree86 contains support for Radeon 2D, Rage 128 Pro 2D, 3D and overlay. 3D support for Radeon which is scheduled to be made available Q1 2001.
4.0 ATI On-Board
ATI has announced Design Wins with Dell, Apple, IBM, Compaq, Gateway, Micron, NEC, Acer, Toshiba, HP, and Sony.
See http://www.ati.com/onboard/onboard.html
for more information and check here often for new design
wins in all our target markets.
ATI Design Wins
Notebook Systems - http://www.ati.com/onboard/index.html
Desktop Systems - http://www.ati.com/onboard/index.html
Set-Top Box Systems - http://www.ati.com/onboard/index.html
Radeon® Design Wins -
http://www.ati.com/onboard/index.html
ACER Aspire 6600 consumer desktop systems
ACER Power Mac™ G4 & Power Mac G4 Cube systems (Radeon 32MB DDR)
COMPAQ Deskpro EX and Compaq Deskpro EXS desktop systems
DELL Dimension XPS B system (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
DELL Dimension 4100 systems (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
GATEWAY Select sb1100 (Radeon 32MB)
GATEWAY Select 1000 (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
GATEWAY Performance 933 (Radeon 32MB)
GATEWAY GP Series 800 (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
GATEWAY GP Series 866 (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
GATEWAY GP Series 933 (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
GATEWAY GP Series 1000 (Radeon 32MB, Optional)
IBM NetVista A60i (All-in-Wonder Radeon)
5.0 ATI Announcements
For the latest Press Releases see http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2000/index.html
Product Announcements / News
December 7, 2000
ATI's RAGE Mobility™-M1 graphics chip selected for Panasonic's new line of multimedia notebook PCs
December 5, 2000
ATI's All-in-Wonder® Radeon® brings unmatched graphics and home entertainment capabilities to new desktop system
ATI's Radeon® card included in IBM's NetVista™ A60i
November 29, 2000
ATI's Mobility™ M4 AGP 4X graphics component chosen for select Hitachi desktops
Mobile accelerator features in desktop PCs
November 29, 2000
ATI announces Technology Access Program (TAP) to accelerate 3rd party development of set-top boxes
First software partners are Metro Link, Inc. and BSQUARE Corporation
ATI's SET TOP WONDER™ HDTV reference kit also available to qualified partners
November 27, 2000
Dell selects ATI's Mobility™ M4 chip for Inspiron™ 8000 and Latitude™ C800 notebook PCs
November 27, 2000
ATI selected for three new Fujitsu consumer mobile PCs for Japan market
ATI's RAGE Mobility™ family of notebook graphics and video chips offers price/performance leadership in every segment
November 21, 2000
RAGE Mobility™ 128™ selected by Compaq for Presario 1800 Notebook Series
ATI continues consumer notebook dominance with RAGE Mobility 128 providing the fastest graphics and increased multimedia experience for the fast-growing consumer notebook segment
November 9, 2000
ATI's Radeon® family of products delivers the most comprehensive support for the advanced graphics features of DirectX 8.0™
DirectX 8.0 delivers next level of realism for games slated to be released over the next 6 months
Owners of the Radeon family of graphics cards will be able to upgrade their drivers to take advantage of the amazing features of DirectX 8.0
November 9, 2000
ATI announces the Radeon® VE - the $129 graphics upgrade card delivers advanced Hydravision™ multi-monitor support for the mainstream market
Most advanced and economical multi-monitor support available today in a mainstream graphics card
November 9, 2000
ATI achieves major industry milestone: ships 10 millionth RAGE Mobility™ graphics chip
ATI's RAGE Mobility™ family of products sets industry record, shipping nearly one million 3D units per month
Company well positioned for aggressive growth in mobile graphics market
November 6, 2000
ATI to support Microsoft's new DirectX VA API across the entire line of current ATI products
Open programming interface will expand the market for ATI video acceleration hardware and software products
October 30, 2000
ATI announces Mobility M4™ AGP 4X graphics component for notebooks
ATI, the AGP leader, first graphics company to ship AGP 4X component for notebook PCs
Mobility M4™ already selected for recently announced Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook PC
October 26, 2000
ATI's Radeon® 32MB DDR board chosen by Dell as an option for Dimension 4100 desktop systems
ATI's Radeon® technology gaining ground in the desk top market
October 24, 2000
ATI mobile graphics and video chip selected by Toshiba for its Satellite® 1715XCDS value notebook PC
ATI, the world's leading mobile graphics supplier, brings high levels of realism to the value notebook market
October 23, 2000
ATI's RAGE Mobility 128™ selected for the Dell Inspiron™ 4000 and Dell Latitude™ C600 notebook PCs
ATI's mobile solutions' great success continues in notebook PC market
October 18, 2000
ATI mobile graphics to power the Panasonic ProNote value notebook PC
First mobile PC design win with Panasonic, one of the world's largest electronic products manufacturers
October 16, 2000
ATI's All-in-Wonder® Radeon® graphics and multimedia board selected for new Acer Aspire 6600 consumer desktop systems
Latest design win for ATI's unmatched All-in-Wonder® Radeon®
October 4, 2000
ATI's Radeon® wins top award at System Builder Summit
September 26, 2000
ATI's RAGE Mobility 128™ chip transforms Apple's iBook into a gamer's delight and a multimedia powerhouse
Apple's iBook offers no compromise ATI graphics and hardware DVD playback for home and education users
September 25, 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 15, 2000
ATI's Radeon® board for the Mac platform selected for Apple's new Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube systems
Radeon® boards a highly affordable upgrade option for latest G4 systems; ATI supplying the graphics across the latest line of Apple desktop systems
September 14, 2000
ATI's All-in-Wonder® Radeon® graphics and multimedia board selected for NetVista consumer desktop systems
ATI's unmatched All-in-Wonder® Radeon® redefines the home PC
September 13, 2000
ATI's RAGE Mobility™ graphics selected for new ThinkPad X Series notebook PCs
Design win extends ATI's penetration in fast growing, ultra portable notebook PC market segment
August 25, 2000
ATI to deploy AGP 8X specification to drive 3D to new levels of realism
August 24, 2000
ATI graphics chip technology selected by Nintendo for new video game console
ATI enters burgeoning home video game entertainment market with graphics chip technology for the Nintendo GAMECUBE™
August 23, 2000
ATI's RAGE Mobility 128™ graphics chip selected by Dell for the new Inspiron 5000e notebook PC
The world's fastest, most multimedia feature-rich mobile graphics processor.
6.0 Contacting Us
E-mail: devrel@ati.com
Hotline: (905) 882-2636 ** NEW **
Fax: (905) 475-3930 ** NEW **
Developer Relations
ATI Technologies Inc.
75 Tiverton Court
Unionville, Ontario
Canada L3R 9S3
ATI Developer Relations Web Site http://www.ati.com/developer/index.html.
Head Office, Sales and Marketing Phone: (905) 882-2600
World Wide Web: http://www.ati.com/
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