Press Release
ATI Bags Top UK System Integrators
ATI's Radeon® 9700 PRO proves huge hit with major UK System Integrators
London, UK - 26, November 2002 - ATI Technologies
Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced
the Radeon® 9700 PRO is leading the graphics
industry with a barrage of design wins. ATI's
groundbreaking Radeon® 9700 PRO visual processing
unit (GPU) is driving the visual revolution
with numerous tier one and custom PC makers
in the UK including Time, Evesham, MESH, Multivision,
Systemax, Dixons and NEC.
Launched earlier this year, the Radeon 9700
PRO has blown all competition out of the water
with its cinematic-quality images and breakneck
speeds, thrilling gamers and PC enthusiasts.
"The profusion of design wins from the world's
top computer manufacturers proves ATI hit the
mark with enthusiasts and mainstream consumers
with the Radeon 9700 PRO," said Peter Edinger,
Vice President and Managing Director, ATI Technologies
(Europe) GmbH. "We're working closely with each
of our partners to deliver a combination of
the most feature rich and performance driven
graphics products currently available in the
market - and what's more we're doing it on time!",
concluded Mr Edinger.
"ATI's new products are meeting with massive
success," said Dr. Jon Peddie, President of
Jon Peddie Research, the leading analyst firm
in graphics and multimedia. "The company has
really hit the mark with its Radeon 9700 product
- and obviously customers are happy with what
they see. ATI's products garnered a large number
of the new design wins for this season from
OEMs and add-in-board manufacturers world-wide.
It's a good indicator that things are going
well for ATI, and the industry."
- The world's first GPU, the Radeon 9700 PRO,
can be found in the following:
- MESH - Matrix
XP 2700+ RD97 (A-List)
- Time - Platina series
(730, 830, 930)
- Evesham - Evolution 2500R97
and 2800 A-List
- Systemax - Inspire 7342
- NEC - PowerMate XL4 and XL5
- The Radeon 9000
PRO and/or Radeon 9000 can be found in the following:
- MESH - All of the Elite range and several
high spec Matrix models
- Time - Platina series
(430, 530, 630)
- Multivision - Vision Eclipse
T3
- Systemax
- Inspire 7342, 7137
- Reliance 5400, 5420, 5460
- Dixons - Dixons Advent 3829BTO
- Packard Bell - Packard Bell range of desktop PCs
ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO boasts a number of key
features that power an extreme level of graphics
quality and performance, triumphing over every
other product on the market. Its architecture
features eight fully-programmable parallel rendering
pipelines, full floating point architecture, Microsoft®
DirectX® 9 support, and AGP 8X support.
About the Company
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 delivers leading-edge
performance solutions for the full range of PC
and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation,
set-top box, 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).
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