Press Release
- 2003
ATI’s Mobility™ Radeon® 9600
selected by
Packard Bell for EasyNote M7 series notebooks
Notebook to deliver industry-leading graphics
and video capabilities to European customers
Wednesday
December 03, 2003
MUNICH / GERMANY - Dramatic visual effects, unmatched performance
and vibrant cinematic realism are now available to Packard Bell
notebook users as ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT)
today announced that the Mobility™ Radeon® 9600 mobile
visual processor is currently shipping in the EasyNote M7 series
notebooks by Packard Bell, one of Europe’s leading notebook
manufacturers.
The Mobility Radeon 9600 is the first mobile graphics processor
to ship with full hardware support for Microsoft DirectXTM 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.
Packard Bell’s EasyNote M7 series notebooks will be powered
by ATI’s Mobility Radeon 9600 mobile visual processor with
64MB DDR RAM, an Intel® Pentium® 4M Processor with a
DVD-R/RW drive, and a 15.1” SXGA+ panel display.
“Packard Bell is a major player in the European market
and its selection of the Mobility Radeon 9600 is a significant
design win for ATI,” said Peter Edinger, Vice President,
ATI Technologies Europe. “Mobility Radeon 9600 is overwhelmingly
the graphics solution of choice for significant industry players,
concluded Mr Edinger.”
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 and notebook PCs.
For more information on ATI’s graphics please visit www.ati.com.
For more information on Packard Bell’s products please
visit www.packardbell.com.
Copyright 2003 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 Inc.
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’sforemost
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 2,200 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
For Information:
Rubeena Hussein, PR Manager Europe, ATI Technologies (Europe) GmbH, phone:
+49 89 66 515 570, rhussein@ati.com
Friederike Weiß, Press Relations Specialist, ATI Technologies (Europe)
GmbH, phone: +49 89 66 515 325, fweiss@ati.com
