Mar 24, 1997 ATI Demos Fast Graphics For Pentium II
(03/24/97; 1:00 p.m. EST)
By Ken Yamada, Computer Reseller News
TORONTO-- ATI Technologies said it plans to give the first public demonstration Monday of accelerated graphics port technology designed for Pentium II.
ATI will demonstrate its AGP product, called 3D Rage Pro, at Intel's Visual Computing Day in San Jose, Calif. The technology will operate at 133 MHz, or twice the bandwidth of existing chips limited to 66 MHz.
According to Niles Burbank, ATI product manager for desktop graphics, Accelerated Graphics Port, or AGP, will enable faster, more lively graphics on PCs. ATI has been working closely with Intel and Microsoft on developing AGP.
Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., said it plans to ship AGP on products in the second half of 1997. The technology initially will be built into high-end PC systems. Intel expects AGP to become a standard component of the majority of PCs shipped in 1998.
AGP relies on a graphics controller chip, a group of companion chips called chipsets and the processing power of Intel's planned Pentium II microprocessor.
ATI's new chip for AGP includes features such as a floating-point setup engine, 4 kilobytes of texture cache and enhanced MPEG II motion compensation. ATI has begun sampling 3D Rage Pro components and boards to original equipment manufacturers, according to the company. |
