ATI/Compaq......................................
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ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY) today announced that Compaq Computer Corporation has chosen ATI's digital flat panel accelerator board, the XPERT(TM) LCD, to power the new digital-ready Presario 5000 and 5100 series of home PCs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It needs a daughter card. C-Cube first showed its daughter card plugged into an ATI board in January.....................
Based on ATI's no-compromise RAGE(TM) LT PRO mobile chip, the XPERT LCD delivers high-performance 3D, 2D and DVD video acceleration to all-digital flat panel and CRT monitors. The XPERT LCD supplies superior 3D acceleration as well as comprehensive 3D support, including a triangle set-up engine, single-pass trilinear filtering, six perspectively correct texturing modes, video texturing, Gouraud and specular shading, and a host of 3D special effects. The XPERT LCD provides full AGP 2X support, including SideBand Addressing (SBA), to display all the massive 3D textures of AGP content on both conventional CRT and DFP flat panel monitors. Able to quickly access large amounts of 3D textures stored in system memory, XPERT LCD's full AGP 2X support delivers extremely detailed textures, resulting in richer and more exciting 3D images. |