ATI now the worldwide market leader in mobile graphics
From 0 to 37% total market share in under 2 years, and supplier
to the world's top notebook manufacturers
TORONTO, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT)
announced today that ATI is now the world's highest volume supplier of mobile
graphics, following issue of the latest report from Mercury Research.(1)
Mercury Research Q499 results for the graphics market finds ATI is now
the worldwide leader in mobile graphics accelerators, based on rapid market
acceptance of its advanced 3D accelerators. ATI now holds an overall 37%
market share, up substantially from the 30% market share held during Q399.
During Q499, ATI shipped almost 2.7 million mobile graphics accelerators.
With the recent addition of Toshiba as a customer, ATI is now the mobile
graphics vendor to the world's leading notebook OEMs, including IBM, Compaq,
Dell, Fujitsu, NEC, Acer, Apple and Gateway. Mercury Research expects the
notebook market to continue to strongly gain momentum, with 17% year over year
growth between 2000 and 2004.(2)
"ATI's market leadership of the mobile graphics field has been achieved
in a very short time by doing what the company does best: building on our
computer graphics excellence, focusing on adding value for a new market
segment, and excelling at execution," said KY Ho, President and CEO, ATI
Technologies Inc. "We will continue to exploit our unique set of strengths as
we move progressively into new markets beyond the PC."
Committed to market segment leadership, ATI has progressively narrowed
the performance gap between desktop and mobile graphics. ATI's latest mobile
graphics accelerator, the RAGE Mobility 128, has been introduced within six
months of its desktop equivalent, the RAGE 128 PRO, ATI's latest graphics
chip.
Since shipping its first mobile graphics accelerator in 1998, ATI has
quickly become the dominant leader in the mobile graphics market based on the
strength of its product offering. ATI's current mobile family of products
includes the RAGE LT PRO, the world's first 3D AGP notebook accelerator; the
RAGE Mobility family of products -- RAGE Mobility P with integrated iDCT, RAGE
Mobility M with 4MB of integrated memory, RAGE Mobility M1 with 8MB integrated
memory; and the new RAGE Mobility 128, the first mobile graphics chip to offer
complete desktop-equivalent performance and features.
(1) Source: Mercury Research Estimates for CYQ4 1999, "PC Graphics Chip
Sets and Technologies '99."
(2) Source: Mercury Research graphics report, Q3 1999.
Corporate Profile
ATI Technologies Inc., the world's largest supplier of 3D graphics and
multimedia technology, designs, manufactures and markets innovative and
award-winning multimedia solutions and graphics components for the personal
computer, set-top box and consumer electronics appliance markets. An ISO 9002
company, ATI is the world's leading supplier of video and 2D/3D graphics
accelerators to OEM and retail customers. Founded in 1985, ATI employs more
than 1,800 people at headquarters in Thornhill, Ontario, and in offices in the
United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Barbados,
Malaysia, Japan and Hong Kong. ATI is a public company whose shares trade on
the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
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