<font color=red>ATI endorses AMD’S HyperTransport™ technology</font>
Industry-standard technology designed to accelerate graphics processing
MARKHAM, Ontario --
ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT), the world’s largest supplier of graphics, video and multimedia solutions, today announced its support for and planned incorporation of AMD’s HyperTransportTM technology into future ATI graphics processor products, thereby helping to establish the technology as a future industry standard.
HyperTransport is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that reduces the number of buses within the system, provides a high-performance link for embedded applications and is designed to enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It enables the chips inside PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 24 times faster than with existing technologies.
“AMD is glad to have ATI as a partner implementing the HyperTransport bus,” said Gabriele Sartori, Director of Technology Evangelism, AMD. “HyperTransport technology’s reduction of bottlenecks in the PC architecture is planned to deliver PC users a new level of gaming and Internet experience. Using our revolutionary high speed link, ATI has the opportunity to further unleash the power of leading-edge processor architectures of the third millennium.”
“ATI fully endorses AMD’s HyperTransport technology and will support its industry standardization through our plans to incorporate it into future products,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing, & General Manager, Desktop Marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. “The HyperTransport technology is an example of the innovative advances we’ve come to expect from AMD, and ATI is continuing to work with them to bring personal computer users an unparalleled graphical experience.”
Company Backgrounds
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Asia and Japan. AMD produces microprocessors, flash memory devices and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of (US) $4.6 billion in 2000. (NYSE: AMD)
Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is the world’s largest supplier of graphics, video and multimedia solutions for personal computer and MAC platforms. The pioneer, innovator and market leader in the graphics industry, ATI provides cutting-edge technologies for the PC, set-top box, e-appliance and game console markets. The Company has more than 1,900 employees supporting customers from its headquarters in Markham, Ontario, Canada, as well as from offices in Barbados, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the United States. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
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Brian Chadderton
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ATI Technologies Inc.
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Sean Cleveland
Public Relations
AMD
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John B. Challinor II APR
Director, Public Relations
ATI Technologies Inc.
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This is HUGE!!! LDT will be the standard IMO
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