To: SBHX who wrote (3346 ) 5/5/1999 9:22:00 AM From: Marc Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 5927
ATI'S RAGE 128 SELECTED FOR GATEWAY'S NEW ESSENTIAL CONSUMER DESKTOP PC - ATI's leading-edge accelerator used on an Intel motherboard in new Gateway PC system - First of a series of design wins for the RAGE 128 with major PC OEMs TORONTO, May 5 /CNW-PRN/ - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today that Gateway has selected ATI's RAGE 128, incorporated on a motherboard manufactured by Intel, for the new Gateway Essential 466 consumer desktop PCs. The new Gateway Essential PCs use the leading-edge ATI RAGE 128 VR chip, in conjunction with the latest Intel 466MHz Celeron processor, to deliver with stunning clarity and quality the performance features and benefits promised by the latest sophisticated graphics and multimedia applications. ATI's RAGE 128 graphics chips have an advanced 3D architecture that produces industry-leading 3D graphics performance. A fully integrated 128-bit graphics and multimedia accelerator that supports up to 16MB of graphics memory, the RAGE 128 VR is the most attractive graphics solution for motherboard implementation currently on the market. In reviewing the feature set of the RAGE 128, the authoritative Microprocessor Report commented: ''With overall performance to match the best 3D chips on the market today and unmatched support for digital video, the RAGE 128 earns our Editor's Choice award for the best combination of features and performance among mainstream graphics accelerators.'' ''The RAGE 128 has been praised by leading computer publications and industry analysts for its remarkable 3D graphics and multimedia ability, '' said Ed Grondahl, vice president of marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. ''With the new Essential PC series, the RAGE 128 will deliver all the best that the latest in 3D entertainment, Internet and education applications can offer the demanding end users of Gateway's newest consumer desktop.'' The industry leading graphics and multimedia features of the ATI RAGE 128 ATI's RAGE 128-based chips have the power to handle with ease advanced visual effects such as alpha blending, fog, video textures, texture lighting, reflections, shadows, LOD biasing, texture morphing, and vivid color rendering -- all needed to run today's increasingly graphics-intensive business, consumer and entertainment applications and development tools. The RAGE 128 VR's integrated motion compensation and iDCT technology produces the best DVD in the industry, providing full screen, full motion high quality playback of DVD/MPEG2 video. ATI's DVD solution delivers equal or even superior performance to competing hardware solutions, but without the need for dedicated and expensive DVD hardware.