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To: Marc who wrote (3354)	5/6/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: MD Bryant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5927

yet another win for ATI. ATI's RAGE(TM) 128 VR high-performance graphics chip selected for Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 8485 Home PC ATI's leading 3D and video accelerator bringing home the latest in graphics and multimedia to HP consumer customers TORONTO, May 6 /CNW/ - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today that the Hewlett-Packard Company has selected ATI's RAGE(TM) 128 graphics chip to power the multimedia and graphic applications of the new HP Pavilion 8485 Home PC. A fully integrated 128-bit graphics and multimedia accelerator, the RAGE 128 VR chip used in the new HP Pavilion PC is the most advanced 3D chip on the market, providing leading performance and such integrated features as built-in DVD hardware acceleration. This level of integration has made the RAGE 128 VR the most ideal chip for motherboard implementation currently on the market. The RAGE 128 VR is matched in the latest HP Pavilion PC with the new Intel(R) Pentium(R) III 450MHz processor, to bring home to the computer enthusiast, multimedia buff and home office user, the latest and best in enhanced 3D and advanced imaging applications. With the RAGE 128 VR, the HP Pavilion 8485 is the perfect home PC to use as a 3D Internet, digital entertainment or advanced gaming computer system, or as a reliable, leading-edge business tool. ''ATI has long supplied high-powered graphics to the HP line of Pavilion PCs,'' said Ed Grondahl, vice president of product marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. ''The selection of the RAGE 128 VR by Hewlett-Packard for the new HP Pavilion 8485 Home PC continues that tradition, and will provide end users with stellar graphics performance, and the absolute best in multimedia visual imaging speed and quality.'' 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. 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 l985, ATI employs more than 1,600 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.