Press Release - Archives 1998

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Toronto, Canada - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY) today announced that its RAGE™ PRO TURBO AGP chip has been chosen by Gateway to power the multimedia and graphic applications of its E-Series managed corporate desktops designed for corporate and institutional use.

ATI's RAGE PRO TURBO AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) graphics chip, fast becoming the industry's standard for graphics and multimedia applications in the corporate space, will bring best-of-class 3D, 2D and video acceleration to the Gateway E-4200 and E-3110 desktop product lines. Gateway E-Series desktop computers are designed to meet the exacting high performance expected of corporate desktop PCs, and the increasingly complex multimedia demands of business and institutional users. The Gateway E-Series seeks to offer corporate and institutional customers the latest in technology, as well as the optimal blend of performance, network manageability and affordability.

"Together, Gateway and ATI are bringing the 3D multimedia revolution to the desktops of Corporate America," said Ed Grondahl, vice president of product marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI is very pleased to work with Gateway in driving forward this revolution in corporate computing."

ATI's RAGE PRO TURBO, the most complete AGP controller on the market
ATI, at the forefront of the AGP revolution, provides the full AGP 2X specification, with SideBand Addressing (SBA), Pipelining and AGP texturing.

AGP dramatically increases the amount of textures that can be displayed on the screen because it allows the use of main system memory for 3D, rather than only the limited memory of a graphics controller. ATI's AGP solutions can handle with ease the massive amounts of visual data and rich 3D and video applications created by AGP. ATI products enable high-performance graphics on all Intel Pentium® II systems with the 440BX and 440LX AGP chipset.

For the corporate end user, the RAGE PRO TURBO chip and ATI's driver software delivers rock-solid reliability and robust delivery of mission critical business applications. ATI's graphics accelerators support corporate network manageability tools such as Desktop Management Interface (DMI), ensuring efficient system management, and reduce the total cost of operation while delivering seamless interoperability, primary concerns for all corporate system administrators. With DMI, IT managers can track, control and update the configuration of individual PC stations from a central point, including the global network upgrading of ATI graphics drivers on all client users. ATI also supports network scalability, because only one driver is required to bridge all network users with an ATI graphics subsystem in a corporate environment, including both low and high-end PCs. In addition, all ATI display drivers are fully Microsoft certified for Windows 95 and NT, and support the PC 98 design specification.

The selection of ATI's accelerators further increases the penetration of RAGE technology into corporate systems, where high performance 3D, fast 2D and video acceleration applications are becoming a standard business requirement. ATI's products will empower corporate users of the Gateway E-series to develop state-of-the-art 3D imaging, corporate Intranet systems and business-winning presentations. The success of ATI with corporate PC OEM manufacturers means ATI's RAGE PRO is driving the emergence of multimedia applications in the business computing space.

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Company 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 1,700 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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