ATI Technologies Inc.
Fate	Merged into AMD
Founded	1985
Defunct	2006
Location	Markham, Ontario, Canada
Industry	Semiconductors
Products	Graphics cards Graphics processing units Motherboard chipsets Video capture cards
Key people	Adrian Hartog, president, AMD Canada Rick Bergman, Sr. VP and GM

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ATI was a fabless semiconductor company conducting in-house research and development and outsourcing the manufacturing and assembly of its products. A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of Hardware devices implemented on Semiconductor The phrase research and development (also R and D or more often R&D) according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers Outsourcing is Subcontracting a process such as product design or Manufacturing, to a Third-party company Its main competitor was NVIDIA in the graphics and handheld market. The multinational NVIDIA Corporation ( (ɪnˈvɪdiə specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for Workstations The flagship product, the Radeon series of graphics cards, directly competes with NVIDIA's GeForce. ATI Radeon is a brand of Graphics processing units (GPU that since 2000 has been manufactured by ATI Technologies and subsequently AMD and is GeForce is a Brand of PC graphics processor units (GPUs designed by Nvidia. The two companies' dominance of the market forced other manufacturers into niche roles.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 2.1 Computer graphics chipsets 2.2 Personal computer platforms and chipsets 2.3 Multimedia and Digital TV solutions 2.4 Console graphics solutions 2.5 Handheld chipsets 2.6 High Performance Computing 3 ATI graphics drivers 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

History

The company was founded as Array Technologies Incorporated in 1985 by immigrants Kwok Yuen Ho^[1] of Guangzhou, and Benny Lau and Lee Ka Lau of Hong Kong. Guangzhou ( Jyutping: Gwong²zau¹; Yale: Gwóngjàu) is the Capital and a Sub-provincial city Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders ^[2] Working primarily in the OEM field, it produced integrated graphics cards for large PC manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM is typically a company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product or sells the product of the second company International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a US-American Electronics company based in West Chester Pennsylvania By 1987, it had grown into an independent graphics card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder graphic card product lines under its brand that year. ^[3] In May 1991, the company released Mach8, its first product able to process graphics without the CPU. Mach32 debuted in 1992 and offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI acceleration performance. ATI Technologies Inc. went public in 1993 with stock listed at NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange.

In 1994, the Mach 64 accelerator debuted, powering the Graphics Xpression and Graphics Pro Turbo. It offered hardware support for YUV-to-RGB color space conversion in addition to hardware zoom, early techniques of hardware-based video acceleration. A Color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way Colors can be represented as Tuples of numbers typically as three or four values or color components

ATI introduced its first combination of 2D and 3D accelerator under the name 3D Rage. 3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer The ATI RAGE is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration and 3D acceleration. This chip was based on the Mach 64 but it featured elemental 3D acceleration. The ATI Rage line powered almost the entire range of ATI graphics products. In particular, the Rage Pro was one of the first viable 2D-plus-3D alternatives to 3Dfx's 3D-only Voodoo chipset. The ATI RAGE is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration and 3D acceleration. 3dfx Interactive was a company that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D Graphics processing units and later Graphics cards After dominating the field 3D acceleration in the Rage line advanced from the basic functionality within the initial 3D Rage to a more advanced DirectX 6.0 accelerator in the 1999 Rage 128. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of Application programming interfaces (APIs for handling tasks related to Multimedia, especially Game programming and The ATI RAGE is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration and 3D acceleration.

The All-in-Wonder product line introduced in 1996 was the first combination of integrated graphics chip with TV tuner card and the first chip that enabled to display computer graphics on a TV set. A TV tuner card is a computer component that allows Television signals to be received by a Computer. ^[4] The cards featured 3D acceleration powered by ATI's second generation 3D Rage II, 64-bit 2D performance, TV-quality video acceleration, analog video capture, TV tuner functionality, flicker-free TV-out and stereo TV audio reception.

ATI made an entrance into the mobile computing sector by introducing 3D-graphics acceleration to laptops in 1996. A laptop computer, also known as a notebook computer, is a small Personal computer designed for mobile use. The Mobility product line had to meet requirements different from desktop PC, such as minimized power usage, reduced heat output, TMDS output capabilities for laptop screens, and maximized integration. Transition Minimized Differential Signaling ( TMDS) is a technology for transmitting high-speed serial data and is used by the DVI and HDMI video interfaces In 1997, ATI acquired Tseng Labs's graphics assets, which included 40 engineers. Tseng Laboratories Inc (also known as Tseng Labs or TLI) was a maker of Graphics chips and controllers for IBM PC compatibles, based in An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering.

The Radeon line of graphics products was unveiled in 2000. The initial Radeon graphics processing unit was an all-new design with DirectX 7. 0 3D acceleration, video acceleration, and 2D acceleration. Technology developed for a specific Radeon generation could be built in varying levels of features and performance in order to provide products suited for the entire market range. The range stretches from the high-end Radeon HD 2000/3000 series, which support DirectX 10. The Graphics processing unit (GPU codenamed R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series and the FireGL 2007 series Video 1 Unified shader model technology, to Mobility Radeon products for laptops, and to the budget series, such as Radeon X1300. Unified Shader Model term is used to describe two similar but separate concepts Unified Shading Architecture and Unified Shader Model ATI's "R520" core (codenamed Fudo) is the foundation for a line of DirectX 9 Later generations expanded this to include flexibility for easy construction of both integrated and discrete parts from the same technology. ^[5]

In 2000, ATI acquired ArtX, which engineered the Flipper graphics chip used in the Nintendo GameCube game console. ArtX was a company formed in 1997 by a group of engineers from Silicon Graphics, Inc The, often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo 's fourth home Video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. The, often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo 's fourth home Video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. They have also created a modified version of the chip (codenamed Hollywood) for the successor of the GameCube, the Wii. Hollywood is the name of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU used in Nintendo's Wii Video game console. The, often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo 's fourth home Video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. ATI was contracted by Microsoft to create the graphics core (codenamed Xenos) for the Xbox 360. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer The Xbox 360 is the second Video game console produced by Microsoft, and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS. Later in 2005, ATI acquired Terayon's Cable Modem Silicon Intellectual Property strengthening their lead in the consumer digital television market. ^[6] K. Y. Ho remained as Chairman of the Board until he retired in November 2005. Dave Orton replaced him as the President and CEO of the organization. David E Orton is the former CEO of ATI Technologies. He joined ATI as a result of an acquisition of ArtX, a high-tech SME, in April 2000 where A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator

On July 24, 2006, AMD and ATI announced a plan to merge together in a deal valued at $5. 4 billion. The merger closed on October 25, 2006. ^[7] The acquisition consideration included over $2 billion financed from a loan and 56 million shares of AMD stock. ^[8] ATI retained its name, logos and trademarks. ATI's then CEO Dave Orton was made the Executive Vice President of Visual and Media Businesses. ^[9]

It was reported that in December 2006 AMD/ATI, along with its main rival NVIDIA, received subpoenas from the United States Department of Justice regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry. For animal rights group see Justice Department (JD The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ) is a Cabinet department United States antitrust law is the body of Laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior (monopoly and Unfair business practices. ^[10]

In July 2007, AMD announced the resignation of Dave Orton. ATI, a subsidiary of AMD, is called the Graphics Product Group (GPG) inside the company. ^[11] The top-level management of the Graphics Product Group consists of Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager and Adrian Hartog, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Electronics Group. Both report to Héctor de Jesús Ruiz, CEO and Chairman of AMD. ^[12]

Products

In addition to developing high-end GPUs (originally called a VPU, visual processing unit, by ATI) for PCs, ATI also designs embedded versions for laptops (Mobility Radeon), PDAs and mobile phones (Imageon), integrated motherboards (Radeon IGP), set-top boxes (Xilleon) and others. The Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) is a line of media processors developed by ATI providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices A set-top box (STB or set-top unit (STU is a device that connects to a Television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into The AMD Xilleon video processor (previously branded as ATI Xilleon) is a 32-bit System-on-a-chip MIPS processor for use in

ATI promotes some of its products with the fictional "Ruby" female character, a "mercenary for hire. "^[13] Computer animated videos produced by RhinoFX about Ruby on a mission (being a sniper, saboteur, hacker and so on) are displayed at large technology shows such as CeBIT, CES. CeBIT ( Ce ntrum der B üro- und I nformations' t' echnik; German for "Centre of Office and Information technology" is the The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES is a Trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored

Computer graphics chipsets

• Graphics Solutions - Series of 8-bit ISA cards with MDA, Hercules and CGA compatibility. Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to ISA) was a Computer bus standard for IBM compatible computers The Monochrome Display Adapter ( MDA, also MDA card, Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) introduced in 1981 was IBM The Hercules Graphics Card ( HGC) was a computer Graphics controller which through its popularity became a widely supported display standard. The Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA) originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter Later versions added EGA support. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA is the IBM PC Computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of graphics
• EGA / VGA Wonder - IBM "EGA/VGA-compatible" display adapters (1987)
• Mach Series - Introduced ATI's first 2D GUI "Windows Accelerator". International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA is the IBM PC Computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of graphics The term Video Graphics Array ( VGA) refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, but through its widespread Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The Mach line was a series of 2D graphics accelerators for personal computers developed by ATI Technologies. 2D computer graphics is the Computer -based generation of Digital images mdashmostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models text and digital As the series evolved, GUI acceleration improved dramatically and early video acceleration appeared.
• Rage Series - ATI's first 2D and 3D accelerator chips. The ATI RAGE is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration and 3D acceleration. The series evolved from rudimentary 3D with 2D GUI acceleration and MPEG-1 capability, to a highly competitive Direct3D 6 accelerator with then "best-in-class" DVD (MPEG2) acceleration. MPEG-1 was an early Standard for Lossy compression of Video and audio. Direct3D is part of Microsoft 's DirectX API. Direct3D is only available for Microsoft's various Windows Operating systems ( Windows MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information" The various chips were very popular with OEMs of the time. An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM is typically a company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product or sells the product of the second company The Rage II was used in the first ATI All-In-Wonder multi-function video card, and more advanced All-In-Wonders based on Rage series GPUs followed. The All-in-Wonder (also abbreviated to AIW) was a combination Graphics card / TV tuner card designed by ATI Technologies. (1995–2004)
  • Rage Mobility - Designed for use in low-power environments, such as notebooks. The ATI RAGE is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration and 3D acceleration. These chips were functionally similar to their desktop counterparts, but had additions such as advanced power management, LCD interfaces, and dual monitor functionality. Power management is a feature of some electrical appliances especially copiers, computers and computer Peripherals such as monitors and Multi-monitor, also known as Multi-display, Multi-head and Dual-Monitor are synonymous terms referring to the use of multiple physical display

• Radeon Series - Launched in 2000, the Radeon line is ATI's brand for their consumer 3D accelerator add-in cards. ATI Radeon is a brand of Graphics processing units (GPU that since 2000 has been manufactured by ATI Technologies and subsequently AMD and is 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The original Radeon DDR was ATI's first DirectX 7 3D accelerator, introducing their first hardware T&L engine. Transform clipping and lighting ( T&L or sometimes TCL) is a term used in Computer graphics. ATI often produced 'Pro' versions with higher clock speeds, and sometimes an extreme 'XT' version, and even more recently 'XT Platinum Edition (PE)' and 'XTX' versions. The Radeon series was the basis for many ATI All-In-Wonder boards.
  • Mobility Radeon - A series of power-optimized versions of Radeon graphics chips for use in laptops. ATI Radeon is a brand of Graphics processing units (GPU that since 2000 has been manufactured by ATI Technologies and subsequently AMD and is They introduced innovations such as modularized RAM chips, DVD (MPEG2) acceleration, notebook GPU card sockets, and "PowerPlay" power management technology. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is ATI PowerPlay is a collective name for a set of technologies implemented in a series graphics adapters manufactured by ATI, including Mobility Radeon, Imageon
  • ATI CrossFire - This technology was ATI's response to NVIDIA's SLI platform. The multinational NVIDIA Corporation ( (ɪnˈvɪdiə specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for Workstations Scalable Link Interface ( SLI) is a brand name for a multi- GPU solution developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce It allowed, by using a secondary video card and a dual PCI-E motherboard based on an ATI Crossfire-compatible chipset, the ability to combine the power of the two video cards to increase performance through a variety of different rendering options. There is an option for additional PCI-E video card plugging into the third PCI-E slot for gaming physics, or another option to do physics on the second video card. ^[14]
• FireGL - Launched in 2001, following ATI's acquisition of FireGL Graphics from Diamond Multimedia. The ATI FireGL range of Graphics cards are a series fabricated by ATI for use with CAD (Computer Aided Design and DCC (Digital Content Creation Diamond Multimedia is a company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology Workstation CAD/CAM video card, based on the Radeon series.
• FireMV - For workstations, featuring multi-view, a technology for the need of multiple displays for workstations with 2D acceleration only, usually based on the low-end products of the Radeon series. The FireMV graphics card is marketed as a Multi-Display 2D video card with 3D capabilities same as the low-end Radeon graphics products

Personal computer platforms and chipsets

See also: Comparison of ATI chipsets and Comparison of AMD chipsets

• IGP 3x0, Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP - ATI's first chipsets. This is a comparison of chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies. This is a comparison of chipsets sold under the brand AMD, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets The Radeon R100 is the first generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies. The Radeon R100 is the first generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies. Included a DirectX 7-level 3D graphics processor.
• 9100 IGP - 2nd generation system chipset. The Radeon R200 is the second generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies. IXP250 southbridge. It was notable for being ATI's first complete motherboard chipset, including an ATI-built southbridge. It included an updated DirectX 8. 1 class graphics processor. ^[15]
• Xpress 200/200P - PCI Express-based Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 chipset. The Radeon Xpress 200 is a computer Chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors ( Socket 939 and 754) as well Not to be confused with PCI-X, a different bus architecture Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, officially abbreviated as PCI-E The Athlon 64 is an eighth-generation AMD64 architecture Microprocessor produced by AMD, released on The Pentium 4 brand refers to Intel 's line of single- core mainstream desktop and Laptop Central processing units (CPUs introduced Supports SATA as well as integrated graphics with DirectX 9. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of Application programming interfaces (APIs for handling tasks related to Multimedia, especially Game programming and 0 support, the first integrated graphics chipset to do so. ^[16]
• Xpress 3200 - similar to Xpress 200, but designed for optimal CrossFire performance. The Xpress 3200 is a new revision of the Xpress 200 computer Chipset released by ATI. The Radeon Xpress 200 is a computer Chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors ( Socket 939 and 754) as well
  • AMD 580X CrossFire chipset - AMD edition of Xpress 3200 renamed, due to AMD acquisition of ATI. AMD 580 chipset series is a computer Chipset series designed by AMD subsidairy ATI Technologies, for the AMD processors
• 690G, Xpress 1250 - for AMD and Intel platforms. The AMD 690 chipset series is a Chipset family developed and manufactured by AMD subsidiary ATI for the AMD platform The AMD 690 chipset series is a Chipset family developed and manufactured by AMD subsidiary ATI for the AMD platform Includes DirectX 9 graphics processor improved over Xpress 200 ^[17] and industry first native HDMI implementation on motherboards.
• AMD 700 chipset series - exclusively for AMD processors, this is an upcoming chipset family supporting Phenom processors and Quad FX enthusiast platform (790FX), enthusiast chipset (790X), IGP (780G, 740G) and single graphics card variants (770, 740) aimed at mainstream and value computing systems available. The AMD 700 chipset series (also called as AMD 7-Series Chipsets) is a set of current and upcoming chipsets designed by ATI for AMD Phenom processors Phenom (pronounced as IPA/finɒm/ as in the word phenomenon) is the AMD desktop processor line based on the K10 ( not "K10h") microarchitecture The AMD Quad FX platform is an AMD platform targeted at enthusiasts which allows users to plug two Socket F Athlon 64 FX or 2-way Opteron

In addition to the above chipset ATI has announced that a deal has been struck with CPU and Motherboard manufacturers as of 2005, particularly Asus and Intel, to create onboard 3D Graphics solutions for Intel's new range of motherboards that will be released with their range of Intel Pentium M-based desktop processors, the Intel Core and Intel Core 2 processors, the D101GGC and D101GGC2 chipset (codenamed "Grand County" ^[18]) based on the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. A motherboard is the central or primary Printed circuit board (PCB making up a complex electronic system such as a modern Computer or Laptop ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (Asus () ( is a Taiwan -based multinational company that produces Motherboards Graphics cards Optical drives Overview The Pentium M represented a new and radical departure for Intel as it was not a low-power version of the desktop-oriented Pentium 4, but instead a heavily modified The Core brand refers to Intel 's 32-bit mobile Dual-core X86 CPUs that derived from the Pentium M branded processors The Core 2 brand refers to a range of Intel 's consumer 64-bit dual-core and 2x2 MCM quad-core CPUs with the X86-64 instruction set The Radeon Xpress 200 is a computer Chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors ( Socket 939 and 754) as well However, high-end boards with integrated graphics processor (IGP) will still use Intel GMA integrated graphics processors. The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, or GMA, is Intel 's current line of graphics processors (GPUs built into various Motherboard chipsets The deal with Intel was deemed to be officially ended with the purchase of ATI Technologies from AMD in July 2006, with Intel announcing SiS IGP chipset (D201GLY chipset, codenamed "Little Valley") for entry-level desktop platform, replacing the "Grand County" series chipsets. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS Traditional Chinese: 矽統科技) is a company that manufactures among other things motherboard chipsets

Multimedia and Digital TV solutions

• All-In-Wonder series - A series of multimedia graphics cards which incorporating TV tuner and Radeon family graphics cards onto one add-in card, current developments stopped and discontinued. The All-in-Wonder (also abbreviated to AIW) was a combination Graphics card / TV tuner card designed by ATI Technologies. ATI Radeon is a brand of Graphics processing units (GPU that since 2000 has been manufactured by ATI Technologies and subsequently AMD and is A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to ^[19]
• TV tuners
  • TV Wonder and HDTV Wonder - a chipset family providing TV reception of various analog TV and digital TV signals (PAL, NTSC, ATSC, DVB-T and so on) with first generation AVIVO technology, also supporting CableCARD, and Clear QAM technologies. PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of AVIVO is a video platform ATI first introduced with its R520 -based line of GPUs CableCARD is a plug-in card approximately the size of a credit card that allows consumers in the United States to view and record Digital cable television channels on Digital
  • Theatre - a family of QAM and VSB demodulators for the Digital Cable ready and ATSC environments. Single-sideband modulation ( SSB) is a refinement of Amplitude modulation that more efficiently uses electrical power and bandwidth.
• Xilleon - A 32-bit MIPS processor featuring hardware decoding of MPEG2, H.264 and VC-1 encoding and decoding. The AMD Xilleon video processor (previously branded as ATI Xilleon) is a 32-bit System-on-a-chip MIPS processor for use in MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information" H264 is a standard for Video compression. It is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC (for Advanced Video Coding) VC-1 is the informal name of the SMPTE 421M Video codec standard initially developed by Microsoft.
• Remote Wonder, wireless remote control series for ATI multimedia products. Operates using radio frequency, away from mainstream implementations using infrared. Infrared ( IR) radiation is Electromagnetic radiation whose Wavelength is longer than that of Visible light, but shorter than that of

Console graphics solutions

• Flipper - The Nintendo GameCube contains a 3D accelerator developed by ArtX, Inc, a company acquired by ATI during the development of the GPU. The, often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo 's fourth home Video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. The, often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo 's fourth home Video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. Flipper is similar in capability to a Direct3D 7 accelerator chip. Direct3D is part of Microsoft 's DirectX API. Direct3D is only available for Microsoft's various Windows Operating systems ( Windows It consists of 4 rendering pipelines, with hardware T&L, and some limited pixel shader support. Transform clipping and lighting ( T&L or sometimes TCL) is a term used in Computer graphics. Innovatively the chip has 3 MiB of embedded 1T-SRAM for use as ultra-fast low-latency (6. A mebibyte (a contraction of me ga bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, abbreviated MiB. 1T-SRAM is a memory technology introduced by MoSys Inc, which offers a high-density alternative to traditional SRAM in embedded memory applications 2 ns) texture and framebuffer/Z-buffer storage allowing 10. A nanosecond ( ns) is one billionth of a second See also times of other orders of magnitude. A framebuffer is a video output device that drives a video display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of data In Computer graphics, z-buffering is the management of image depth coordinates in three-dimensional (3-D graphics usually done in Hardware, sometimes in 4 GB/second bandwidth (extremely fast for the time). A gigabyte (derived from the SI prefix Giga-) is a unit of Information or Computer Flipper was designed by members of the Nintendo 64 Reality Coprocessor team who moved from SGI. The, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo 's third home Video game console for the international market The Flipper team went on to have a major hand in development of the Radeon 9700. The Radeon R300 (introduced August 2002) is the third generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies.
• Xenos - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains a custom graphics chip produced by ATI, known as "R500", "C1", or more often as Xenos. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer The Xbox 360 is the second Video game console produced by Microsoft, and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS. Some of these features include the embedded DRAM (eDRAM). eDRAM stands for " embedded DRAM " a Capacitor -based Dynamic random access memory usually integrated on the same die The Xenos also features the “True Unified Shader Architecture” which dynamically loads and balances pixel and vertex processing amongst a bank of identically capable processing units. This differs greatly from past-generations PC graphics chips that have separate banks of processors designed for their individual task (vertex/pixel). Another feature presented in Xenos is the hardware surface tessellation to divide a surface into smaller triangles, similar to TruForm in terms of functionality, which is an advanced feature as it is not presented even in the most up-to-date DirectX 10 specification. A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of Plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps TruForm is a graphics texture technology created by ATI and employed in DirectX 8 and OpenGL graphics cards on both Mac and PC Direct3D is part of Microsoft 's DirectX API. Direct3D is only available for Microsoft's various Windows Operating systems ( Windows The latest-generation Radeon R600 GPU core inherited most of the features presented in Xenos, except eDRAM. The Graphics processing unit (GPU codenamed R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series and the FireGL 2007 series Video eDRAM stands for " embedded DRAM " a Capacitor -based Dynamic random access memory usually integrated on the same die
• Hollywood - Successor to Flipper. Hollywood is the name of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU used in Nintendo's Wii Video game console. Part of Nintendo's latest gaming console, Wii. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on

Handheld chipsets

• Imageon - System-on-a-chip (SoC) design introduced in 2002 to bring integrated 2D and 3D graphics to handhelds devices, cellphones and Tablet PCs. The Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) is a line of media processors developed by ATI providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices System-on-a-chip or system on chip ( SoC or SOC) refers to integrating all components of a Computer or other electronic System 2D computer graphics is the Computer -based generation of Digital images mdashmostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models text and digital 3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer A Tablet PC is a Notebook or slate-shaped Mobile computer, equipped with a Touchscreen or Graphics tablet/screen hybrid technology which allows Current top-of-line product is the Imageon 2298 which includes DVD quality recording and playback, TV output, and supports up to a 12 megapixel camera, with another line of Imageon products, the 2300 series supporting OpenGL ES 1. In Digital imaging, a pixel ( pict ure el ement is the smallest piece of information in an image OpenGL ( Open G raphics L ibrary is a standard specification defining a cross-language Cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 1+ extensions. The Imageon line was rebranded under AMD, after AMD acquired ATI in Q3 2006, as AMD Imageon.
• Imageon TV - Announced in February 2006, allowing handhelds devices to receive digital broadcast TV (DVB-H) signals and enables watching TV programs on these devices, the chipset includes tuner, demodulator, decoder, and a full software stack, operates alongside the Imageon chip. The Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) is a line of media processors developed by ATI providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices DVB-H ( Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats The Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) is a line of media processors developed by ATI providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices
• Besides full products, ATI has also supplied 3D and 2D graphics components to other vendors, specifically the Qualcomm^[20] MSM7000 series SoC chips of handheld and upcoming Freescale i. Qualcomm ( is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego California Freescale Semiconductor Inc is an American Semiconductor manufacturer MX processors ^[21].
• ATI claimed in May 2006, that it had sold over 100 million^[22] 'cell phone media co-processors,' significantly more than ATI's rival NVIDIA, and announced in February 2007 that the firm had shipped a total of 200 million of Imageon products since 2003 ^[23].

High Performance Computing

• AMD FireStream, originally ATI Firestream, and previously rebranded as AMD Stream Processor for short period of time, utilizing the stream processing concept, together with Close to Metal (CTM) hardware interface. The AMD FireStream (previously branded as both ATI FireStream and AMD Stream Processor) is a stream processor developed by ATI Technologies Stream processing is a Computer programming paradigm related to SIMD, that allows some applications to more easily exploit a limited form of parallel processing Close To Metal (" CTM " in short originally called Close-to-the-Metal) is the name of a beta version of a low-level programming interface developed by

ATI graphics drivers

Main article: ATI Catalyst Drivers

ATI currently provides proprietary drivers, called ATI Catalyst, for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. ATI Catalyst is a utility software driver package for several ATI products for several operating systems In computing a device driver or software driver is a Computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a Hardware device Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Windows Vista (ˈvɪstə is a line of Operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and business desktops Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Linux users have the option of both the old proprietary (R200 and above) and new open source (R480 and below) drivers.

In an interview with AMD official Hal Speed, it was suggested that AMD were strongly considering making at least the functional part of the ATI drivers open source. ^[24] However, at least until the merger with AMD was complete, ATI had no plans to release their drivers as open source code:

Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of the value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source. In addition, multimedia elements such as content protection must not, by their very nature, be allowed to go open source.

—ATI statement, August 2006, [1]

See also

• Radeon
• Video card
• Video In Video Out (VIVO)
• AMD
• Comparison of ATI Graphics Processing Units
• Comparison of ATI chipsets
• fglrx – Linux display driver used for ATI video cards

References

External links

• AMD's Graphics Division
• AMD GAME! - AMD's gaming website
• ATI Corporate Milestones document
• FiringSquad's History of ATI
• Official AMD ATI Merger Site on AMD Website

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