ATI Technologies Inc.  |
| Onetime blazon | Public visitor (TSX, NASDAQ) |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor(southward) | Advanced Micro Devices |
| Founded | 1985 equally Assortment Technologies Inc. |
| Defunct | 2006 (acquisition completed) |
| Headquarters | Markham, Ontario, Canada |
| Key people | Adrian Hartog
(President)
Rick Bergman
(Vice President) (Full general Manager) |
| Products | Graphics processing units
Chipsets
Video capture cards |
| Website | amd.com |
ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Manufacture, the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was caused by Avant-garde Micro Devices (AMD) in 2006. As a major fabrication-less or fabless semiconductor company, ATI conducted research and evolution in-house and outsourced the manufacturing and assembly of its products. ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged equally the two ascendant players in the graphics processors industry, eventually forcing other manufacturers into niche roles.
The acquisition of ATI in 2006 was of import to AMD's strategic development of its Fusion generation of estimator processors, which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within a single chip. Since 2010, the ATI brand proper noun is no longer used for any of AMD'due south graphics processor products. [1]
Contents
- one History
- 2 Products
- 2.1 Calculator graphics chipsets
- ii.two Personal computer platforms and chipsets
- two.3 Multimedia and Digital Telly products
- 2.iv Console graphics products
- 2.five Handheld chipsets
- two.6 High-performance computing
- three See likewise
- iii.1 Competing companies
- 4 References
- five External links
History
Lee Ka Lau, [2] Francis Lau, Benny Lau, and Kwok Yuen Ho [3] founded ATI in 1985 as Array Technologies Incorporated. Working primarily in the OEM field, ATI produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such every bit IBM and Commodore. By 1987, ATI had grown into an independent graphics card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder card product lines that yr. [iv] In the early nineties they released products able to process graphics without the CPU. In May 1991 the Mach8, in 1992 the Mach32, which offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI dispatch. ATI Technologies Inc. went public in 1993 with stock listed on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
AMD Markham at the former ATI headquarters.
ATI's former Silicon Valley office.
ATI "Graphics Solution Rev 3" from 1985/1986, supporting Hercules graphics. As can be seen from the PCB the layout was done in 1985, whereas the mark on the central scrap CW16800-A says "8639" meaning that fleck was manufactured week 39, 1986. This card is using the ISA 8-bit interface.
ATI VGA Wonder with 256 kB RAM.
In 1994, the Mach64 accelerator debuted, powering the Graphics Xpression and Graphics Pro Turbo, offering hardware support for YUV-to-RGB color space conversion in addition to hardware zoom; early on techniques of hardware-based video acceleration.
ATI introduced its showtime combination of 2D and 3D accelerator under the proper name 3D Rage. This chip was based on the Mach 64, simply it featured elemental 3D dispatch. The ATI Rage line powered almost the entire range of ATI graphics products. In item, the Rage Pro was ane of the commencement viable 2D-plus-3D alternatives to 3Dfx's 3D-only Voodoo chipset. 3D acceleration in the Rage line advanced from the basic functionality inside the initial 3D Rage to a more than advanced DirectX 6.0 accelerator in the 1999 Rage 128.
The All-in-Wonder product line introduced in 1996 was the beginning combination of integrated graphics chip with Boob tube tuner card and the get-go chip that enabled to display estimator graphics on a TV set. [5] The cards featured 3D acceleration powered by ATI'due south 3D Rage Two, 64-scrap 2D performance, Tv-quality video dispatch, analog video capture, Tv tuner functionality, flicker-gratis Television receiver-out and stereo Idiot box sound reception.
ATI fabricated an archway into the mobile calculating sector past introducing 3D-graphics acceleration to laptops in 1996. The Mobility product line had to encounter requirements different from desktop PC, such as minimized power usage, reduced rut output, TMDS output capabilities for laptop screens, and maximized integration. In 1997, ATI acquired Tseng Labs's graphics assets, which included 40 engineers.
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. Applied science adult for a specific Radeon generation could exist built in varying levels of features and performance in society to provide products suited for the entire market range, from high-finish to upkeep to mobile versions.
In 2000, ATI acquired ArtX, which engineered the Flipper graphics chip used in the Nintendo GameCube game console. They have also created a modified version of the scrap (codenamed Hollywood) for the successor of the GameCube, the Wii. ATI was contracted by Microsoft to create the graphics core (codenamed Xenos) for the Xbox 360. Later in 2005, ATI acquired Terayon's cable modem silicon intellectual property strengthening their lead in the consumer digital tv set market place. [half-dozen] K. Y. Ho remained as Chairman of the Lath until he retired in November 2005. Dave Orton replaced him equally the President and CEO of the system.
On July 24, 2006, a articulation announcement was made that ATI would be caused by Avant-garde Micro Devices in a deal valued at $5.6 billion. [7] The acquisition consideration closed on October 25, 2006, [8] and included over $two billion financed from a loan and 56 million shares of AMD stock. [9] ATI's operations were folded into AMD Graphics Product Group (GPG), [10] and ATI'south CEO Dave Orton became the Executive Vice President of Visual and Media Businesses at AMD until his resignation in 2007. [xi] The top-level management was reorganized with the Senior Vice President and Full general Manager, and the Senior Vice President and Full general Director of Consumer Electronics Group, both of whom would report to the CEO of AMD. [12] On 30 Baronial 2010, it was appear by John Trikola that AMD was retiring the ATI make for its graphics chipsets in favor of the AMD name. [13]
Products
ATI'southward Ruby fictional female grapheme.
In improver to developing loftier-end GPUs (originally called a VPU, visual processing unit of measurement, by ATI) for PCs and Apple Macs, ATI also designed embedded versions for laptops (Mobility Radeon), PDAs and mobile phones (Imageon), integrated motherboards (Radeon IGP), and others.
"Ruby", a fictional female grapheme described equally a "mercenary for hire.", was created by ATI to promote some of its products. [14] Computer-animated videos produced by RhinoFX about Cherry-red on a mission (being a sniper, saboteur, hacker and and so on) appeared at large technology shows such equally CeBIT and CES.
Estimator graphics chipsets
- Graphics Solution / "Small Wonder" – Series of 8-bit ISA cards with MDA, Hercules, CGA and Plantronics Colour+ compatibility. Afterward versions added EGA support.
- EGA / VGA Wonder – IBM "EGA/VGA-compatible" display adapters (1987)
- Mach Series – Introduced ATI's beginning 2D GUI "Windows Accelerator". Every bit the series evolved, GUI acceleration improved dramatically and early on video acceleration appeared.
- Rage Series – ATI's starting time 2D and 3D accelerator chips. The serial evolved from rudimentary 3D with 2D GUI acceleration and MPEG-ane capability, to a highly competitive Direct3D 6 accelerator with then "best-in-class" DVD (MPEG2) acceleration. The diverse fries were very popular with OEMs of the time. The Rage II was used in the start ATI All-In-Wonder multi-role video card, and more avant-garde All-In-Wonders based on Rage series GPUs followed. (1995–2004)
- Rage Mobility – Designed for use in low-ability environments, such as notebooks. These fries were functionally similar to their desktop counterparts, just had additions such as advanced power management, LCD interfaces, and dual monitor functionality.
- Radeon Series – ATI launched the Radeon line in 2000 as their consumer 3D accelerator add-in cards, its flagship production line and the directly competitor to Nvidia's GeForce. The original Radeon DDR was ATI's start DirectX 7 3D accelerator, introducing their start hardware T&50 engine. ATI oftentimes 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 footing for many ATI All-In-Wonder boards.
- Mobility Radeon – A serial of ability-optimized versions of Radeon graphics chips for use in laptops. They introduced innovations such as modularized RAM fries, DVD (MPEG2) acceleration, notebook GPU card sockets, and "PowerPlay" power direction technology. AMD recently appear DirectX 11-uniform versions of its mobile processors [15] ..
- ATI CrossFire – This technology was ATI's response to NVIDIA'south SLI platform. 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 ability of the two, iii or iv video cards to increase performance through a variety of different rendering options. At that place is an option for additional PCI-E video carte du jour plugging into the 3rd PCI-Due east slot for gaming physics, or some other option to practice physics on the second video carte. [16]
- FireGL – Launched in 2001, following ATI's acquisition of FireGL Graphics from Diamond Multimedia. Workstation CAD/CAM video card, based on the Radeon series.
- FireMV – For workstations, featuring "multi-view", for multiple displays with 2D dispatch only, usually based on low-end products of the Radeon series.
Although AMD strongly considered making the functional part of the ATI drivers "open source", [17] before the merger with AMD, ATI had no plans to release their graphics drivers as free software:
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 argument, Baronial 2006
Personal reckoner platforms and chipsets
Meet also: Perbandingan -- ATI chipsets
- IGP 3x0, Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP – ATI's first chipsets. Included a DirectX 7-level 3D graphics processor.
- 9100 IGP – 2nd generation system chipset. IXP250 southbridge. Information technology was notable for being ATI's commencement complete motherboard chipset, including an ATI-built southbridge. Information technology included an updated DirectX 8.1 course graphics processor [eighteen]
- Xpress 200/200P – PCI Express-based Athlon 64 and Pentium four chipset. Supports SATA as well every bit integrated graphics with DirectX nine.0 support, the beginning integrated graphics chipset to do and then [19]
- Xpress 3200 – similar to Xpress 200, merely designed for optimal CrossFire performance.
In addition to the above chipset, ATI struck a deal in 2005 with CPU and motherboard manufacturers, particularly Asus and Intel, to create onboard 3D Graphics solutions for Intel'south range of motherboards released with their range of Intel Pentium Grand-based desktop processors, the Intel Core and Intel Core 2 processors, the D101GGC and D101GGC2 chipset (codenamed "M County" [20] ) based on the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. However, high-end boards with integrated graphics processor (IGP) nonetheless used Intel GMA integrated graphics processors. The bargain with Intel ended with the purchase of ATI past AMD in 2006, with Intel announcing Sister IGP chipset (D201GLY chipset, codenamed "Niggling Valley") for entry-level desktop platform, replacing the "Grand County" series chipsets.
Multimedia and Digital TV products
- All-In-Wonder series – A serial of multimedia graphics cards which incorporating TV tuner and Radeon family graphics cards onto one add-in carte du jour, which, after existence seemingly discontinued was relaunched as All-In-Wonder Hard disk drive on June 26, 2008.
- TV tuners
- Television set Wonder and HDTV Wonder – a chipset family providing Tv reception of various analog TV and digital Television set signals (PAL, NTSC, ATSC, DVB-T and then on) with first generation AVIVO technology, also supporting CableCARD, and Clear QAM technologies.
- Theater – a family of QAM and VSB demodulators for the Digital Cable fix and ATSC environments.
- Remote Wonder, wireless remote command serial for ATI multimedia products. Operates using radio frequency, away from mainstream implementations using infrared.
Console graphics products
- Flipper – The Nintendo GameCube (codenamed "dolphin" during product) contains a 3D accelerator adult by ArtX, Inc, a visitor acquired past ATI during the development of the GPU. Flipper was similar in capability to a Direct3D 7 accelerator fleck. It consisted of four rendering pipelines, with hardware T&50, and some express pixel shader back up. Innovatively the chip has 3 MiB of embedded 1T-SRAM for utilise as ultra-fast low-latency (vi.two ns) texture and framebuffer/Z-buffer storage allowing 10.4 GB/second bandwidth (extremely fast for the time). Flipper was designed by members of the Nintendo 64 Reality Coprocessor squad who moved from SGI. The Flipper team went on to accept a major hand in the development of the Radeon 9700.
- Xenos – Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains a custom graphics flake produced past ATI, known as "R500", "C1", or more than frequently every bit Xenos. Some of these features include the embedded DRAM (eDRAM). The Xenos also features the "Truthful Unified Shader Compages" which dynamically loads and balances pixel and vertex processing amongst a banking company 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/fragment). 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 avant-garde feature as it is non presented even in the DirectX ten specification. The recent generation Radeon R600 GPU core inherited nearly of the features presented in Xenos, except eDRAM.
- Hollywood – Successor to Flipper. Part of Nintendo'southward gaming console, Wii.
Handheld chipsets
- Imageon – Organisation-on-a-chip (SoC) pattern introduced in 2002 to bring integrated 2nd and 3D graphics to handhelds devices, cellphones and Tablet PCs. The Imageon 2298 included DVD quality recording and playback, Telly output, and supported up to a 12-megapixel camera, with another line of Imageon products, the 2300 series supporting OpenGL ES 1.1+ extensions. The Imageon line was rebranded under AMD, and sold to Qualcomm in 2009.
- Imageon Idiot box – Appear in Feb 2006, allowing handhelds devices to receive digital broadcast Idiot box (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.
Also full products, ATI also supplied 3D and 2D graphics components to other vendors, specifically the Qualcomm [21] MSM7000 series SoC chips of handheld and upcoming Freescale i. MX processors [22] ATI claimed in May 2006, that it had sold over 100 one thousand thousand [23] '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. [24]
After the AMD acquisition, the Imageon and Xilleon were sold off to Qualcomm and Broadcom, respectively.
High-functioning calculating
- ATI Firestream, using the stream processing concept, together with Close to Metal (CTM) hardware interface. After the AMD acquisition, it was succeeded by AMD FireStream, rebranded as AMD Stream Processor for a short period of time,
See also
 | Companies portal |
- Perbandingan -- ATI chipsets
- Perbandingan -- ATI graphics processing units
- Fglrx – Linux display driver used for ATI video cards
- Radeon
- Radeon R800
- Video card
- Video-in video-out (VIVO)
Competing companies
References
- ^ "ATI to be re-branded as AMD – branding, ATI Radeon, ati, amd – ARN". Arnnet.com.au. August 30, 2010. Retrieved February xix, 2011.
- ^ University of Toronto Division of University Advancement page. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
- ^ "K.Y. Ho biography on ATI website". Ati.com. February 7, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ History of AMD at AMD.com [dead link]
- ^ History of AMD – 1996 at AMD.com [dead link]
- ^ press release [dead link]
- ^ "AMD 2008 10-K SEC Filling. Pg 105".
- ^ "Printing Release". Ir.ati.com. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ "AMD folio". Amd.com. February 10, 2011. Retrieved February nineteen, 2011.
- ^ "AMD 2007 Analyst Twenty-four hour period page". Amd.com. Retrieved Feb xix, 2011.
- ^ "AMD 2006 December Analyst Day folio". Amd.com. Retrieved Feb xix, 2011.
- ^ "Corporate Data – Executive Biographies at". Amd.com. February 14, 2011. Retrieved February xix, 2011.
- ^ "AMD Decides to Driblet the ATI Make – Softpedia". News.softpedia.com. Retrieved Feb nineteen, 2011.
- ^ "Ruby'south Headquarters at". Ati.de. January xv, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ "AMD launches DirectX 11 graphics chips for laptops". techworld.com. January 8, 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2010.
- ^ "DailyTech written report". Dailytech.com. Retrieved February nineteen, 2011.
- ^ Yager, Tom (Baronial ii, 2006). "'AMD talks about ATI' at". Infoworld.com. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ Gavrichenkov, Ilya. ATI RADEON 9100 IGP Integrated Chipset Review, Ten-fleck Labs, Dec ane, 2003.
- ^ Wasson, Scott. ATI's Radeon Xpress 200 chipset, Tech Report, November eight, 2004.
- ^ Intel Boxed Desktop Board Quick Guide (Dec 2006) [expressionless link]
- ^ page ten and xv [expressionless link]
- ^ DailyTech report. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ "The Inquirer report". Theinquirer.net. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ AMD press release. Retrieved July 27, 2007
External links
- ATI corporate milestones
- FiringSquad's History of ATI
| AMD graphics products |
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| Consumer graphics processing units | | | second rendering | Direct3D three–half-dozen | Direct3D 7 | Direct3D 8 | Direct3D 9 | Direct3D 10 | Direct3D 11 | | | | | | | | | - Evergreen
- N.I.
- S.I.
- S.I.one
- V.I.1
- P.I.1
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| Chipsets | | | ATI chipsets | AMD chipsets | | - IGP 300 series/RX380
- Radeon Xpress 200
- CrossFire Xpress 3200
- Radeon Xpress 1250
| - 480X/570X/580X
- 690 Series
- vii-Series
- 8-Series
- nine-Series
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| Other products and technologies | | | Multi-GPU | - ATI Multi Rendering
- CrossFireX
| | | GPU technologies | - TruForm
- HyperMemory
- HyperZ
- PowerPlay
- AVIVO
- ATI Hybrid Graphics
- XGP
| | | Workstations and HPC | - FireGL
- FireMV
- FirePro 3D
- FireStream (Close to Metal)
| | | Drivers and software | - Catalyst
- Hydravision
- HLSL2GLSL
- HD3D
| | | Multimedia and mobile | - All-in-Wonder
- Imageon2
- Xilleon2
| | | Video game panel GPU | - Flipper (GameCube)
- Xenos (Xbox 360)
- Hollywood (Wii)
- Latte (Wii U)
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Home theater PC software and related devices |
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| Windows | - Beyond Television receiver
- DVBViewer
- GB-PVR
- MediaPortal
- JRiver Media Center
- ShowShifter
- Windows Media Centre
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| OS 10 | - Centerstage
- Front Row
- ITheater
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| Linux distributions | - Element Bone
- GeeXboX
- LinuxMCE
- Mythbuntu
- MythDora
- XBMC Live
- MythTV
- OpenELEC
- Video Disk Recorder
- Ubuntu Idiot box
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| Cross-platform | - Plex (Android, iOS, Linux, Mac Os Ten, Windows, Windows Phone)
- SageTV (Linux, Mac Bone 10, Windows)
- XBMC (Android, Apple tree Boob tube, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X, MeeGo, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Xbox)
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Set up-top boxes/
Digital media receivers | - Apple TV
- Boxee Box
- DBox2
- Dreambox
- HP MediaSmart Connect
- Hauppauge MediaMVP
- Inview Applied science
- Google Idiot box
- Nexus Q
- Netgear Digital Entertainer
- Roku
- TiVo
- Vu+
- WD TV
- Windows Media Center Extender
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| Related hardware | - ATI Theater Cards
- Elgato EyeTV devices
- TechniSat DVB Adapters
- TerraTec DVB Adapters
- Hauppauge Computer Works WinTV PVR Cards
- HDHomeRun
- Remote control
- Mac Mini
- Nvidia Idiot box-Tuner Cards
- Quiet PC
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| System manufacturers | - Alienware
- Apple Inc.
- Dell
- Gateway
- Hewlett-Packard
- Intel
- Logitech
- Interact-TV
- Shuttle Inc.
- Sony
- Toshiba
- Velocity Micro
- Zotac
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- Perbandingan -- video player software
- Perbandingan -- audio player software
- Digital media receiver
- Hd media player
- Dwelling cinema
- Abode theater PC
- Internet television
- Media server
- Portable media role player
- Prepare-summit box
- Smart TV
- Video player
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