ATI Delivers ‘Ready for Vista’ Multimedia Performance and Productivity with New Mobility Radeon® graphics processors for Notebook PCs

ATI Delivers ‘Ready for Vista’ Multimedia Performance and Productivity with New Mobility Radeon® graphics processors for Notebook PCs

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) has developed a family of notebook graphics to meet the complete needs of mobile professionals-from creating vivid presentations, to watching high definition videos to playing their favorite video game on their flight home. ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1700®, Mobility Radeon® X1450 and Mobility Radeon® X1350 Balance performance with longer battery life to transform notebook PCs into high-powered mobile entertainment systems and Windows Vista*#153;-ready workstations.

ASUS will be the first to market with the Mobility Radeon X1700 graphics processor, with its newly launched high-performance notebooks, including the Mobile TV, Mobility, Multimedia and Entertainment notebook series. “Today’s mobile notebook users demand desktop-class processing performance with exceptional digital multimedia capability,” said Tony Chen, general manager of ASUS Notebook Business. “ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1700, with its powerful 3D, video, and power saving technologies, is an ideal solution for our Vista capable notebooks to deliver a true-to-life digital entertainment experience.”

“With the imminent arrival of Vista and consumers buzzing about high-definition video, the demands on the graphics processor are enormous and no lightweight card can handle it,” said Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research. “ATI’s new Mobility Radeon graphics processors are Windows Vista-ready and up to the task of handling today’s power-intensive HD and multimedia applications.”

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