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Old 02-Apr-2003, 13:55   #1
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Default ATI Ships RADEON 9800 PRO, Fulfills Delivery Promise

ATI Ships RADEON 9800 PRO, Fulfills Delivery Promise
World's Fastest, Best Image Quality Graphics Card Now Shipping

MARKHAM, Ontario - April 2, 2003 - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY - News; NASDAQ: ATYT - News) is now shipping its RADEON(TM) 9800 PRO visual processing unit (VPU). Boards based on the world's fastest VPU have shipped to OEM, retail, distribution and online customers, fulfilling ATI's promise of delivering product within 30 days of the March 6 launch.

The RADEON 9800 PRO VPU is the only visual processor to run at full speed and full precision all of the time, providing excellent performance and visual quality without compromise. Numerous positive reviews and awards from leading online and print technology publications have generated huge demand for the graphics boards. A limited quantity pre-order campaign on ATI's web site (www.ati.com) saw excellent demand for the RADEON 9800 PRO, selling out in a matter of days. Products for customers who pre-ordered RADEON 9800 PRO boards begin shipping today.

"Once again we promised and we delivered. Consumers and all of our channel partners are about to get their hands on the fastest, best image quality graphics cards available," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "We will ship our RADEON 9600 and RADEON 9200 products later this month, delivering on that promise as well."

Graphics boards based on the RADEON 9800 PRO VPU, from ATI and its numerous board partners, will be available in systems from the world's leading OEMs and system integrators. For more information on ATI's partners or products, please visit www.ati.com.

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ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost visual processor unit (VPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld markets. With 2002 revenues in excess of US $1 billion, ATI has more than 1,900 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).

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Old 02-Apr-2003, 19:05   #2
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Interesting. I have one pre-ordered in CompUsa.
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Seems they are ahead of the game. Wonder how Nvidia will counter.
Nothing like a good game of chess...
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This will be very interesting. People said it would be funny if Ati got their refresh part out before nvidia got the FX out. I'd say it's fairly true .
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Seems they are ahead of the game. Wonder how Nvidia will counter.
Nothing like a good game of chess...

they still havent countered ther R9700 Pro....
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What are the core and memory speeds on the 256MB Pro model - are they the 400 GPU /460 RAM MHz rumored earlier this week by Nordic from CeBIT?
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Interesting. I have one pre-ordered in CompUsa.
I have one on pre-order also. When did you order yours? I did notice one thing that has changed. When I placed the order it said they would ship on the 1st of April. Now it says they will ship on the 4th. I wonder if that is because the first shippment is all gone and they will get the next on the 4th or if the first shippment was just pushed back.

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What are the core and memory speeds on the 256MB Pro model - are they the 400 GPU /460 RAM MHz rumored earlier this week by Nordic from CeBIT?

MuFu has posted in Rage3D that the 256MByte boards have not been finalised as yet, clockspeeds therefore would not be either.

Maybe ATI are waiting to size up the *cough* real competition *cough* before commiting.

Long may we live in interesting times....
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Old 06-Apr-2003, 01:38   #9
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I ordered it from bestbuy.com on March 31st.
One day it says it's in stock and the next it's not, I guess I have to wait until the preorders are shipped.
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Old 06-Apr-2003, 06:43   #10
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If Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB version will come out.

With this kind of specs (My guess only)...

400MHz (800MHz effective DDR2) 256bit memory
400MHz core / VPU

Then you might just have to wait and don't be in a hurry of buying something old.
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Sad that game developers are so far behind
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