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3 unusual facts about ATI Technologies


History of Markham, Ontario

ATI Technologies, IBM Canada, Apple Computer Canada, Motorola Canada and many other well-known companies have chosen Markham as their home in Canada.

Microsoft Talisman

There was a brief rebirth soon after, however, when Fujitsu claimed to be working on a single-chip implementation that would be available in 1998, with rumors of similar projects at S3 Graphics and ATI Technologies.

Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

It commonly featured speeches from people such as Bill Gates, and generally had several sponsors including Intel, AMD, ATI and others.


Framebuffer

At one time there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx; ATI; Hercules; Trident; Nvidia; Radius; S3 Graphics; SiS and Silicon Graphics.

IZ3D

iZ3D, Inc., was an American company that developed and sold software which enabled the usage of many different 3D techniques on NVidia and ATI graphic cards, and also sold stereoscopic monitors based on polarization technology.

Matrox Parhelia

However, within a few months after release, the Parhelia was completely overshadowed by ATI's far faster and fully DirectX 9.0 compliant Radeon 9700.

Trident Microsystems

It was not until the late 1990s that Trident finally released a competitive chip, the TGUI-9880 (Blade3D.) By this time, Trident's reach had once again retreated to the low-end OEM market, where it was crowded by ATI, S3, and SiS.


see also

David E. Orton

After the announced merger of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and COO Dirk Meyer.