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.ĪTI made an entrance into the mobile computing sector by introducing 3D-graphics acceleration to laptops in 1996. 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. 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. 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 line powered almost the entire range of ATI graphics products. This chip was based on the Mach 64 but it featured elemental 3D acceleration. 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 techniques of hardware-based video acceleration.ĪTI introduced its first combination of 2D and 3D accelerator under the name 3D Rage. went public in 1993 with stock listed at NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange. Debuting in 1992, the Mach32 offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI acceleration performance. In May 1991, the company released the Mach8, ATI's first product able to process graphics without the CPU. By 1987, ATI had grown into an independent graphics card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder graphic card product lines under its brand that year. Working primarily in the OEM field, ATI produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such as IBM and Commodore. In 1985, ATI was founded as Array Technologies Incorporated by Kwok Yuen Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Ka Lau. These two companies' dominance of the market forced other manufacturers into niche roles.
The flagship product, the Radeon series of graphics cards, directly competes with NVIDIA's GeForce. Its main competitor is NVIDIA in the graphics and handheld market. The AMD Graphics Product Group is a fabless semiconductor company conducting in-house research and development and outsourcing the manufacturing and assembly of its products. In 2006, the company was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and was renamed the AMD Graphics Product Group or ATI Technologies ULC, although the ATI brand was retained for graphics cards. (ATI) was a major designer and supplier of graphics processing units and motherboard chipsets.
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