News: Ati e Packard Bell

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<br>Ati comunica di aver siglato un accordo con Packard Bell per la fornitura di chip video Mobility Radeon 9600 per la serie M7 della linea di notebook della casa.
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MUNICH / GERMANY, 3 December, 2003 - Dramatic visual effects, unmatched performance and
vibrant cinematic realism are now available to Packard Bell notebook users as ATI Technologies Inc.
(TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced that the MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9600 mobile
visual processor is currently shipping in the EasyNote M7 series notebooks by Packard Bell, one of
Europe’s leading notebook manufacturers.<br>
The MOBILITY RADEON 9600 is the first mobile graphics processor to ship with full hardware support for
Microsoft DirectXTM 9.0. It runs DirectX™ 9.0 graphics at full-speed, with full image quality and color
precision at all times – a requirement for true-to-life cinematic special effects.<br>
Packard Bell’s EasyNote M7 series notebooks will be powered by ATI’s MOBILITY RADEON 9600
mobile visual processor with 64MB DDR RAM, an Intel® Pentium® 4M Processor with a DVD-R/RW
drive, and a 15.1” SXGA+ panel display.<br>
“Packard Bell is a major player in the European market and its selection of the MOBILITY RADEON 9600
is a significant design win for ATI,” said Peter Edinger, Vice President, ATI Technologies Europe.
<br>“MOBILITY RADEON 9600 is overwhelmingly the graphics solution of choice for significant industry
players, concluded Mr Edinger.”
<br>ATI’s MOBILITY RADEON 9600 selected by Packard Bell
MOBILITY RADEON 9600 uses an extraordinarily efficient 3D core delivering 12 pixel shader operations
per clock cycle, and is a multimedia powerhouse with comprehensive hardware acceleration for encode,
decode and de-blocking of MPEG-2 and streaming video formats. The MOBILITY RADEON 9600 also
extends ATI’s leadership in notebook graphics power management, giving users both the longest battery life
and highest performance.<br>
With the availability of MOBILITY RADEON 9600, ATI has extended its leadership by bringing the
highest performance, cinematic realism and DirectX 9.0 graphics to all segments of the PC market –
high-end and mainstream desktop and notebook PCs.
For more information on ATI’s graphics please visit http://www.ati.com. For more information on Packard
Bell’s products please visit http://www.packardbell.com.


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