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druga runda
03-03-03, 10:10 AM
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4609.html



ATI Ships One Millionth Microsoft® DirectX® 9-class Graphics Product

ATI and its board partners continue to be the only source for DirectX® 9 graphics solutions

Monday March 3, 2003

MARKHAM, ON, — ATI Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ATYT; TSX: ATY) today reached a remarkable milestone, shipping its one millionth DirectX® 9 compliant cinematic visual processing unit (VPU). One million users are now able to experience cinematic-quality graphics and blistering performance with RADEON™ 9700- and RADEON™ 9500-based products powered by the world’s fastest and most advanced VPUs. ATI and its board partners continue to be the only source for DirectX® 9 graphics products.

Most, if not all, DirectX® 9-class games currently on the market or in development have used ATI products as the development platform. ATI has seeded the game development community with thousands of RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9500 products. With stable hardware and software, the products have provided an excellent platform for development of DirectX® 9 games in many game studios. Game developers are also excited about the install-base this has provided, creating a strong market for DirectX® 9 games.

“We congratulate ATI on shipping one million units. We're pleased to see that all of ATI’s DirectX® 9 graphics products, from the RADEON 9500 to the RADEON 9700 PRO, provide the same advanced feature-set,” said Mark Rein, Vice President, Epic Games Inc.

ATI’s DirectX® 9 rollout was well timed and executed, delivering high-end, mainstream and multimedia products based on the RADEON 9700 and 9500 chips beginning in August 2002, hitting key OEM and retail inflection points. ATI delivered CATALYST™, a suite of software including a unified DirectX® 9 driver for its entire range of RADEON products concurrent with Microsoft’s release of DirectX® 9 in November 2002.

“ATI promised and delivered when it came to our RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9500 products. The performance, features, stability and availability all met or exceeded the expectations of the market,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “I’m confident that ATI will continue to lead the market with DirectX® 9 solutions. As we have said already, we are on the brink of expanding our offering of DirectX® 9-class products at a variety of price points to satisfy the market, broadening our install base of DirectX® 9 products from one million to millions.”


Huh... NV30 or it's derivatives haven't shipped yet and ATI has already done 1 mill of DX9 capable cards :eek:

Gabrielx
03-03-03, 10:33 AM
Yay!

Go ATI!

...and people say the DX9-test should not have been in 3Dmark03 since DX9-hardware isn't available - pffft!!!

:D

Lezmaka
03-03-03, 05:29 PM
Now that's interesting....

They just now shipped the 1 millionth DX9? I could have sworn all the ati fanboys were gloating about how they had sold 1 million 9700's in just a couple months. But this number includes all DX9 (9700's and 9500s's).

StealthHawk
03-03-03, 05:51 PM
because sold != shipped like i always argued :rolleyes:

Kruno
03-03-03, 05:53 PM
Originally posted by StealthHawk
because sold != shipped like i always argued :rolleyes:

Also might I add: shipped means that they are going over to other countries other than Canada and USA. :)

Shadowx
03-03-03, 09:54 PM
With all the money NV put in the NV30 advertising its a miracle, hahaha with a 9800 and no NV30 yet is where ATI can make allot of sells so NV GET ROLLING WITH THOSE CARDS FOR GAMMERS SAKES, we want better cheaper cards more rapidlly and competition is the only driving force to get that.

jbirney
03-04-03, 06:54 AM
ATI sold a million R300 parts last year.

This week they have sold a million ATI Cards with the R300 on it. Two different things. Remember ATI shipped a lot of corse to 3rd parties.

druga runda
03-04-03, 10:43 AM
One way or the other it looks good for ATI.

Unit01
03-04-03, 04:11 PM
hopefully directX9 cards will be more common and faster than directx8 became common

druga runda
03-05-03, 04:39 PM
Well I still don't have one... maybe soon if my money situation gets better... here is to hope :D....

digitalwanderer
03-05-03, 05:27 PM
Originally posted by Lezmaka
I could have sworn all the ati fanboys were gloating


ATI fanboys do not "gloat", we gleefully celebrate. :p