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ATI's new RADEON™ PC boards deliver the fastest high-quality performance for the power gamer Patented Hyper-Z™ technology delivers fastest ultra-high resolution, true color performance in the industry Advanced 3D game features and hardware Transform and Lighting engine for incredibly realistic characters and environments Three RADEON board versions introduced: 64 MB of ultra-fast DDR memory and video capture and video out support for the power gaming enthusiast 32 MB of DDR for high performance gaming 32MB of SDRAM delivers RADEON power under $200 Toronto, Canada, July 17, 2000 - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today the most powerful and feature packed graphics board ever designed, the RADEON graphics board. Using its patented Hyper-Z technology and its three texture units per rendering pipeline, the RADEON board delivers the ultimate 32-bit gaming experience and blazing fast frame rates at ultra-high resolutions in games such as Quake III Arena™ and Unreal Tournament™.

RADEON boards feature the fastest hardware geometry T&L engine and a quantum step forward in 3D architecture with the most Direct X® 8 and OpenGL® features. The RADEON Charisma Engine™ and Pixel Tapestry™ architecture enable the most realistic characters and environments ever created, as demonstrated in upcoming games such as Obi-Wan™ by Lucas Arts, Dungeon Siegeä by Microsoft and Giants™ by Interplay.

More performance - for ultra high resolution, true color gaming RADEON boards are optimized for ultra-high resolution true color game play. This is accomplished through such unique features as:

patented Hyper-Z technology which decreases the amount of information sent to the frame buffer alleviating the memory bandwidth problems that bottleneck other architectures 3 Texture Units - The only card on the market to support 3 texture units, RADEON will speed through games such as Microsoft's Halo™ since it can render multiple textures in a single pass

Playing at high resolutions and in true color is optimal for all game play. First person shooter games such as Quake III Arena™ and MDK2™ will benefit from the speed and improved background detail of RADEON. Fans of strategy games such as Homeworld Cataclysm™ will be able to view and manage their ships more effectively while Flight Simulator 2001™ pilots will be able to better judge their flight patterns and distance targets with the increased field of view and improved visual quality.

More realistic characters and detailed environments ATI's RADEON is the only card to offer the Charisma Engine with advanced features such as 4 Matrix Skinning and Key Frame interpolation. The 4 Matrix Skinning in RADEON allows characters that in the past seemed blocky and robotic to jump to life with fluid, realistic movements.

"Dungeon Siege's animation system has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of advanced hardware acceleration", said Mike Biddlecombe, senior engineer at Gas Powered Games, "and now with the 4 Matrix Skinning of RADEON we can achieve faster framerates and smoother animation, resulting in characters that move with realism never seen before."

RADEON brings game environments to life with the most advanced 3D engine ever developed. ATI is the only card to support advanced features such as 3D texture support for new volumetric effects and support for all forms bump mapping effects (Emboss, Dot product 3 and Environmental Bump Mapping).

The most complete DirectX 8 and Open GL feature support DirectX is the Microsoft interface that allows games to communicate with the graphics hardware. DirectX 8 is the latest version of DirectX that will be available later this year. ATI offers the most complete DirectX 8 feature implementation available today with support for programmable pixel shaders, tweening and skinning, all forms of bump mapping and 3D textures.

The best video support for DVD and HDTV RADEON boards advance ATI's leadership in digital video with more new features, including on-chip Motion Compensation and IDCT MPEG acceleration together with adaptive de-interlacing. The ability to decode all the HDTV formats without loading the CPU, and directly driving both analog and DVI digital high definition displays without the need for external hardware, make RADEON the world's best platform for PC-based HDTV and DVD.

"The MPEG acceleration in the RADEON is very impressive in that it will let the PC platform decode an HDTV signal while at the same time doing MPEG picture in picture," stated Dave Marsh, technical evangelist, TV and video, Microsoft. "Couple this with the dramatically improved video de-interlacing and the well implemented multi-tap scaling, and the PC becomes an even better solution for all aspects of TV and video entertainment."

Pricing and Availability The RADEON board with 32MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory is shipping now with a street price of $279. The RADEON board with 64 MB of DDR memory for the power gamer with video capture and TV out support is shipping in August with a street price of $399. A third RADEON product with 32MB of SDRAM memory, delivering the best price/performance of any board in its class, will ship in September with a street price of $199.