New Class of Integrated Graphics and Power Management for PCI Express-based AMD Mobile Platforms Now Available

Dubai, United Arab Emirates- May 18, 2005 - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT), the world leader for notebook PC graphics, today announced the regional availability of RADEON XPRESS 200M - the industry's first integrated PCI Express DirectX 9 chipset for AMD (NYSE: AMD) processor-based notebook PCs. 

Designed to support a range of form factors, RADEON XPRESS 200M delivers industry-leading RADEON graphics and POWERPLAY 5.0 power management for a best-in-class mobile user experience. Flexible in design, RADEON XPRESS 200M supports all currently available Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processors and Mobile AMD Sempron processors.

"Thin and light notebooks are steadily becoming the popular option with the region's young, dynamic gaming community looking for powerful system performance, broad connectivity and superior multimedia capabilities," said Rauf Baig, Managing Director, ATI Middle East. 

"With performance, lightning-fast onboard DirectX 9 platform graphics and innovative power management, LAN clans from across the Emirates, some of which competed against one another in computer-generated real-world challenges at our highly successful LAN party recently, are certain to benefit from the strong price-performance of the RADEON XPRESS 200M," he added.

With the introduction of RADEON XPRESS 200M, ATI delivers onboard RADEON X300 class visual performance and features.  This visual performance is complimented by POWERPLAY 5.0, an innovation in power management for PCI Express.  Through new capabilities such as Dynamic Lane Count Switching (DLCS), power is adjusted on the fly to reduce GPU power consumption by up to 30 per cent.

"ATI has long been a pioneer in integrated chipset technology on notebooks," said Phil Eisler, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Integrated and Mobile Business Unit, ATI Technologies. "Through working closely with AMD on the development of these chipsets we have a compelling platform to harness the performance of present and future generations of mobile AMD processors."

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