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Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader
in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia solutions for desktop
personal computers, mobile computing, integrated and convergence products.
The pioneer, innovator and market leader in the graphics industry, ATI’s
strength is built upon the strength of its people, its product and technology
excellence, customer focus, top-to-bottom solutions and ability to identify
and capitalize on key inflection points where new technologies and markets
converge. In the past, these inflection points have included the migration
from 2D to 3D graphics, the adoption of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
bus interface, the incorporation of Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
functionality into the graphics accelerator, the market’s acceptance of
Digital Flat Panel (DFP) monitors, and the more recent development of new,
highly complex and functional graphics processing engines. At
each inflection point, ATI has leveraged its core competency – excellence in
the design, manufacture and marketing of leading video graphics and
acceleration hardware and software. As a result, ATI has established a broad
and diversified product line that encompasses graphics, video and multimedia
components and board solutions. As technology within the computer,
telecommunications and consumer electronics industries continues to converge,
ATI is leveraging its proprietary technology in video graphics to diversify
its product line towards emerging mass-market devices such as low-cost PCs,
set-top boxes and consumer electronics appliances. ATI earned its reputation as an innovative designer of computer
graphics technologies soon after start-up in the mid-1980s by providing
acceleration for the Windows operating system. No longer did computer users
have to wait for their systems to activate. Just as users then welcomed ATI
acceleration, today they welcome the many innovative solutions, including the
ultimate convergence of the compelling and massive content of TV and the
intelligence of the computer. ATI’s combination graphics, video and TV tuner
products have consistently earned more industry awards than any other
graphics and video card on the market. ATI has enjoyed long relationships with the world’s
largest PC OEMs, including Apple, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway,
Hewlett-Packard, Legend and IBM. This market penetration comes not only
because of ATI’s superior acceleration performance, but also because of the
Company’s product migration strategy of re-designing previous-generation
technology for use in lower cost systems when it introduces its
next-generation chips. This allows OEMs to offer entry-level customers
value-priced and fully graphics-enabled systems at the same time as the new,
top-performing systems are offered to high-end customers. With its OEM customer base and close working
relationships with other industry leaders such as Microsoft and Intel, ATI
continues to lead the graphics market, detecting and acting on new trends.
Whether in a system from a leading manufacturer or system integrator, or in a
retail add-in board purchased at any one of the many leading computer retail
distributors that carry ATI products, the computer user can be assured that
if ATI is on the inside, the image on the screen and the visual experience
will be high quality. From the outset, ATI has enjoyed considerable success,
first in the add-on board market, then in the area of sales to the makers of
PCs. In 1993, with sales topping the (US) $200 million mark, ATI became a
public company, trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the stock ticker
symbol ATY. In 1998, when the Company had topped the (US) $1 billion
threshold in both sales and exports, it was listed on NASDAQ under the symbol
ATYT. ATI continues to outperform the industry, experiencing strong demand
for its products around the world. ATI is an ISO 9002 company. Today, the Company has more than 1,900 employees
supporting customers from its headquarters in Markham, Ontario, as well as
from offices in the United States, Germany, Ireland, France and the United
Kingdom. ATI also has research and development facilities in California,
Florida, Massachusetts, Ontario and Pennsylvania. ATI’s manufacturing is done
in Canada and Taiwan. ATI was ranked as the 124th largest public
company in Canada in the 2001 edition of The Financial Post 500. The FP 500
further ranked ATI as the largest, publicly-traded information technology
company in Canada as well as one of the 50 most profitable companies in
Canada over the last five years. ATI was ranked as the 9th largest
high technology company in Canada, according to the 2001 Canadian Business
Technology 100. The Globe and Mail’s 2000 Report On Business 1000 ranked ATI
as the 8th largest high technology company in Canada as well as
the 37th most profitable organization over the last five years. For
more information: www.ati.com
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