ATI technologies gets mobile design wins

Electronic News, Nov 19, 2001

ADDING FIRE TO THE HOT PORTABLE GRAPHICS CHIP MARKET, ATI Technologies Inc. of Markham, Ontario, last week signed up three notebook PC manufacturers--Fujitsu, IBM and Compaq--to use its mobile graphics processors for current and future notebook computers.

Tokyo-based Fujitsu Inc. will use the ATI Rage Mobility-M graphics chip for its portable FMV-BIBLO LOOX T notebook PC for the Japanese mobile market. The Mobility-M features 4Mbytes of integrated SDRAM and will be combined with an 800MHz Transmeta Crusoe 5800 processor.

IBM Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. will use ATI's Mobility Radeon graphics processor in the ThinkPad X22 and Presario 2700 notebook computers, respectively. The ThinkPad X22 will feature an Intel Pentium III-M 800MHz low-volt processor along with the Radeon graphics processor and will include 8Mbytes of synchronous graphics RAM. The Presario 2700 notebook will feature an Intel Pentium III-M processor running up to 1.2GHz in processing speeds with the Radeon graphics processor and 32Mbytes of SDRAM.