ATI Technologies Inc.
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| Public company (, NASDAQ) | |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Fate | Acquired by AMD |
| Founded | 1985 (as Array Technology Inc.) |
| Defunct | 2006 (acquisition completed) |
| Headquarters | Markham, Ontario, Canada |
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Key people
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K.Y. Ho (Founder, Former CEO) Lee Ka Lau (Founder, Former President) Benny Lau (Founder) Francis Lau (Founder) |
| Products |
Graphics processing units Chipsets Video capture cards |
| Revenue |
 $2.222 Billion USD (2005) |
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$16.93 Million USD (2005) |
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| Website | ati.com(Redirect to amd.com) |
ATI Technologies Inc. (commonly called ATI) was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company listed publicly in 1993. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquired ATI in 2006. As a major fabrication-less or fabless semiconductor company, ATI conducted research and development in-house and outsourced the manufacturing and assembly of its products. With the decline and eventual bankruptcy of 3dfx in 2000, ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players in the graphics processors industry, eventually forcing other manufacturers into niche roles.
The acquisition of ATI in 2006 was important to AMD's strategic development of its Fusion generation of computer processors, which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within a single chip. Since 2010, AMD's graphics processor products have ceased using the ATI brand name.
Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau, and Kwok Yuen Ho founded ATI in 1985 as Array Technology Inc. Working primarily in the OEM field, ATI produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such as IBM and Commodore. By 1987, ATI had grown into an independent graphics-card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder card product lines that year. In the early nineties they released products able to process graphics without the CPU: in May 1991, the Mach8, in 1992 the Mach32, which offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI acceleration. ATI Technologies Inc. went public in 1993, with stock listed on NASDAQ and on the .
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