August 18, 2005-ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT), the global leader in graphic display solutions, officially released the ultimate game platform-CrossFire in Beijing. The well-designed CrossFire platform will bring gamers the best performance, higher flexibility and game compatibility, surpassing all platforms equipped with multiple graphics processors and completely changing the current game environment.

CrossFire combines ATI radium Xpress chipset supporting Intel and AMD processors, general radium graphics processor and a radium CrossFire version of graphics card, which can bring unprecedented performance and image quality to gamers.

When gamers add graphics cards with ATI CrossFire version, CrossFire combined engine architecture is added to their radium Xpress system, which doubles the efficiency of drawing coloring processing. Through various settings, they can play an excellent computing screen output ability, which is twice as high as that of a single graphics card, or choose to use computing power to improve the image quality of the game and show the real scene beyond the past.

Mr Rick Bergman, senior vice president of ATI's personal computer products division, said, "ATI's CrossFire platform provides an unparalleled gaming experience. It is the most compatible and flexible multi-GPU platform in the industry today, and it is the most choice for users in improving performance and image quality. We believe that CrossFire's excellent game performance will create a brand-new visual paradigm for this generation of graphics processors and a new generation of graphics architecture. "

One of the advantages of ATI crossing the FireWire platform is its high game compatibility. ATI's unique multi-graphics processor mode enables CrossFire to automatically execute every game, old or new, without using special game setting files or upgrading drivers. Whether the game executed by users is just released or launched last year, CrossFire can automatically adjust the game to get faster speed and better image quality.

Gamers can buy ready-made or easily assembled crossfire systems. The top-level CrossFire platform includes a motherboard equipped with ATI radium Xpress 200 CrossFire chipset. These motherboards have two dedicated point-to-point PCI Express graphics expansion slots, which can install multiple graphics cards and are optimized for high-performance games.

Including ASUS, Youtong, Elite, Gigabyte, MSI, PC Partner, Lanbao, Shaxun and many other partners, the CrossFiree-ready motherboard of Radium Dragon Xpress 200 is designed to meet the needs of gamers. They support both AMD and Intel platforms, and add overclocking and various expert value-added functions, including high fax sound, dual-core support, Gigabit Ethernet, SATA II interface supporting NCQ technology, disk array with PCI Express interface and the widest compatibility with high-performance system memory.

Gamers can get the most choices and flexible purchases when choosing graphics cards that cross the FireWire system. The radium X850 CrossFiree graphics card has built-in 256 MB of video memory, which can be used with any radium X850 graphics card. The radium X800 CrossFire graphics card has 128 MB or 256 MB of graphics memory, and can also be used for any radium X800 series graphics card products. General laser X800 and laser X850 graphics cards can be bought newly, or they can be the same level graphics cards that players already have.

Dataland and its product partners will jointly launch CrossFire graphics cards, including ABIT (upgrade technology), ASUS (ASUS), Gigabyte (Gigabyte), MSI (MSI), Gateway (Gateway), Speedway (Spartak), Yingtong (Yingtong), Situr (Colorful) and Max. W (Wei Jie), DFI (Diamond), EPOX (Pan Ying) and OEM manufacturers Ziguang (Ziguang), Founder (Founder) and Tongfang (Tongfang).

System manufacturers including ABS, Alien, Cyberpower, Falcon Northwest, Hypersonic, Ibuypower, Monarch PC, PC Club, Polywell, Velocity Micro, VoodooPC and ZT Group will launch products equipped with crossfire systems for gamers.

With amazing system design and drawing efficiency, CrossFire platform has become a dream weapon in the eyes of high-level gamers. Whether you are a heavy gamer or a general gamer, you will definitely get the highest envy from your friends around you. Laser Dragon X800 and Laser Dragon X850 graphics cards have sold nearly 6.5438+0 million pieces so far, and these players are already svip of ATI CrossFire.