ATI Unleashes Mobility RADEON 9000: Leading the Mobile Graphics

by Anton Shilov
08/29/2002 | 08:24 PM

ATI Technologies has once again proven its leadership position on the mobile graphics solution market. Today this Canadian graphics chip developer announced its Mobility RADEON 9000, a new graphics processor, intended for use in notebooks. The new GPU supports all the features its desktop colleague does, bringing the graphics in mobile computers to the totally different level.

The key technical specifications of the novelty that should be pointed out are the following:

• Four rendering pipelines with one texture unit per each one;
• One vertex shader pipeline;
• DirectX 8.1 features hardware support;
• Improved power-saving POWERPLAY 3.0 technology;
• Integrated dual-channel LVDS, with support for QXGA resolutions (2048x1536);
• 165 MHz integrated TMDS transmitter (Digital Flat Panels);
• Integrated TV-Out Encoder;
• Integrated 400MHz RAMDAC;
• Integrated Spread Spectrum;
• Integrated 12-bit DDR and 24-bit SDR Digital Port;
• Improved ratiometric expansion with ATI ZOOM technology;
• MPEG2 decoder;

Mobility RADEON 9000 will be offered in three variants:

- Discrete;
- On-chip 32MB DDR (64-bit);
- On-chip 64MB DDR (128-bit).

Hewlett-Packard and Medion have already introduced their notebooks featuring the latest mobile GPU from ATI. The shipments are set on September.