Appian Now Produces Strictly Powered by ATI Graphics Cards

by Anton Shilov
05/17/2003 | 07:38 AM

Not a lot of us thought in late 2000 that collaboration between Appian and ATI Technologies will result in Appian’s massive adoption of ATI RADEON VE aka RADEON 7000 graphics chip, but this is the reality now – currently Appian only sells graphics cards based on the mentioned chips.

In fact, we could guess about Appian moving to graphics chips from ATI already in 2000, since Permedia, S3 Savage/MX and Appian AGX graphics processors seemed to be outdated already then, while ATI and Appian announced their collaboration. As a result, ATI licensed Appian’s HYDRAVISION technology and later allowed the company to launch its own Hurricane graphics card based on ATI RADEON VE chip in 2001.

Today is the 17^th of May 2003 and here is what Appian offers us:

• Appian Hurricane – ATI RADEON VE graphics processor; 32MB of DDR SDRAM; Supports up to two analog monitors or a combination of one DVI flat panel and an analog monitor; AGP and PCI versions available.
• Appian Typhoon - ATI RADEON VE graphics processor; 64MB of DDR SDRAM; Supports up to two DVI flat-panels or analog monitors; AGP and PCI low-profile versions available.
• Appian Rushmore – 2 ATI RADEON VE graphics processors; 64MB of DDR SDRAM; Supports up to four DVI flat-panels or analog monitors; PCI versions available.

All the other products based on different graphics processors are now moved to “Legacy Products” section.

I wonder when Appian adopts something more powerful, for instance, ATI RADEON 7500 or 9000 graphics processors?