Finally ATI released RC2 catalyst drivers. Located on the ATI site.

ATI

The French site PC Inpact have the first pitures of ATi's Radeon X1950 Pro AGP which is clocked higher than its PCI Express counterparts at 600 MHz core and 700 MHz memory instead of the 575 MHz core and 690 MHz memory on PCI Express parts.

Silicon Graphics has sued ATI Technologies, alleging the graphics chipmaker infringed a computer-graphics patent that ATI's competitors have licensed. SGI argues that ATI's Radeon graphics chips use technology in the patent, No. 6,650,327, and seeks unspecified damages.

As you may or may not have heard, ATi is going to be offering a new AA mode coming up soon for single ATi cards. No clue exactly what is/isn't supported yet as they haven't even really announced what it is yet, but rumor has it to be a MSTAA mode (alpha to coverage). And since tEd over at Beyond3D once again figured out how to hack the beta Catalyst 6.10 set to get it working I figure it's ok to mention it.

ATi launched their Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card at Taipei today together with their close AIB partners like ASUS, GeCube, Gigabyte, HIS, PowerColor and Sapphire. Radeon X1950 Pro uses the new Crossfire bridge interconnect cables without need for a Crossfire master card and the dongle. Check out each manufacturer's solution here!

VR-Zone

ATI is releasing today a new version of their CrossFire technology, dubbed Native CrossFire, correcting two flaws, the need of a ?master? video card and the need of an external cable. Let?s take a look on it.

HardwareSecrets

Another step has been taken in the evolution of the GPU, with ATI's R500 series now providing a significant performance boost for distributed computing.

AnandTech

To complement their recent desktop graphics refresh, ATI have also just made details known about a refresh to some of their notebook Mobility Radeon discrete graphics parts. Elite Bastards take a brief look at these parts, most importantly the Mobility Radeon X1700 - The first graphics core to make use of strained silicon technology.

Pay close attention to the X server log output from ATI's Linux driver, as we did recently with a FireGL V7350, and you'll see mention of support for what we believe is a brand new class of product featuring a modern graphics processor.

As we enter the month of August, we are still left without a WHQL driver incorporating the 'Chuck' patch which allows for the use of HDR alongside anti-aliasing in Oblivion, nor do we have a non-WHQL release of CATALYST 6.7 incorporating this functionality. So, what is the future of the 'Chuck' patch? Elite Bastards asks ATI's Terry Makedon.

Advanced press driver



In order to provide you with the ability to test the world?s fastest processor with world?s best dual graphics solution, ATI is making two special drivers available for press only. The first driver enables two ATI graphics cards to be installed and run in CrossFire mode on the Intel® 975X Express chipset with an Intel® Core? 2 Duo processor or Intel® Core? 2 Extreme Processor. All performance improvements found in this production candidate driver will be made available to the public the first week of June in Catalyst release version 6.6. We ask that you please test with the publicly available Catalyst 6.6 driver or the press version to ensure the best quality benchmarking experience possible, and deliver results that reflect what the public can expect.

Are you interested about Vista?s new graphics driver model as well as some of enhancements ATI has made to the ATI Vista driver ? Than check ATI over here
or download the white paper over
here

ATI are after some feedback on CATALYST Control Center as it stands to pass on to their driver team, so I'd like to hear what you guys currently using ATI boards have to say about it to help pass on the info.

I was just checking some new graphics cards from HiS as we'll be doing a lot of product reviews for them soon and accidentaly stumbled into something very interesting. We all know that ATI is working on Crossfire support without that dreaded dongle cable. Catalyst 6.3 most definitely did not support this feature.

There seems to be a strategy to extend the value to those people that have shelled out for X1800 parts, by allowing Crossfire to work without master hardware, but only on Radeon Xpress 3200 -based mainboards. It's set to be announced after CeBit, and looks like being workable with the entire X1800 range, from XL to XT and possibly All-In-Wonder to boot.

HEXUS

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT), the world leader in mobile PC graphics processors, has once again raised the bar for notebook gaming with the launch of its Mobility? Radeon® X1800 series. ATI Press Release

At a recent analyst session ATI?s Senior VP of PC Business, Rick Bergman, has confirmed that their next generation of PC graphics products will feature much of the technology developed for "Xenos", ATI?s XBOX 360 graphics chip.

Beyond3D

JackAss send us news that CATALYST 6.2 Beta is available ? Check it out if you want and leave some notes. Warp2Search Forums

ATI's Imageon® TV solution offers an end-to-end and multi-band (international) Mobile Digital TV receiver Leveraging its vast expertise in the DTV and handheld markets, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) is introducing a single chip, DVB-H compliant, Mobile TV Receiver solution for mobile phones and other handheld devices. ATI's Imageon® TV solutions are designed to offer handset manufacturers with system-level flexibility, high integration, low power and optimal BOM cost. The WTV100-M is a single chip front-end that integrates a dual-band RF tuner (UHF for Europe and L-Band for US) with a highly integrated DVB-T/DVB-H OFDM demodulator and all necessary discretes in a SiP (System-in-Package). The WTV100-M component interfaces seamlessly to ATI's Imageon media processors, as the audio and video decoders, for a complete and state-of-the-art end-to-end DVB-H solution.

MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2006--As a technology leader in the workstation graphics market, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) is dedicated to developing and supporting key industry transitions such as the movement to 64-bit computing to enable a more highly developed experience for end users.