<br><blockquote><i>SolidWorks World - Orlando, Florida – Bringing a high-end feature set and impressive performance to the mid-range workstation market, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today introduced and began shipping the FireGL™ V5000 workstation graphics accelerator. With an MSRP of $699 USD and features previously available only to users with high-end graphics accelerators, the FireGL V5000 brings this high-end functionality to a wider range of design professionals.<p>
Doubling the performance of the previous generation product, the FireGL V5000 gives users advanced features such as dual DVI connectors for multi-display applications, dual link support for 9 megapixel displays, stereo 3D capabilities with quad-buffered support, eight pixel pipelines, six geometry engines, increased sub-pixel precision and 128MB of GDDR3 memory. Also featuring a low power consumption design, the FireGL V5000 cards are certified with all the leading 3D applications, such as Discreet 3dsmax®, Autodesk® VIZ 2005, Catia®, Maya®, Softimage®|XSI® and SolidWorks®.<p>
“Fast and accurate visualization of 3D models is critical to automotive and product designers,â€