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ATI's Radeon(tm) 9700 pro PROVES HUGE HIT WITH MAJOR UK SYSTEM INTEGRATORS LONDON, UK - 26 November 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced the RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO is leading the graphics industry with a barrage of design wins. ATI's groundbreaking RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO visual processing unit (VPU) is driving the visual revolution with numerous tier one and custom PC makers in the UK including Time, Evesham, MESH, Multivision, Systemax, Dixons and NEC.

Launched earlier this year, the RADEON 9700 PRO has blown all competition out of the water with its cinematic-quality images and breakneck speeds, thrilling gamers and PC enthusiasts.

"The profusion of design wins from the world's top computer manufacturers proves ATI hit the mark with enthusiasts and mainstream consumers with the RADEON 9700 PRO," said Peter Edinger, Vice President and Managing Director, ATI Technologies (Europe) GmbH. "We're working closely with each of our partners to deliver a combination of the most feature rich and performance driven graphics products currently available in the market - and what's more we're doing it on time!", concluded Mr Edinger.

"ATI's new products are meeting with massive success," said Dr. Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie Research, the leading analyst firm in graphics and multimedia. "The company has really hit the mark with its RADEON 9700 product - and obviously customers are happy with what they see. ATI's products garnered a large number of the new design wins for this season from OEMs and add-in-board manufacturers world-wide. It's a good indicator that things are going well for ATI, and the industry."

The world's first VPU, the RADEON 9700 PRO, can be found in the following:
* MESH - Matrix XP 2700+ RD97 (A-List)
* Time - Platina series (730, 830, 930)
* Evesham - Evolution 2500R97 and 2800 A-List
* Systemax - Inspire 7342
* NEC - PowerMate XL4 and XL5


The RADEON 9000 PRO and/or RADEON 9000 can be found in the following:

* MESH - All of the Elite range and several high spec Matrix
models
* Time - Platina series (430, 530, 630)
* Multivision - Vision Eclipse T3
* Systemax - Inspire 7342, 7137
- Reliance 5400, 5420, 5460
* Dixons - Dixons Advent 3829BTO
* Packard Bell - Packard Bell range of desktop PCs

ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO boasts a number of key features that power an extreme level of graphics quality and performance, triumphing over every other product on the market. Its architecture features eight fully-programmable parallel rendering pipelines, full floating point architecture, Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support, and AGP 8X support.

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About the Company
ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost visual processing unit (VPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld markets. With 2001 revenues in excess of US $1 billion, ATI has more than 1,900 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
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