Editing ATI Technologies (section)

===Computer graphics chipsets===
* '''[[ATI Wonder series|Graphics Solution / "Small Wonder"]]''' – Series of 8-bit [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] cards with [[Monochrome Display Adapter|MDA]], [[Hercules Graphics Card|Hercules]], [[Color Graphics Adapter|CGA]] and [[Plantronics Colorplus|Plantronics Color+]] compatibility using the United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) [[Motorola 6845|UM6845E CRT controller]]. Later versions added [[Enhanced Graphics Adapter|EGA]] support.
* '''[[ATI Wonder series|EGA / VGA Wonder]]''' – [[IBM]] "[[Enhanced Graphics Adapter|EGA]]/[[Video Graphics Array|VGA]]-compatible" display adapters (1987)
* '''[[ATI Mach|Mach]] Series''' – Introduced ATI's first [[2D computer graphics|2D]] [[graphical user interface|GUI]] "Windows Accelerator". As the series evolved, GUI acceleration improved dramatically and early video acceleration appeared.
* '''[[ATI Rage|Rage]] Series''' – ATI's first 2D and [[3D accelerator]] chips. The series evolved from rudimentary 3D with 2D GUI acceleration and [[MPEG-1]] capability, to a highly competitive [[Direct3D]] 6 accelerator with then "best-in-class" DVD ([[MPEG2]]) acceleration. The various chips were very popular with [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]]s of the time. The Rage II was used in the first ATI [[All-In-Wonder]] multi-function video card, and more advanced All-In-Wonders based on Rage series GPUs followed. (1995–2004)
** '''[[ATI Rage#Mobility|Rage Mobility]]''' – Designed for use in low-power environments, such as notebooks. These chips were functionally similar to their desktop counterparts but had additions such as advanced [[power management]], [[Liquid crystal display|LCD]] interfaces, and [[Multi monitor|dual monitor]] functionality.
* '''[[Radeon]] Series''' – ATI launched the Radeon line in 2000, as their consumer 3D accelerator add-in cards, its flagship product line and the direct competitor to Nvidia's [[GeForce]]. The original ''Radeon DDR'' was ATI's first DirectX 7 3D accelerator, introducing their first hardware [[transform and lighting|T&L]] engine. ATI often produced 'Pro' versions with higher clock speeds, and sometimes an extreme 'XT' version, and even more recently 'XT Platinum Edition (PE)' and 'XTX' versions. The Radeon series was the basis for many ATI All-In-Wonder boards.
** '''[[Radeon|Mobility Radeon]]''' – A series of power-optimized versions of Radeon graphics chips for use in laptops. They introduced innovations such as modularized RAM chips, DVD (MPEG2) acceleration, notebook GPU card sockets, and "[[ATI PowerPlay|PowerPlay]]" power management technology. AMD recently announced DirectX 11-compatible versions of its mobile processors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3209713/amd-launches-directx-11-graphics-chips-for-laptops/ |title=AMD launches DirectX 11 graphics chips for laptops |date=January 8, 2010 |publisher=techworld.com |access-date=January 8, 2010 |archive-date=August 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820020107/http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3209713/amd-launches-directx-11-graphics-chips-for-laptops/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** '''[[ATI CrossFire]]''' – This technology was ATI's response to [[NVIDIA]]'s [[Scalable Link Interface|SLI]] platform. It allowed, by using a secondary video card and a dual PCI-E motherboard based on an ATI Crossfire compatible chipset, the ability to combine the power of the two, three or four video cards to increase performance through a variety of different rendering options. There is an option for additional PCI-E video card plugging into the third PCI-E slot for gaming physics, or another option to do physics on the second video card.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5634 |title=DailyTech report |publisher=Dailytech.com |access-date=February 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810024126/http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5634 |archive-date=August 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* '''[[FireGL]]/FirePro''' – Launched in 2001, following ATI's acquisition of FireGL Graphics from [[Diamond Multimedia]]. Workstation CAD/CAM video card, based on the Radeon series.
* '''[[FireMV]]''' – For workstations, featuring "multi-view", for multiple displays with 2D acceleration only, usually based on low-end products of the Radeon series (now integrated into FirePro series).

Although AMD strongly considered making the functional part of the ATI drivers "open source",<ref>{{cite web |last=Yager |first=Tom |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/32OPcurve_1.html |title='AMD talks about ATI' at |publisher=Infoworld.com |date=August 2, 2006 |access-date=February 19, 2011}}</ref> before the merger with AMD, ATI had no plans to release their graphics drivers as free software:
{{Blockquote|Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of the value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source. In addition, multimedia elements such as content protection must not, by their very nature, be allowed to go open source.|[http://news.cnet.com/2061-10791_3-6104655.html ATI statement, August 2006]}}