Thursday, July 3, 2003
ATI Technologies Inc. has agreed an extension to a patent cross-license agreement it has with Intel Corp. giving the right to build graphics processors that support Intel's Pentium4 800-MHz bus, the so-called 'front side bus' that operates at a clock frequency of 400-MHz but can transfer data twice per clock cycle, ATI said Thursday (July 3, 2003).
Intel already supports this bus with a peripheral logic chipset of its own and the license would help ATI compete against Intel.
"This agreement will provide our customers with new choices and flexibility in the development and configuration of their Pentium 4 systems," said Louis Burns, an executive with the desktop platforms group of Intel, in a statement.
Dave Orton, president and chief operating officer of ATI, said the agreement would allow ATI to integrate a version of its Radeon graphics processor architecture with its peripheral logic chipsets for Pentium4 based systems that use the FSB-800 interface.
By: DocMemory
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