NEWS / ATI präsentiert die All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro

Endlich ist es so weit: ATI präsentiert eine All-In-Wonder Variante des neuen Radeon 9700 Pro Chips. Noch in diesem Herbst soll die Karte in die Läden kommen. Der Preis soll etwa bei 500 Dollar liegen. Ein stolzer Preis, welcher allerdings auch mit einem Preissturz der 8500 oder 7500er AIW-Platinen verbunden ist. Hier die offizielle Pressemitteilung (Englisch). Mehr Informationen über die neue Platine gibt es bei ATI...

"MARKHAM, Ontario - Multimedia on the PC rises to a new level with today´s announcement from ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) of the ALL-IN-WONDER® 9700 PRO. The world´s fastest multimedia graphics card joins the award-winning ALL-IN-WONDER® family to offer mulTView™ for dual TV tuner support and 128MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory plus more - powered by the new RADEON™ 9700 PRO VPU (visual processor unit) graphics chip with cutting edge 2D and 3D graphics performance.

ATI´s new flagship multimedia video card, ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO, will be available this fall for less than USD$500 and will complement the currently shipping ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 8500DV at USD$199 and the value-priced ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 7500 at USD$149.

"With dual TV tuner support, we´ve delivered a major customer-requested feature," said Godfrey Cheng, Director of Marketing, Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO delivers many great new features that elevate the Home Theater PC to a brand new level. ATI continues to pack the most excitement into one easily installable solution for maximum performance, features and stability - no other multimedia video card can deliver this much entertainment."

"ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO is designed around the critically acclaimed RADEON 9700 PRO - the industry´s first visual processing unit - to deliver top performance, even for hard-core gamers," said Blair Birmingham, Group Product Manager, TV PC Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "This groundbreaking graphics chip includes Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 support, our VIDEOSHADER™ engine and video compression for an extremely high quality video experience. We created ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO for the customer who wants to get the best multimedia experience out of their computer for gaming, video editing and enhanced TV viewing.

"We´re also delivering on the high resolution visual experience in the family room by providing Component Output capabilities (YPrPb) with this product. ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO enables unique support for a non-interlaced display in the family room for DVD, personal video recording (PVR), gaming and other Windows-based applications."