“ATI congratulates AMD on the announcement of the Athlon XP Processor,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of Marketing & General Manager, Desktop Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. “As before, this latest processor from AMD is fully supported by all current ATI hardware and software driver technologies, including the award-winning RADEON 8500, which will result in a faster, more significantly-enhanced 3D visual experience for both AMD and ATI customers.”
“The AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ with Quantispeed architecture offers outstanding performance and is the perfect marriage with ATI’s newest line of RADEON 8500 graphics cards,” said Richard Heye, Vice President, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure, Computation Products Group for AMD. “We’re confident that consumers can benefit from the combination and can finally take advantage of advanced architectures that offer incredible performance for today’s PC desktop systems.”
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