ATI Technologies Memorabilia

Company: ATI Technologies Inc.
Based: Ontario Canada
Founded: 1985 as Array Technologies Inc. (Acquired by AMD in 2006)
Founders: K.Y. Ho, Lee Ka Lau, Benny Lau & Francis Lau
Specialty: Fabless Semiconductor company, developed PC graphics cards, video capture cards, TV tuner cards, XENOS graphics core for the XBOX 360, graphics processing units (GPU) and chipsets.

ATI office in Santa Clara

​ATI Xbox 360 "XENOS" GPU Chip Keychain (2005)
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This Lucite keychain from the ATI GPU developemnt team contains an ATI "Xenos" GPU with embedded DRAM that was used in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console. ​

The Xbox 360 GPU was composed of two chips integrated onto one package: The GPU core processor chip manufactured by TSMC, and the eDRAM memory chip manufactured by NEC.


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ATI Xbox 360 GPU

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VIDEO: Evolution of Video Game Graphics (2015)

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