ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced that its RADEON family of products offers the most comprehensive support for the new 3D graphics features of DirectX 8.0. DirectX 8.0 is Microsoft´s latest set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that provide developers with improved access to the advanced features of high-performance hardware, including 3D graphics accelerators. The latest version of DirectX introduces support for a host of advanced graphical techniques, including volume textures, pixel & vertex shaders, higher order surfaces, and more.

The CHARISMA ENGINE and PIXEL TAPESTRY technologies found in ATI´s RADEON graphics processors were designed from the ground up with DirectX 8.0 features in mind.

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