7月4日,加拿大著名的3D图形芯片及多媒体技术供应厂商ATI公司在广州发布了其最新桌上型电脑强力图形处理器—镭(RADEON)。镭的问世奠定了ATI在强调效能顶尖的高档个人电脑与工作站市场的领导地位。镭是目前第一片采用0.18微米工艺技术制造,内含3千万颗晶体的图形芯片;也是第一片支持128MB显存,200MHz DDR SDRAM的图形芯片,它可以每秒生成3000万个三角形,达到每秒15亿个像素的填充率,并且内含硬件HDTV解码器。镭 On July 4, ATI, a leading 3D graphics chip and multimedia technology provider in Canada, released its newest desktop graphics processor, RADEON, in Guangzhou. The advent of radium has laid ATI’s leadership position in the market for high-end PCs and workstations that emphasize efficiency. Radium is currently the first to use 0.18 micron process technology, containing 30 million crystal graphics chip; is also the first to support 128MB of video memory, 200MHz DDR SDRAM graphics chip, which can generate 30 million triangles per second, to 1.5 billion pixels per second fill rate, and includes hardware HDTV decoder. radium