ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc. was a corporation based in, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 2006. As a major fabrication-less or, ATI conducted in-house and  the  and assembly of its products. ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players in the graphics processors industry, eventually forcing other manufacturers into niche roles.

Acquisition
The acquisition of ATI in 2006 was important to AMD's strategic development of its generation of computer processors, which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within a single chip. ATI is now known as the Radeon Technologies Group and the ATI brand name ceased to be used for since 2010.