1. noun; A company that makes video cards.
2. acronym; Array Technologies Incorporated
a little bit of
ATi's history.
ATi was founded in 1985 and worked primarily in the
OEM field, it produced integrated graphics cards for large PC manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. They made Graphics chips for Game systems like the wii (codenamed Hollywood, which is a modified version of the gamecube chip called
flapper) ATi also made the graphics core for the XBOX 360 (codenamed
Xenos).
July 24, 2006, AMD and
ATI announced a plan to merge together where they would go on to make graphics cards with poor Pixel
shader support and a notoriously bad driver set for Linux. Also noted not to work with MS Dos in graphics mode.