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.
Windows
user: I just got a new ATi card, I'm going to OWN so hard in Halflife 2 now!
Linux user: Oh grate an ATi card, I just
love having 10 fps in
Quake arena.