And what will the purchase of a company that has produced nothing but
vaporware do to ATI's release schedules?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/...502054632.html

ATI Acquires Mobile Graphics Processors Developer.
Bitboys Becomes Part of ATI Technologies
by Anton Shilov

[ 05/02/2006 | 05:47 AM ]

Bitboys, a company known for its promises to develop an ultimate
graphics processor for desktops and later switching to mobile graphics
chips, has been acquired by a leading supplier of graphics processors
– ATI Technologies.

ATI acquired privately held Bitboys Oy, a 15-year veteran of the
graphics industry for up to $44 million. The final value is subject to
certain performance-related conditions. According to ATI, Bitboys
brings valuable engineering experience, technology and customer
relationships that enhance ATI’s existing mobile phone multimedia
offerings. Based in Finland, the Bitboys team will be fully integrated
in to ATI’s handheld business unit, and form the nucleus for a key
design centre for ATI in Europe.

ATI is well-known in the mobile phone industry for providing graphics
and multimedia solutions; this acquisition enhances ATI's product
portfolio with a number of technologies, including OpenGL ES 2.0 3D
graphics and OpenVG 1.0 2D vector graphics technologies optimized for
high-volume mainstream mobile phones. These graphics cores will be
supported by ATI’s common software stack which covers its complete
range of multimedia co-processors. This unified software environment
allows developers to easily create content for a range of devices and
offers mobile phone manufacturers faster time to market.

Bitboys is research and development lab, who has been licensing its
technologies to third parties since 2002.

On Tue, 02 May 2006 16:28:49 -0500, lyon_wonder
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>And what will the purchase of a company that has produced nothing but
>vaporware do to ATI's release schedules?

Probably nothing, why should it?
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"lyon_wonder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> And what will the purchase of a company that has produced nothing but
> vaporware do to ATI's release schedules?
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/...502054632.html

Do you know the difference between R&D and "vaporware"?

Your article mentions only a few of Bitboys' many accomplishments.

Bitboys seems to have produced a lot more than just vaporware in the
handheld graphics market.

Besides, $44 million is chomp change nowadays. Didn't Google spend $1
billion for just 5% of AOL a while back?

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"lyon_wonder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> And what will the purchase of a company that has produced nothing but
> vaporware do to ATI's release schedules?
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/...502054632.html
>
> ATI Acquires Mobile Graphics Processors Developer.
> Bitboys Becomes Part of ATI Technologies
> by Anton Shilov
>
> [ 05/02/2006 | 05:47 AM ]
>
> Bitboys, a company known for its promises to develop an ultimate
> graphics processor for desktops and later switching to mobile graphics
> chips, has been acquired by a leading supplier of graphics processors
> - ATI Technologies.
>
> ATI acquired privately held Bitboys Oy, a 15-year veteran of the
> graphics industry for up to $44 million. The final value is subject to
> certain performance-related conditions. According to ATI, Bitboys
> brings valuable engineering experience, technology and customer
> relationships that enhance ATI's existing mobile phone multimedia
> offerings. Based in Finland, the Bitboys team will be fully integrated
> in to ATI's handheld business unit, and form the nucleus for a key
> design centre for ATI in Europe.
>
> ATI is well-known in the mobile phone industry for providing graphics
> and multimedia solutions; this acquisition enhances ATI's product
> portfolio with a number of technologies, including OpenGL ES 2.0 3D
> graphics and OpenVG 1.0 2D vector graphics technologies optimized for
> high-volume mainstream mobile phones. These graphics cores will be
> supported by ATI's common software stack which covers its complete
> range of multimedia co-processors. This unified software environment
> allows developers to easily create content for a range of devices and
> offers mobile phone manufacturers faster time to market.
>
> Bitboys is research and development lab, who has been licensing its
> technologies to third parties since 2002.
>
>
>