ATI Technologies Inc. today introduced a graphics accelerator upgrade program for workstation customers in North America and Europe. Recognizing that engineers, designers and animators need the best equipment, including high performance graph
ics accelerators, to meet their demanding deadlines, ATI is offering an instant rebate to customers trading-in older workstation graphics products from ATI or its competitors. The rebate, which ranges from $40 to $85 per board, may be applied to the purchase of one of ATI's current lineup of best-in-class FireGL workstation graphics accelerators.

"For existing FireGL customers, this is a rebate to recognize their loyalty to the brand,"said Drew Singh, Director of Workstation Sales, ATI Technologies Inc.. "For customers that are new to the FireGL products, this is an added incentive to trade-in their older graphics product from another company and experience the power and increased productivity of a FireGL graphics accelerator from ATI."

Customers participating in the upgrade program can choose to apply their instant rebate to the FireGL T2-128, the FireGL Z1-128 or the FireGL X1-128. Each of these products has been certified for use with the leading DCC and CAD applications and ship with a unified driver that supports the entire range of FireGL accelerators. Customers can also access ATI's dedicated FireGL support team to identify features and benefits of the FireGL products that can increase productivity and to resolve technical issues quickly.

Details on the rebate amounts and eligible products are available at ati.com/FireGL.

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