In May 1991, the company released the Mach8, ATI's first product able to process graphics without the CPU. By 1987, ATI had grown into an independent graphics card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder graphic card product lines under its brand that year. Working primarily in the OEM field, ATI produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such as IBM and Commodore.
In 1985, ATI was founded as Array Technologies Incorporated by Kwok Yuen Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Ka Lau. These two companies' dominance of the market forced other manufacturers into niche roles. The flagship product, the Radeon series of graphics cards, directly competes with NVIDIA's GeForce. Its main competitor is NVIDIA in the graphics and handheld market. The AMD Graphics Product Group is a fabless semiconductor company conducting in-house research and development and outsourcing the manufacturing and assembly of its products. In 2006, the company was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and was renamed the AMD Graphics Product Group or ATI Technologies ULC, although the ATI brand was retained for graphics cards. (ATI) was a major designer and supplier of graphics processing units and motherboard chipsets.
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