ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
AMD
Original Series
Radeon X
Release Date
December 1st, 2004
Launch Price
$349
PCB Code
109-A61001-00
P/N Code
102-A61002-00
Model
AMD A610 SKU 002
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
R430
Architecture
ATI R400
Fabrication Process
110 nm
Die Size
240 mm2
Transistors Count
160M
Transistors Density
666.7K TRAN/mm2
Pixel Pipelines
16
Vertex Pipelines
6
TMUs
16
ROPs
16
Clocks
Base Clock
400 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
490 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
980 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
512 MB
Memory Type
GDDR3
Memory Bus Width
256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
31.4 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 1.0 x16
Height
1-slot
TDP/TBP
49 W
Recommended PSU
300 W
Display Outputs
DVI-I DualLink
2 ×
S-Video
1 ×
API Support
DirectX
9.0b
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
2.0
OpenCL
-

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
6.4 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
6.4 GTexel/s




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB - -
 
980 Mbps
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum - -
 
1.2 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP - -
 
1.2 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum AGP - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 XT - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 XT VIVO - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 PRO - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XT - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 GT - -
 
986 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP - -
 
986 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 PRO - -
 
900 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP - -
 
900 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 SE AGP - -
 
800 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 VE AGP - -
 
796 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB - -
 
980 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XL AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 GTO - -
 
800 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP - -
 
980 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 GTO2 - -
 
980 Mbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 - -
 
700 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 AGP - -
 
700 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X600 XT - -
 
740 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 XT - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 PRO - -
 
860 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 PRO AGP - -
 
860 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X800 SE - -
 
1.4 Gbps
 
128 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X550 - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X550 XT - -
 
600 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X600 - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X600 PRO - -
 
600 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 AGP - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 LE - -
 
700 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X700 SE - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon X600 SE - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 64b
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ATI Radeon X300 - -
 
400 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X300 LP - -
 
400 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X300 LE - -
 
400 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 128b
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ATI Radeon X300 SE - -
 
400 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 64b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB - -
 
980 MB/s
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 GT - -
 
980 MB/s
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XL - -
 
980 MB/s
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB - -
 
980 MB/s
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 XL AGP - -
 
1 GB/s
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 - -
 
700 MB/s
 
256 MB D1 256b
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ATI Radeon X800 AGP - -
 
700 MB/s
 
256 MB D1 256b

Radeon X800 Series

Massive Performance and Innovative Image Technology

The Radeon® X800 graphics technology, award-winning 3D performance, with up to 16 pipelines, higher clock speeds and breakthrough image enhancement technology, Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology introduced a whole new gaming category called High-Definition Gaming.

Ground-Breaking Speed
Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology delivers frame rates that surpass all previous graphics processors and up to two times the performance of the acclaimed Radeon® 9800 PRO. Radeon® X800 graphics technology provides an extremely smooth, responsive HD gaming experience, putting capable gamers in complete control of even the most demanding game titles. A new architecture based on the latest .13 micron, low-k manufacturing process with ultra fast and efficient GDDR3 memory combine to produce extreme data rates and unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot solution.

Breakthrough Image Quality
Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology defined a totally new High-Definition Gaming experience for the avid gamer by maximizing performance and image quality in higher detail and at higher resolutions than ever before. ATI‘s 3Dc™ image enhancement technology brings characters to life and scenery to greater realism by enabling significant improvements to the image detail of character art with increased performance and lower memory usage.3Dc™ is the industry standard to support more complex high-definition visual effects in real time.

Technologically Advanced 3D Architecture
Radeon® X800 graphics technology features SmartShader™ HD, the most advanced pixel shader engine with up to 16 parallel pixel pipelines capable of an incredible 6 gigapixels/second fill rate in full precision! With six programmable vertex shader pipelines, capable of up to 700 million vertices per second and an overall capability of over 200 billion floating point operations per second(Giga FLOPS), Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology delivers beautifully rendered high-definition 3D animation for intense, interactive game play.

Cutting Edge Video Technology
Radeon® X800 graphics technology gives you more than just a great gaming experience. It also has sophisticated video processing, filtering and acceleration features that make multimedia applications more efficient, inspiring and fun. With VideoShader™ HD, Radeon® X800 graphics technology takes advantage of its advanced shader processing engine for user programmable video effects, video quality enhancement, and encoding and decoding of many video standards, including MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9. Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology also supports the latest high-definition and wide display formats, giving users bigger and more vivid movie, gaming and Internet experiences.

DirectX® 9.0 Leadership Continues
Over the past several years ATI has established a legacy of providing the highest performing Microsoft® DirectX® graphics card solutions. Radeon® X800 graphics technology offers unparalleled DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 2.0 shader support to ensure that current and upcoming games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Stability is the foundation of the Radeon® X800 Graphics Technology
Acclaimed by industry leaders, ATI’s award winning Catalyst® software driver suite optimizes the graphics processor performance of ATI’s desktop products while ensuring maximum stability and user control. Catalyst® provides frequent driver updates backed by ATI customer support, to ensure complete satisfaction.

Radeon® X800 is certified by Imaging Science Research Labs Inc.
The Imaging Science Research Labs (ISF RL) certification and logo identify ATI’s Media Center Edition-ready products as best-in-class multimedia components, tested and verified to meet a superior level of technical performance, and the approval of the most discerning eye and ear.

X800 Series Specifications

Radeon X800 Technology Specifications
  • 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k fabrication process
  • Up to sixteen extreme parallel pixel pipelines
  • Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
  • 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
  • AGP 8X support or PCI Express ™ support
SmartShader™ HD
  • Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
  • DirectX® 9.0 Vertex Shaders
    • Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
    • Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
  • DirectX® 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
    • Up to 1,536 instructions and 16textures per rendering pass
    • 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
    • 32 temporary and constant registers
    • Facing register for two-sided lighting
    • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
    • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
  • Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions
SmoothVision™ HD
  • 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
    • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
    • Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
    • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
    • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
    • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options
3Dc™
  • High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
  • Works with any two-channel data format
HyperZ™ HD
  • 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
  • Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
  • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
  • Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
VideoShader™ HD
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
  • VideoSoap™ noise removal filtering for captured video
  • MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
    • DXVA Support
    • Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
  • All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
  • YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays†
  • Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
  • Dual integrated display controllers
  • Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready*)
  • Integrated TV Output support up to 1024×768 resolution
  • Windows® Logo Program compliant
  • Catalyst® Software Suite

* This feature is supported by the asic and can be specified by PC manufacturers for its add-in-boards. This feature is not typically enabled on stand alone cards

2D DISPLAY MODES
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Monitor ResolutionHz
640×480200
800×600200
1024×768200
1152×864200
1280×1024160
1600×1200120
1920×1080* 16:9120
1920×1200100
1920×144090
2048×153685

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920×1080 and 848×480 on Windows® XP, and Windows® 2000. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS

65K colors2048×1536
16.7M colors2048×1536

† With optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store

ATI Revolutionizes PC Gaming with Introduction of RADEON’TM’ X800, The World’s Fastest Visual Processor

RADEON(TM) X800 Ushers in New Era of High Definition Gaming
MARKHAM, Ontario–May 4, 2004–

“RADEON X800 is awesome! The speed it can run shaders at high resolutions with all the features turned on allows us to bring Battlefield 2 to life like never before. ATI has done a great job again”

To the delight of gamers everywhere, ATI Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ATYT) (TSX:ATY) today launched its RADEON(TM) X800 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) which will deliver the industry’s most awesome gaming experience possible on a PC. With the introduction of the RADEON X800, ATI continues its two year reign as the industry leader in high-end graphics for gaming and ushers in a new era, High Definition Gaming. Worldwide system integrators, original equipment manufacturers and board partners are excited to deliver RADEON X800 powered systems and boards beginning immediately.Gamers using computers powered by RADEON X800 will enjoy a higher performance, immersive gaming experience that looks better than ever before. This High Definition Gaming experience is the PC equivalent to watching a sporting event on an HDTV. This is made possible by the highly scalable and efficient architecture of the RADEON X800 that uses 16 parallel pixel pipes and 6 vertex pipes to process more than 8 billion pixels and almost 800 million vertices per second.

“The RADEON X800 builds on the great success of the RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9800, the most sought-after high-end visual processors in the world,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President Marketing, General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “With the RADEON X800, the design team has accomplished something that no one thought was possible. Not only have they developed the highest-performing and most efficient graphics architecture in the world, they have done so while maintaining high levels of stability, reliability and manufacturability.”

ATI has used the most advanced technologies available to design and manufacture its new RADEON X800 graphics chips. Using the successful low k .13 micron semiconductor process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., ATI created a scalable, highly parallel and powerful visual processor that is twice as fast as today’s performance leader, the RADEON(TM) 9800 XT. The advanced fabrication process and leading-edge GDDR3 memory have also enabled ATI and its board partners to deliver high-performance, user-friendly graphics card solutions which will work in customer’s existing PCs without requiring radical and costly power supply or cooling upgrades.

“RADEON X800 is awesome! The speed it can run shaders at high resolutions with all the features turned on allows us to bring Battlefield 2 to life like never before. ATI has done a great job again,” said Torbjorn Laedre and Torbjorn Soderman, Lead Render Programmers, Digital Illusions CE.

The RADEON X800 includes innovative new features that will enhance a gamer’s experience immediately and will help game developers deliver great games for the future. For example, ATI’s new compression technology 3Dc(TM), will easily allow game developers to create better-looking games by using high-resolution normal maps. Normal maps are used to give characters and scenes high levels of detail without the performance hit that would normally be associated with using high-polygon models. For gamers this means that their games will look better than ever without impacting performance, which is of utmost importance in high definition gaming.

“As soon as we began working with normal mapping in our games, we quickly realized that one of our biggest bottlenecks was going to be the memory usage of un-compressed normal map textures. Up until now, our only options have been to use some kind of low-quality compression, or to cut back on the number and size of normal mapped assets,” said Rowan Wyborn, Irrational Games. “With 3Dc, we finally have a high-quality compression solution that gives almost perfect results, with 4:1 savings in texture memory. This will allow us to put much finer detail into objects than we could previously and increase the number of normal mapped assets we can put in our games without blowing our texture budget.”

“Ritual Entertainment will use ATI’s new 3Dc normal map compression technology to double the detail in our next generation game environments,” said Doug Service, Director of Technology Development, Ritual Entertainment. “Thanks to ATI, we can now create normal maps with twice the amount of detail that use the same amount of memory as our original uncompressed normal maps. This will lead to an outstanding increase in visual fidelity for the characters and the entire scene. Ultimately, what ATI’s 3Dc normal map compression technology means to gamers is more highly detailed game worlds and a more immersive game play experience.”

The RADEON X800 builds upon ATI’s success delivering visual processors for the high-end gaming and computer enthusiast market. “Currently nearly 80% of high-performance DirectX(R) 9 graphics cards shipping are powered by ATI’s visual processors,” said Dean McCarron, Mercury Research. “The new RADEON X800 series visual processors demonstrate ATI’s continued focus on the high-end segment of the PC graphics market.”

ATI and its worldwide board partners will offer several configurations of graphics boards based on the RADEON X800 chips. Board partners that will be shipping RADEON X800 products include ABIT, ASUS, Celestica, Club 3D, Connect 3D, Creative, Diamond, Elsa, FIC, Gigabyte, Hightech Information Systems, Info-Tek, MSI, Sapphire, Tul, VisionTek, Xpertvision and Yuan.

System Integrators including ABS, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, VoodooPC and ZT Group, will include the RADEON X800 in their systems for customers who want the ultimate gaming PC.

ATI will offer two RADEON X800 products, the RADEON(TM) X800 XT Platinum Edition and the RADEON(TM) X800 PRO through retail, system integrator and OEM partners.

For the competitive gamers who demand the best performance bar-none, the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition will be powered by a 16-pipe pixel processing engine clocked at 520MHz. To take advantage of the massive pixel processing power of the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition, the product has been paired with high-speed 1.12GHz data rate GDDR3 memory and a 256-bit memory interface. The RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition will ship later this month with a suggested retail price of USD $499.

The RADEON X800 PRO, with a suggested retail price of USD $399, will be powered by a 12-pipe pixel processing engine clocked at 475MHz. A 256-bit memory interface and GDDR3 memory with a 900MHz data rate will deliver unmatched performance in its price category. The RADEON X800 PRO is shipping immediately and customers can purchase it online through major retailers in North America starting today. Customers can also purchase the RADEON X800 PRO at ATI’s online store at www.ATI.com.

For more information on the RADEON X800 and its underlying features and technologies, please visit www.ati.com.

About ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world’s foremost visual processor unit (VPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld markets. With 2003 revenues in excess of US $1.3 billion, ATI has more than 2,500 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).

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