ATI new action: Linux driver and New Catalyst Driver

ATI Senior Product Manager Terry Makedon revealed a lot about the recently released X700 and Catalyst Driver in Cyprus, in addition, he also pointed out that the ATI Linux Driver Support Plan will make significant progress in the coming weeks.

He said ATI has three important goals in the Linux field. At present, the number of Linux users has reached 4%, and ATI will not ignore this part of the market, and the investment will also be proportional to its market share. ATI rebuilt the Linux driver team and joined many new developers. ATI has improved testing procedures, including the adoption of a large number of new testing methods, such as automated testing, to make testing more efficient. At present, ATI's primary task is to develop the Linux driver of PCI Express and support AMD 64.

SuSE Novell said in a statement that it expects to provide more details in the coming weeks.

In addition, according to Makedon, The X800, X600, and X300 PCI Express chips of ATI have been shipped to more than 1 million chips. Intel and ATI work closely with each other in the PCI Express workgroup.

In addition, he also mentioned that the Catalyst Driver panel will provide automatic update function in the future. It will also have improved color and video management, and support ATI's full range of graphics chips. In early October, ATI will launch Catalyst AI, which can analyze applications and games and provide the best graphic performance. However, this Catalyst AI will only optimize games and applications, rather than Benchmark Testing. Makedon revealed that the Catalyst AI will be able to optimize DOOM 3 and improve performance by 22%.

From: xunjing