ATI has recently announced their x700 PCIe graphics card and a New Catalyst Driver in Cyprus.
At the same time, Ati's product manager Terry makedon also revealed that they are ready to officially launch support for the Linux driver in the coming weeks. He said that Ati's investment in this area will be proportional to linux4% market share.
Makedon also said that ATI has created a new Linux driver development team. The new team contains many new developers. In addition, ATI intends to improve their testing techniques, including automated testing methods, to increase the efficiency of testing programs. He pointed out that Ati's current top priority is to launch the PCIe driver on Linux and increase support for amd64.
We guess that the SuSE Novell conference in the next few weeks will provide more details on this issue.
Makedon also describes the current situation of ati in the PCIe market. It is said that the cumulative sales of x600 and x300 products of ATI company have exceeded 1 million. (Roger, Pacific News Center)
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