ATI Acquires Bitboys Oy

After NVIDIA bought ULI and Hybrid Graphics Ltd to pump-up mobile graphics capabilities, and released the NVIDIA GoForce 5500, ATI has now acquired a veteran to mobile graphics. ATI has acquired Bitboys Oy for approximately $44 million USD. The focus of this buy-out is on improving ATI's existing mobile phone multimedia offerings -- and will be integrated with the ATI Handheld Business Unit. The official ATI press release is available at ATI Investor Relations.

ATI is well-known in the mobile phone industry for providing high-performance graphics and multimedia solutions; this acquisition enhances ATI's product portfolio with a number of technologies, including OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics and OpenVG 1.0 2D vector graphics technologies optimized for high-volume mainstream mobile phones. These graphics cores will be supported by ATI's common software stack which covers its complete range of multimedia co-processors. This unified software environment allows developers to easily create content for a range of devices and offers mobile phone manufacturers faster time to market.