ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Chipset for Intel PCs Announced

ATI Technologies today introduced the new Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset delivering integrated graphics on the Intel mobile and desktop computing platform.

Graphics Engine on the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 for Intel Notebooks delivers full DirectX 9.0 compatibility with support for vertex and pixel shader 2.0. Integrated AVIVO video processing engine provides hardware acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and WMV9. ATI’s Radeon Xpress 1250 for Intel powered laptops uses a unified memory architecture which allocates some system memory for a video buffer. The minimum amount of allocated memory is 16MB while the maximum is 512MB. As far as system memory goes a maximum of 16GB of DDR2 is supported in 400, 533, 667 and 800 MHz flavors, Laptop Logic reports.

According to press release, ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 is Windows Vista-ready and is designed to handle Vista’s Aero Glass features.

The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 will be available through leading notebook OEMs, ATI published.

The first notebook that incorporates the Radeon Xpress 1250 is the NEC LaVie L Advanced Type notebook, which was announced for the Japanese market today.

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