Origin of ATI & NVIDIA?

[oymd]

as the title says....any idea what the names stand for??

 

[oymd]

bump....

anyone??

 

[michael11699]

You got me.

What say you GenteticWeapon or TheGreatGrapeApe?

 

[pauldh]

ATI = Advanced Technological Innovations

Actually that's the only guess I could think up over the last minute. But It doesn't go with the whole ATI Technologies, Inc. name, so it was a lame guess.

Here's a history lesson of ATI. I have never seen the name exlained before though. Hopefully someone else can help.

<A HREF="http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=477" target="_new">http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=477</A>



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[oymd]

i find it quiet amazing that these r 2 of the most talked about companies on this forum...which is probably the biggest computer related forum on the planet...and still we have no idea what they stand for...

Google didnt help...

and the various trips many enthusiast sites took to their headquarters never mentioned what their name stands for...

funny....NO?

 

[phial]

<A HREF="http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=ATi" target="_new">heres what it used to be apparently</A>

<A HREF="http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1129867" target="_new">another thread that says the same</A>

all i can guess is that Array Technologies Incorporated lost the meaning that it used to have, as the company grew and changed


as for nvidia? they arent worth the time it takes to google. one of the brand-name-whores can fill us in on that one

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Here's one of the threads that appears in Rage3D every once in a while, but yes PHIAL is correct Array Technologies Inc.

<A HREF="http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=f6926368dababb5d447b83eae0c68b90&threadid=33693825" target="_new">http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=f6926368dababb5d447b83eae0c68b90&threadid=33693825</A>

And I'll stand by Phial's second statement because it's not an endevour I'm interested in engaging.


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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

BTW, more on the origina of ATI from FiringSquad, quite an elaborate article;

<A HREF="http://www.firingsquad.com/features/atihistory/" target="_new">http://www.firingsquad.com/features/atihistory/</A>

I don't see anything about the name in their article about the history of nV;

<A HREF="http://www.firingsquad.com/features/nvidiahistory/" target="_new">http://www.firingsquad.com/features/nvidiahistory/</A>


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