Project 2.

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Project 2.

• Ashton Valerio
• CGS 1060
• Lab 0021
• Lecture0002

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• ATI, Inc. Founded in 1985.
• A pioneer in the computer graphics industry, ATI
  provides cutting edge visual processor
  technology.
• One of the leading manufacturers in video card
  hardware, ATI has become the official graphics
  card of games like Half-Life 2 a major PC game
  release in 2004.

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• ATIs newest product, the Radeon 9800 Series is
  considered one of the most advanced graphics
  cards on the market.
• The 9800 features unprecedented technologies like
  its highly programmable cinematic shader engines.
• The video card boasts 256 MB of DDR Ram and
  supports both Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and Open G/L.

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• ATI Technologies, Inc. reported a year end fiscal
  revenue for the year ending in August, 2003 in
  excess of 1.3 billion dollars.
• ATI also reported that by the end of 2003 the
  company had grown to 2,700 full time employees in
  France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and
  in fifteen other countries.

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• Pixar Animation Studios, the 1 computer
  animation studio in America began as the computer
  graphics division of Lucasfilm, Ltd. Until bought
  and becoming a separate entity.
• Pixar has its first computer animation jobs
  making Listerine, Kellog's and many other
  commercials in the early to mid 90s.

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• Pixar Animation goes public in 1995 with
  6,900,000 shares of stock selling for 22 a
  share.
• It beats Netscape as the biggest IPO of the
  fiscal year.

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Top Grossing Pixar Animated Feature Films
Toy Story 2 485 Million World Wide.
Toy Story 362 Million World Wide
Monsters, Inc. 100 Million in 9 Days.
A Bugs Life 362 Million World Wide.

Finding Nemo 70.2 Million in its first weekend.
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• Finding innovative solutions to mainly network
  related problems, Visual Networks has earned
  respect within computer related business fields.

• Visual Networks has been a vastly growing
  computer- systems company since it began.

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Visual Networks.

• Visual Networks increases application and Network
  availability .
• Optimizes the use of bandwith.
• Reduces operating costs across IP-based
  infrastructure.

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• Visual Networks most popular product is Visual
  up Time a standards based performance
  management system.

• It manages networks to control problems and
  optimize bandwidth.

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Stock Table for ATI, Pixar, and Visual Networks.
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• In chart form.