
announced forming technology alliance with XGI Technology Inc. On 6 March 2006, ATI Technologies announced the acquisition of Shanghai-based MacroSynergy, a fabless chip designer and XGI Technology alliance company, as well as related personnel working out of XGI Technology’s Santa Clara, California location. Many reviewers though were pessimistic of the possibility that XGI would be competitive in the 3D graphic card market. Even so, XGI cards received good reviews in the low price/low performance video card market: XGI Volari V3 cards were judged by some reviewers to be competitive and even superior to equally priced video cards that were on the market, such as a Nvidia GeForce MX 4000 card. Some of the many performance and visualization problems were blamed on underdeveloped drivers. This was seen as part of a potentially successful attempt to become competitive with ATI Technologies and Nvidia Corporation, which were the two largest GPU manufacturers in the world at the time.Ī few months after the announced release, XGI graphics cards were found by enthusiasts and hardware reviewers to be less than competitive with ATi and Nvidia cards.

History įounded in June 2003 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2003, XGI announced the Volari Duo, a graphics card with two GPUs. (Chinese: 圖誠科技 pinyin: Tú Chéng Kējì) is based upon the old graphics division of SiS spun off as a separate company, and the graphics assets of Trident Microsystems. Since there no storage expansion in the form an external card slot. However, make sure to remove the bloatware to make really good use of the phone.

