AMD Athlon MP Processor Boosts Performance of Pinnacle Systems Leading Video Editing Software.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2001 - High-Performance AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon(tm) MP Processors Provide Increased Productivity for High-End Commercial Video Editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. - AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) today announced that Pinnacle Systems renowned professional digital video editing software Video editing software is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, and add special effects and transitions; and it sometimes includes the has been optimized for the AMD Athlon(tm) MP processor for multiprocessing workstation platforms. FASTstudio.DV is the first Pinnacle Systems software product designed to take advantage of AMD's Smart MP technology for systems using dual AMD Athlon MP processors. High-performance workstations and servers powered by AMD Athlon MP processors can help shorten production cycles and enhance productivity in the commercial video editing market. Smart MP technology allows professional users of FASTstudio.DV to gain a significant performance benefit by enabling more performance from the second processor in combination with AMD's Socket A platform, which is designed to offer stability over time, AMD's high performance multiprocessors provide seamless integration for the enterprise environment. "With their speed, power, and reliability, systems based on the AMD multi-processing platform provide exactly the high-quality hardware foundation on which our demanding FASTstudio software can demonstrate its strengths," says Brad Swenson, Pinnacle Systems product manager. "As expected, the performance, especially in regard to processing power, was exceptional." "Sophisticated software requires high-performance hardware. The professional video tools from Pinnacle Systems are some of the most power-hungry and compute intensive applications on the market," said Richard Heye, vice president of Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD's Computation Products Group. "Our high-performance AMD Athlon MP processor helps deliver shorter production cycles and cost reductions, making it a natural choice for FAST users." About the AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor The AMD Athlon MP processor is a seventh-generation x86 processor designed for high-performance multiprocessing servers and workstations. A key advantage of AMD's multiprocessing platform is Smart MP technology, which greatly enhances overall platform performance by increasing data movement between the two CPUs, chipset and memory system. Smart MP technology features dual point-to-point, high-speed 266MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. system buses with Error Correcting Code (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ) support designed to provide up to 2.1GB per second per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. of bus bandwidth in a dual-processor system. Smart MP technology also has an optimized Modified Owner Exclusive Shared Invalid (MOESI MOESI Modified Owner Exclusive Shared Invalid ) cache coherency protocol that manages data and memory traffic in a multiprocessing environment. The AMD Athlon MP processor features the patented QuantiSpeed(tm) architecture, which includes a high performance full-speed cache with hardware data pre-fetch, a fully pipelined superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. floating point engine, and an exclusive L2 Translation Look-aside Buffer (storage, architecture) Translation Look-aside Buffer - (TLB) A table used in a virtual memory system, that lists the physical address page number associated with each virtual address page number. A TLB is used in conjunction with a cache whose tags are based on virtual addresses. (TLB TLB - Translation Look-aside Buffer ). The processor also incorporates 3DNow!(tm) Professional technology, which has 51 new instructions that extend AMD's 3DNow! technology, enabling smoother, richer and more lifelike images, more precise digital audio and an enriched Internet experience. The AMD Athlon MP processor is compatible with AMD's stable Socket A infrastructure, and supports DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory technology. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AMD had revenues of $4.6 billion in 2000. (NYSE:AMD). About Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems' broadcast, desktop and consumer products provide video professionals and consumers cutting-edge digital video tools to create, store, distribute and view Web-enabled digital video easier and more affordably than ever before. Pinnacle Systems may be reached at 650/526-1600 or at www.pinnaclesys.com Visit AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon and combinations thereof and 3DNow! are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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