AMD Introduces 1.33GHz AMD Athlon Processor, Delivering Uncompromising Performance for Business and Home Computing.Business Editors & Technology Writers HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001 1.33GHz 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) processor and 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-based platforms outperform Intel Pentium(R) 4 1.5GHz processor-based platforms by up to 40% Compaq, micronpc.com among OEMs worldwide with immediate availability At CeBIT, AMD today announced its continued industry leadership position by introducing the 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processors. The 1.33GHz AMD Athlon(TM) processor-based platforms with Double Data Rate (DDR) memory outperform the Intel Pentium(R) 4 processor-based platforms by up to 40 percent on a variety of benchmarks, including video encoding, audio, video and image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. , and 3D modeling and animation. Systems featuring AMD's newest processors are available now from leading U.S. manufacturers such as Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and micronpc.com, as well as from top manufacturers abroad, including German-based MAXDATA. "With its innovative and intelligent core design, systems based on the AMD Athlon processor and DDR memory continue to surpass all competitive PC processor systems in overall performance," said Dirk Meyer Dirk Meyer was co-architect of the DEC Alpha 21064 and 21264 microprocessors. He also worked at Intel in its microprocessor design group. He joined AMD in 1996, where he personally led the team that designed and developed the AMD Athlon processor. , group vice president for AMD's Computation Products Group. "The 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor, in conjunction with DDR memory technology, provides performance unrivaled by any Intel Pentium 4 processor-based platform available in the market today." "With this addition to the Presario 7000Z family, consumers will discover thrilling overall system performance. The powerful combination of the 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor and DDR memory offers unheralded levels of performance for power users who demand a realistic 3D experience, cutting-edge broadband technologies like streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video, and the ability to quickly create and edit professional quality videos," said Mark Vena, director, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. Desktop Product Marketing, Compaq Consumer Group. AMD continues to build on its success in the consumer desktop market. Leveraging this success, the AMD Athlon processor has recently been selected to power commercial desktops from leading manufacturers - like Micron and MAXDATA - and is being used by top-level customers such as the Italian government. "MAXDATA's enterprise customers are continually looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to increase their employees' productivity levels. Our Fortune systems featuring the 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processor are designed to meet that expectation, while also giving a sense of security that a rock-solid and compatible platform provides," said Juergen Werneke, director, Product Management, MAXDATA Computer GmbH & Co. KG. Digital video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. applications realize excellent performance gains under the 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor, as affirmed by companies such as Ulead and Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry is the former developer of various media software suites, which were purchased by Sony in late 2003. Sonic Foundry's current product line consists of the webcasting, presentation software Mediasite. . "We have found the 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor backed with DDR memory to be a high-performance platform for digital video editing," said J. Scott Huston, director of Marketing at Ulead Systems Ulead Systems is a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu district in Taipei, Taiwan. History Ulead was founded in August 5, 1989 by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen. , Inc. "Using this AMD Athlon processor with Ulead VideoStudio Ulead VideoStudio is a video editing software from Ulead. Being one of the most powerful ones available to a mass commercial market, it allows amateurs to create and edit audio and video in a professional style. 5.0 yielded outstanding results in quickly rendering overlays, applying video filter effects and editing MPEG-2 video files." "After testing and benchmarking in the Sonic Foundry test labs, we found the 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor together with DDR memory to be an excellent platform for digital video, especially when used in conjunction with our Sonic Foundry Vegas Video software," said Michael Bryant There have been several well-known people named Michael Bryant, including:
With the launch of the 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processors and the growth of a long-lasting, stable infrastructure for AMD Socket A processors, AMD continues to take advantage of new technology, like DDR memory. In October 2000, AMD launched the AMD-760(TM) chipset, the world's first commercially available DDR chipset for the PC platform. Since then, infrastructure for DDR has grown to include more than 50 different motherboards, either available or in development, based on four different chipsets from four different manufacturers, including AMD. The 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processors are based on the Socket A infrastructure, giving commercial customers a stable and reliable platform to design standardized software images, lowering the total cost of ownership and setting the standard for unparalleled business productivity. Designed to provide tangible performance benefits for users who create digital content, perform engineering or scientific simulations, use 3D modeling, animation, and rendering applications, or carry out complex financial analysis, the 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processors give you the all-day, everyday computing power you need. Pricing The 1.33GHz AMD Athlon processor, featuring a 266MHz front side bus, is priced at $350 in 1,000-unit quantities. The 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processor, featuring a 200MHz front side bus, is priced at $318 in 1,000-unit quantities. For more information on AMD Athlon processor pricing, please visit http://www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/pricing.html. AMD Athlon(TM) Processor Awards The AMD Athlon processor has won more than 70 awards worldwide. For a complete listing, please visit http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/awards/athlon.html About the AMD Athlon Processor The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue 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. microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache architecture, now featuring 384KB of total on-chip cache (256KB of on-chip level (L2) cache and 128KB of on-chip level (L1) cache); enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology with 24 additional instructions A charge given to a jury by a judge after the original instructions to explain the law and guide the jury in its decision making. Additional instructions are frequently needed after the jury has begun deliberations and finds that it has a question concerning the evidence, a designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive communications. The AMD Athlon processor features either a 266MHz Front Side Bus (FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus ) or a 200MHz FSB based on the Alpha(TM) EV6 bus protocol. AMD Athlon processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas and AMD's 0.18 micron copper process technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. 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 produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $4.6 billion in 2000. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD). Visit AMD on the Web For more information about today's announcement, please visit our virtual pressroom at http://www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases and information about AMD and its products are available at: http://www.amd.com/news/news.html AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon, 3DNow! and combinations thereof, and AMD-760 are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Alpha is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Other product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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