Press Release: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor Boosts Performance Of Pinnacle Systems Leading Video Editing Software
Posted By Kathy Smith
Date: December 13, 2001
High-performance AMD Athlon(tm) MP processors provide increased productivity for high-end commercial video editing.
SUNNYVALE, CA-DECEMBER 13,
2001-AMD today announced that Pinnacle Systems
renowned professional digital video editing software 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 system buses with Error Correcting Code (ECC) support designed
to provide up to 2.1GB per second per CPU of bus bandwidth in a dual-processor
system. Smart MP technology also has an optimized Modified Owner Exclusive
Shared Invalid (MOESI) 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 floating point engine, and an exclusive L2
Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB). 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 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, California, 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
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