AMD ATHLON(tm) MP PROCESSOR BOOSTS PERFORMANCE OF PINNACLE SYSTEMS LEADING VIDEO
EDITING SOFTWARE


- High-performance AMD Athlon(tm) MP processors
provide increased productivity for high-end commercial video editing
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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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