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ATHLON(tm) MP PROCESSORS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF SCOOBY-DOO

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AMD ATHLON(tm) MP PROCESSORS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF SCOOBY-DOO


-AMD and Angstrom Microsystems help Rhythm & Hues bring television's
longest-running cartoon to the big screen-


 


SUNNYVALE, CA-JUNE 27, 2002-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today
announced its collaboration with Angstrom Microsystems and Rhythm & Hues in the
production of the Warner Bros. film, Scooby-Doo. Rhythm & Hues employed 42 dual
processor-based Angstrom Microsystems servers, powered by high-performance AMD
Athlon(tm) MP processors 1800+, in the render farm used in the production of the
movie. In addition, Rhythm & Hues benefited from the reliability and stability
of the 25 dual AMD Athlon MP processor-based Angstrom Racer500 graphic
workstations that brought Scooby-Doo to life.


Rhythm & Hues, one of the largest privately held visual
effects houses in North America, is responsible for creating a
computer-generated Scooby, as well as other special effects and integrating them
into the live-action movie.


The power and performance of AMD Athlon processor-based
systems benefits a full range of customers- from the most demanding
visual-effects artists creating visually rich special effects for motion
pictures, to individual users editing home movies.


"The dynamic combination of tremendous floating point
performance, which is essential to rendering, and substantial productivity make
Angstrom's AMD Athlon MP processor-based systems the clear choice for us," said
Mark Brown, vice president of technology for Rhythm & Hues. "Simply stated,
these systems performed flawlessly."


"The quality of each and every generated pixel is
important to our rendering customers," said Lalit Jain, Chief Executive Officer
of Angstrom Microsystems. "The AMD Athlon MP processor-based Racer500 enabled
Rhythm & Hues to render Scooby-Doo in record time."


"The stability, reliability and outstanding performance
of the AMD Athlon MP processor technology can allow companies such as Rhythm &
Hues, as well as those in all other compute-intensive enterprises, to realize a
significant return on investment," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing
for AMD's Computation Products Group. "As we continue to focus on meeting the
needs of our highly innovative customers, we expect AMD's current and
eighth-generation technologies to be a powerful tool in the creation of even
more movie magic."


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!* 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 $3.9 billion in
2001. (NYSE: AMD).


About Angstrom


Angstrom Microsystems (www.angstrom.com)
is a provider of leading-edge rackmount server solutions. Angstrom's industry
proven track record of quality and cluster management software enable it to
deploy high volume of high-performance solutions worldwide. Angstrom maintains
its high level of quality through industry leading cooling solutions designed
for flawless 24x7 operations. Founded in 2000 by MIT graduates, Angstrom is
based in Boston, Massachusetts.


The Angstrom Racer500 is a high performance 1U and 2U
rackmount product line built for computationally-intensive rendering
applications such as Maya and Renderman.


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