AMD PLATFORMS CERTIFIED FOR PINNACLE SYSTEMS' STATE-OF-THE-ART VIDEO
EDITING
SOLUTIONS

- Recognition from industry leader Pinnacle Systems
expands AMD's presence
in the digital video market -


SUNNYVALE,
CA-SEPTEMBER 18, 2001-AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that
Pinnacle Systems
Inc., winner of seven Emmy Awards in the field of digital
video production,
has certified AMD Athlon(tm) and AMD Athlon MP
processor-based platforms for
Pinnacle's top-of-the-line digital video PCI
hardware editing
cards.

The AMD Athlon processor has been certified for the Pinnacle DV500
PLUS
real-time DV editing solution and the Pinnacle Pro-ONE professional
video
editing/authoring system. The AMD Athlon MP processor featuring Smart
MP
technology has been certified on multiprocessor systems for TARGA
3000,
Pinnacle's content creation and streaming platform. In addition,
Pinnacle
Systems declared that AMD Athlon and AMD Athlon MP processor-based
platforms
meet its high standards for certification on its state-of-the-art
Non-Linear
Editing (NLE) video solutions.

"Real-time video editing is
a very computation intensive task that stresses
all aspects of a computer
system," explained Bill Loesch, vice president of
Product Management  and
Engineering of Pinnacle Systems' Personal Web Video
Division. "The AMD Athlon
and AMD Athlon MP processors provide the extra
performance and stable working
environment that will scale to meet our
customers' needs."

"We are
extremely happy to be part of the certification program at Pinnacle
Systems
and look forward to working with the renowned digital video company
to enable
the certification of future solutions," said Richard Heye, vice
president of
Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD's Computation
Products Group.
"AMD Athlon and AMD Athlon MP processors deliver outstanding
performance.
Video professionals know that system performance, and not
simply processor
frequency, is all important for the best experience on
real-time video
production work."

Based on the state-of-the-art AMD Athlon MP processor
and the AMD-760(tm) MP
chipset, AMD's multiprocessing platform supports
Double Data Rate (DDR)
memory technology and incorporates AMD's latest
innovation, Smart MP
technology. AMD's Smart MP technology enables the
combined power of the
processor and chipset to deliver better overall
performance on widely
available, x86-based, dual-processor
platforms.

About the AMD Athlon(tm) Processor

The AMD Athlon
processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design
featuring a
superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar 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 two (L2) cache
and 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache); enhanced
3DNow!(tm) technology
with 24 additional instructions designed to improve
integer math
calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP
communications.
The AMD Athlon processor features either a 266MHz Front Side
Bus (FSB) 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 technology in
Fab 30 in Dresden,
Germany.

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. It provides
up to a 38
percent increase over widely available x86 multiprocessor-based
systems on
benchmarks such as WebBench, ServerBench and 3D Studio Max.

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, with stable Socket A
infrastructure and support
for DDR memory technology, has 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). It also
incorporates 3DNow!* Professional technology, which has 52 new
instructions
that extend AMD's 3DNow!(tm) technology, enabling smoother,
richer and more
lifelike images, more precise digital audio and an enriched
Internet
experience.

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, streaming 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 href="http://www.pinnaclesys.com">www.pinnaclesys.com.

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