Linux Media Arts Announces Support For AMD's Multiprocessing Architecture

Burbank, CA -- 6/5/2001 -- Linux Media Arts, Inc. today announced active development support for the new AMD Athlon™ MP processor and the AMD-760™ MP multiprocessing chipset. Linux Media Arts is developing and preparing to market real-time video and film editing applications utilizing the AMD Athlon MP processor.

"Linux Media Arts is excited to be implementing the new AMD Athlon™ MP processor in our future product line," said Michael Collins, President, Linux Media Arts. "Linux Media Arts designs cost-effective, our state-of-the-art net workable systems for the professional film and television broadcast industry. The dual AMD processor architecture provides an effective, easy development platform, allowing us to extend to many more customers with our capabilities and pricing. We expect to be demonstrating our software and dual AMD processor systems in some of the most successful film and television studios in the world."

About the AMD Athlon™ MP Processor
The AMD Athlon™ MP processor with Smart MP technology is a seventh-generation x86 processor for high performance multiprocessing servers and workstations. AMD's innovative Smart MP technology features dual point-to-point, high-speed 266MHz system buses, which are designed to provide up to 4.2GB per second of sustainable bus bandwidth, and an optimized MOESI cache coherency protocol which manages data and memory traffic. 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, an advanced 266MHz front side bus with ECC support, a fully pipelined superscalar floating point engine, and an exclusive L2 Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy awarded AMD an ENERGY STAR® Certificate of Recognition for its energy-efficient processors, including the AMD Athlon MP processor. These processors can help manufacturers meet stringent ENERGY STAR specifications for a variety of appliances, equipment and other products. Products with the ENERGY STAR label are designed to use less energy, save money and help protect the environment. AMD Athlon MP processors are manufactured using AMD's .18 micron copper process technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany.

About Linux Media Arts
Linux Media Arts, Inc, with corporate headquarters in Reno, Nevada and sales and marketing offices in Burbank, CA is developing real-time, uncompressed 10 bit video and 24-bit audio editing systems for the professional video and film production industry. Linux Media Arts can be found on the Internet at WWW.LINUXMEDIAARTS.COM.