AMD Opteron CPU's Used For The 78th Annual Academy Awards

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AMD OPTERON PROCESSORS USED TO CAPTURE LIVE AUDIO FOR THE 78TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS

LOS ANGELES—MARCH 6, 2006—At last night’s 78th Annual
Academy Awards®, orchestral performances were recorded live using a dualcore
AMD Opteron™ processor-based digital audio workstation from ADK
running Steinberg’s Nuendo media production software on top of Microsoft
Windows XP Pro operating system. Remote Recording of New York City has
recorded and archived live orchestral performances at the Academy Awards
for the past 15 years. This year marks the first time a computer of any kind
was relied upon instead of tape for this purpose.
“Recording over 100 signal inputs of live audio for an event with the
magnitude of the Academy Awards, system reliability is the utmost concern,”
said David Hewitt, president of Remote Recording. “We have complete faith
in our rock-solid AMD64-based workstation running Nuendo and Windows XP
Pro. It’s the only digital platform we’d consider for this environment.”
“AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture continues to take PC technology
into mission-critical media production environments where stability is a door-
die proposition,” said Charlie Boswell, director of Digital Media and
Entertainment for AMD. “Going ‘LIVE!’ with confidence on AMD64 as proven
by Remote Recording at the Academy Awards demonstrates the competitive
strength of our architecture for digital media because the end user can
concentrate on the content without worrying about the technology.”
About AMD64
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computing. AMD64’s Direct Connect Architecture evolves industry standards
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to deliver break-through performance on single- and dual-core processors,
reducing bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures.
AMD64 technology is also designed to enhance the security of computing
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by advanced anti-virus features in current versions of Linux®, Microsoft®
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companies or their subsidiaries are using AMD64 technology. Since their
2003 introduction, AMD64 processors have earned more than 160 industry
awards and the support of more than 2,000 OEMs, hardware and software
developers, system builders and distributors. For more information on the
AMD64 processor platform, see http://www.amd.com/amd64.
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versions of Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, Solaris and BSD Unix. After properly installing the appropriate
operating system release, users must enable the protection of their applications and associated files from
buffer overrun attacks. Consult OS documentation for information on enabling EVP. Contact software
application vendors for information regarding use of the application in conjunction with EVP. AMD strongly
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