Press Release – Echo Announces New FireWire Product Line – Support for AMD64 Platform

January 15, 2004

Echo Digital Audio Announces New FireWire Product Line & FireWorks Technology

Echo Digital Audio Corporation (Carpinteria, CA), a leading developer and manufacturer of professional audio recording products, today announced their new FireWire based product line of professional audio hardware. This new product line offers the same high quality hardware and software as the critically acclaimed Echo24 line, and will use Echo’s new FireWorks technology.

FireWorks combines FireWire and DSP technology into small, low-cost modules. These modules utilize an integrated Texas Instruments FireWire solution coupled with powerful DSPs from both Texas Instruments and Analog Devices. The FireWorks architecture will be available to OEMs as a reference design as well as the foundation for Echo’s new family of professional audio products.

Echo Digital Audio Announces Support for AMD64 Platform

Echo Digital Audio Corporation announced full Windows support for AMD64 processors starting with their new FireWire line of products. “With the AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, AMD has given our customers an extreme amount of processing power for their onboard effects and signal processing,” said Echo’s chief technology officer,
Milo Street.

“Echo’s support of AMD Athlon 64 processors provides customers amazing audio application technology for the desktop and mobile markets,” said John Morris, manager, desktop marketing, AMD’s Microprocessor Business Unit. “We are pleased to see such a strong commitment from Echo to bring 64-bit support to our shared customers."

Echo's hardware has long been recognized both for audio quality, driver reliability, and innovative features. That same quality and reliability will soon be available for AMD64 technology users.

For more information please visit Echo's web site: www.echoaudio.com.

About Echo

Echo Digital Audio Corporation has been in business in the Santa Barbara, California area for over 20 years. During the 1980's the company was a pioneer in computer voice technology. Over the past 10 years Echo has developed several audio chips and products for leading semiconductor and multimedia companies (Sony, Motorola, Rockwell, Agilent, Analog Devices, Peavey, VLSI) as well as becoming a leader in designing and manufacturing products for the professional audio and home entertainment markets.