Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest maker of microprocessors for personal computers, announced its Athlon 64 chip had been adopted by HP for a personal computer fuelled by Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The achievement marks another breakthrough for AMD, whose chips had never before been adopted by Media Center computers.
"AMD64 technology enables extraordinary multimedia performance that brings the same blazing speed of 64-bit computing used by the top movie, music and gaming industry artists and producers to consumers in the home," said said Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and general manager, Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD. HP's Media Center PC m1160n Photosmart PC is based on the AMD Athlon 64 3400+ microprocessor, features up to 2GB of memory, up to 400GB HDD, graphics card, audio card, TV-tuner add-in card and a number of other advantages.
News source: X-bit labs
