by CIO Staff

AMD’s Home-Entertainment Platform to Go Live in June

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May 31, 20061 min
Consumer Electronics

The first systems based on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Live home-entertainment platform will go on sale next month, the chip maker said Wednesday.

AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor will be featured in PCs manufactured by Acer, Dell’s Alienware, Hewlett-Packard and China’s Tsinghua Tongfang, the company said. The new PCs, which are optimized for use with streaming media, will be available beginning in June.

The chip maker is looking to grab market share from Intel, whose Core Duo processor powers many PCs, including models of Lenovo Group’s ThinkPad line and Apple Computer’s MacBooks.

The AMD Live Entertainment Suite allows a PC to distribute content to other devices via a home network, such as music to a stereo system and video to a television. Some of the applications are available for free download here.

AMD debuted the Live brand at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

-Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service

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