Posted on Thursday, November 16 2006 @ 23:16 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD
created a new living room PC prototype that is designed to store videos, music, TV shows and pictures.
"There will be PCs in the living room. They won't look like PCs," Joe Menard, corporate vice president of consumer business at AMD, said during an interview at the Samsung Executive Summit this week in San Jose. Some of these types of PCs may come out next year, he added.
Companies that have tried to get PCs into the living room include Gateway and Compaq, which tried to sell large-projection TVs linked to PCs in the late 1990s. But high prices led to low sales.
