Taking the gloves off one day earlier than anticipated, AMD stepped into the digital home media platform ring this morning, with the revival of its AMD LIVE! brand aimed directly at Intel's Viiv.
There's a key difference between the cloudy and nebulous Intel Viiv platform, and this morning's newly announced, cloudy, and nebulous AMD LIVE! platform. While Intel foresees Viiv as becoming the center of the digital family room, AMD LIVE! branded computers (complete with exclamation point) will be multimedia servers that are designed to enhance the capabilities of established family room devices such as TVs.
