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600 Hardware and Software Products Optimized for AMD

600 Hardware and Software Products Optimized for AMD hit the hardware desk today, aimed at PC users who still think specs, slots, drivers and bundled software are half.

600 Hardware and Software Products Optimized for AMD hit the hardware desk today, aimed at PC users who still think specs, slots, drivers and bundled software are half the fun.

The useful part: technology. The industry’s top hardware and software developers continue to announce new entertainment and business productivity titles, graphics drivers, audio cards, DVD applications, utilities, 3D engines and development tools optimized for use on AMD-powered platforms. Since the inception of 3DNow! technology in May 1998, many of the foremost entertainment software publishers and business productivity software companies have announced support for the SIMD technology targeted at accelerating the floating point calculations that enable an enhanced multimedia PC experience. File it under the usual 1999 PC pile: interesting, crowded, and probably fighting five other releases for attention.