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We said it before and we'll say it again: PC manufacturers have a vested interest in keeping AMD around -- even when the chipmaker stumbles through a year of gloomy financial earnings and strategic missteps.
On Thursday, HP demonstrated this devotion by announcing it will begin selling a consumer desktop, the Pavilion Media Center m8330f, featuring AMD's new quad-core Phenom processor. Considering we're talking about HP, this will undoubtedly help the chipmaker recoup some of the losses it's going to face from the delayed quad-core Opteron processors for servers. To date, the world's number one PC vendor is the only top-tier company committed to using AMD's commercial quad-core chips. Expect that to change, however, as soon as next week.
The Phenom-equipped Media Center desktop is actually one of several new PCs that HP plans on showcasing at next week's CES, but a brief survey of the interwebs reveals it's actually already available for purchase through Wal-Mart.
