Videos stored locally can be played back with an internal multimedia player. The built-in Web browser is also capable of doing mundane Web tasks such as interacting with friends on social networks, or playing back video from YouTube. An internal search engine allows users to search for multimedia files stored locally.

The browser is intended to showcase multimedia capabilities for PCs based on AMD's laptop and desktop platform, which includes processors and graphics cards, Gotcher wrote. Since it bought graphics card vendor ATI in 2007, AMD has been touting its efforts to build better graphics capabilities into its desktop and laptop chips, while criticizing Intel for providing poor integrated graphics capabilities with its processors.

AMD in January launched a new mobile platform, called Yukon, which includes chips for small and affordable laptops that provide a full PC and multimedia experience without compromising on features. It also launched the Dragon platform, which includes Phenom II processors for desktops and ATI graphics cards.

By 2011, AMD hopes to integrate graphics capabilities directly into the processor, which could help improve gaming on PCs, while reducing the need for a separate graphics card.

AMD did not immediately respond to questions on whether the browser would work with Intel chips. A public beta of the software will be released in a few weeks, Gotcher wrote.