KitGuru confirmed that the powerful tiny system, as shown at AMD's own event, was based upon an Asrock Z97E-ITX/ac motherboard with an Intel Core i7-4790K 'Devil's Canyon' processor.

Now AMD has made a statement to explain why it chose to employ a CPU from one of its competitor in what is a flagship pioneering gaming PC.

It told Tom's Hardware that users wanted the Devil's Canyon chip in the Project Quantum machine.

Customers "want to pick and choose the balance of components that they want," and the machine shown off at the E3  was considered to be the height of tech sexiness right now.

AMD said Quantum PCs will feature both AMD and Intel CPUs to address the entire market, but did you see that nice Radeon Fury... think about that right now.

It is going to be ages before we see the first Project Quantum PCs will be released and the CPU options might change. We would have thought that AMD might want to put its FinFET process ZEN CPUs in Project Quantum with up to 16 cores and 32 threads. We will not see that until next year.