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Yeah, too bad it's not true. :') It's usually used to synch Tut's widow with Suppiluliuma, but it appears to be an imaginary match. from one of Bob Brier 's books:

The queen of Egypt who wrote the letter is called Dahamunzu, and her husband ("their lord") is called Nibhuruiya. Who were these royals? Their names are transliterations of Egyptian names into the Hittite language... There can be little doubt that the king was Tutankhamen, whose prenomen... is Neb-kheperu-re... Dahamunzu... was probably... the Egyptian phrase Ta Hemet Nesewt -- "The King's Wife"... (p 176)

The source of this info was Mursilis II who was summarizing documents from his father's time. Neb-kheperu-re was part of Tutankhamen's name, but since the titles of his immediate predecessor were previously borne by Akhenaten (analogous perhaps to the later Roman uses of the term "Caesar" and "Augustus" by Diocletian etc) it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Akhenaten previously bore the same title, and that it may not have begun or ended there.

Ancient Egyptian tomb rediscovered via papyrus road map
A German working on the west bank of the Nile near present-day Luxor found the tomb of Nubkeperre Inyotef, who is believed to have started the war of Liberation against Hyksos invaders around 3,500 years ago, they said.

There's the name, centuries earlier, attached to an obscure pharaoh (or pretender). Interestingly enough:

Saul, David and Solomon and the Amarna period
by E.J. de Meester
This story was found on a clay tablet in Turkey. In this, Tutankhamen is called Pip-khurru-riya.

So much for the phonetic identification of Tutankhamen. It appears that the inscription left by the "Hittites" says no such thing.