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AMD Moves Closer To Linux PDA

Posted by simoniker on from the portable-penguin-power dept.

Ryan writes "Mobilemag is reporting that AMD has advanced the prototype design of their current Linux-based PDA handheld, adding full-screen video capabilities, and completing work on the device's battery charger. The device is based on AMD's 400MHz Alchemy 1100 processor." However, "AMD has yet to find a hardware maker that has committed to bringing the Alchemy-based reference design to market as a commercial product."

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  1. SLASHDOT MYTHS VS. REALITY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."

    Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

    MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

    REALITY:

    MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."

    Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

    MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

    "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

  2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was going to say "BUT DOES IT RUN LINUX?" but then I RTFA. Damnit... foiled again.

  3. WARNING! PARENT IS A TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The grandparent is posting on Slashdot, and therefore, obviously doesn't have a Johnson.

    1. Re:WARNING! PARENT IS A TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Oh, so the one in his mouth doesn't count then?

    2. Re:WARNING! PARENT IS A TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Right. The one in his mouth and the one up his ass don't count.

  4. Re:Quick poll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    please just fuck fucking off

  5. You kick puppies for fun, don't you? by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's wrong with a little pussy?

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff