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AMD Cuts Personal Internet Communicator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-way-for-the-new-thing dept.

DaGiants writes "AMD has killed the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), one of the first major efforts at designing ultra low-cost PCs for the third world. Ars Technica reports that AMD decided to pull the plug, taking a loss on the project. AMD can't be too disappointed though, as the OLPC uses AMD's Geode x86 processor, and delivers a lot more for much less. While OLPC gets most of the attention these days, AMD's role in spurring interest in low-cost PCs for developing nations can't be overlooked."

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  1. Hector Ruiz Walks Into A Crowded Board Meeting by slughead · · Score: 0, Troll

    WHEN WAS SOMEONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE 3RD WORLD DOESN'T HAVE ANY MONEY?!

    This is worse than that time we flew to Canada and bought ATI so I'd have an excuse to redeem my frequent flier miles.

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  2. "Wazzat?" by kabdib · · Score: 0, Troll

    "What's that?" I asked the computer store owner. It was a green box in a bin by the door.

    "Dunno. It's yours if you want it."

    It had USB connectors, and video out, and a modem jack. Why not? I took it home. Yup, it's one of these OLPC things.

    WinCE something-or-other, 20G hard disk, nobody seemed to care...

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  3. Re:Not Linux friendly by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 1, Troll

    If its fuctory BIOS is replaced with LinuxBIOS http://www.linuxbios.org/ then it is able to boot into Linux.

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