AMD’s PIC bites the dust
p2pnet.net News:- AMD says it’s going to drop its $185 Personal Internet Communicator (PIC).
Essentially a PC without a monitor, it represented the company’s effort, “to bring Internet access to 50 percent of the world’s population by 2015,” says ABC News.
The PIC was bundled with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, email, media player, and instant-messaging software and, “AMD claimed it could withstand extreme conditions like temperature and dust,” says TechTree India, adding:
“Commenting on the PIC and its failure to see the light of day, Eric DeRitis, Global Communications Director of AMD, said that when they were launching the PIC, their intention was not to be the manufacturer. DeRitis said they had developed a reference unit, but since no one else was producing that kind of device, they had ultimately donned the manufacturers hat.”
Also See:
ABC News – AMD Ditches The PIC, November 13, 2006
TechTree India – Another Low Cost PC Project Nixed, November 10, 2006
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