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AMD has stopped its work on the Personal Internet Communicator project
after nearly two years of planning and development. The PIC was
announced in late 2004 as a $250 headless computer, sporting a Geode x86
processor, 128MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive. PIC was designed for
"emerging markets" where the cost of computer hardware is seen as
prohibitively high.
In its third quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
AMD reported that "revenue from sales of PIC products has not been
material and in the third quarter of 2006, we decided to stop
manufacturing PIC products." AMD's filing indicates that the company
took a loss on unsold PIC inventory.
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after nearly two years of planning and development. The PIC was
announced in late 2004 as a $250 headless computer, sporting a Geode x86
processor, 128MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive. PIC was designed for
"emerging markets" where the cost of computer hardware is seen as
prohibitively high.
In its third quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
AMD reported that "revenue from sales of PIC products has not been
material and in the third quarter of 2006, we decided to stop
manufacturing PIC products." AMD's filing indicates that the company
took a loss on unsold PIC inventory.
The rest of the story...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061112-8201.html