AMD announced in its third quarter SEC filing that it has ceased the manufacture of their
Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) product for emerging markets due to lack of material revenue. Really now, with all the hype surrounding Negroponte's
CM1 2B1 XO Children's Machine and the fact that the XO costs a full Benjamin less at
$100 about $140, is anyone surprised? Still, AMD isn't completely out of the game: the XO runs an AMD Geode processor. Just last week, the first 10 prototype units were "hand-built" for the purposes of evaluating the XO's custom components, systems-integration testing, and to ensure that the production process holds up. Another 900 units are then set to rollout from Quanta this week for "destructive testing" and distribution to development partners like
Brazil who have already earmarked 50 units. With potential for sales (at razor-thin margins) in the
tens of millions, well, you might still get a decent cut of the revenue pie anyway AMD, unless of course countries use that money for clean water and uh, schools.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
strider_mt2k @ Nov 13th 2006 9:20AM
This POS interested me so much that I had to learn every thing I could about it.
The size, the potential...
Now that I've learned everything about it that I can I am no longer interested in any way.
It's a slow slow slow machine made slower by Windows CE.
That's right, CE.
Ayle @ Nov 13th 2006 3:54PM
Remember that this thing has been develloped for the people in develloping country who cant afford a real computer, to introduce them to computers so STFU....
shitcrumbletalk @ Nov 14th 2006 10:16AM
developing countries have much much bigger issues at hand than computerisation. getting everyone yet another throwaway piece of toxic plastic will accomplish exactly what? make starving more fun? create new super cheap offshoring destinations? better give them lots of books, those last longer, will teach them actual useful stuff and possibly will keep them from getting fat, stupid, lazy and entertainment addicted like in the allmighty developed west. venezuela guaranteeing a free musical education for every child is a very good example for the rest of the world of how things should actually be done.