AMD has stopped the production of its PIC or Personal Internet Communicator. With this the PIC also joins the list of number of failed cheap PC products.
One of the major contributors shelving of PIC was the launch of OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program in which one product costing only $140 has been launched.
The AMD had announced PIC in the year 2004 with Geode x86 processor, 128 MB RAM and 10 GB hard disk but it met a lukewarm success in Brazil, Mexico and China but failed to make much head way.
The executives at AMD are not mad and scratching their heads as the latest $140 PC is using the 400 MHz Geode processor with 128 MB of DRAM and a 512 Mb flash memory and is Linux based.
In its third quarter filing with Securities and Exchange Commission the company said that it was incurring losses in it PIC project and has decided to stop its production.
No doubt that the AMD lost the battle to provide cheap PC but it should be given the credit of trying to do something new for the emerging markets.
Via: Arstechnica
