AMD-PIC 50X15

by 8o8o on 2006-09-10 22:40:44

Here's the translation:

The title can be explained as follows: AMD - no introduction needed; PIC - Personal Internet Communicator (is it a personal internet communicator?); 50X15, AMD's ambitious goal is to rely on the PIC to connect 50% of the world's population to the Internet by 2015 (sincerely hoping AMD won't be crushed by Intel before 2015).

The picture on the left is the PIC (its design is pretty good, quite interesting, there's a larger image inside). The PIC uses AMD's low-power Geode x86 processor - GX [email protected] (actual frequency 366MHz); 128MB DDR memory; 10GB 3.5" hard drive; the pre-installed operating system is an optimized version of Windows CE for PIC (is this AMD's PPC?); because it uses a low-power chip, the entire machine has no cooling fan (silent? Yes, who has ever seen a fan installed on a PPC).

In terms of software, the PIC comes with the built-in WinCE operating system, browser, email client, word processing and spreadsheet software, image viewing software, multimedia player. It also supports file formats such as PDF and PPT (it's still a PPC after all).

As the core of AMD's computer and internet popularization plan (50X15), the PIC is designed and priced to meet the demand for computers and the Internet in developing countries. The configuration mentioned above was from the time (October 2004, sorry for the 8" O" screen everyone, digging this up...