AMD Personal Internet Communicator

Currently, only 16% of the world’s population have access to the most basic computing technologies. AMD’s Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) was designed specifically to provide basic computing functionality, including Internet access, at affordable prices. AMD’s 50×15 initiative is an effort to develop new technology and solutions that will help enable affordable Internet access and computing capability for 50 percent of the world’s population by the year 2015.

Designer: M3 Design
Manufacturer: Solectron and FIC
United States, Mexico, and Brazil, 2004
Cast aluminum base, molded PC/ABS plastic two-piece external shell finished, TPE trim band, rubber feet; 10GB 3.5” internal hard disk running on an AMD Geode™ GX processor, screws
Dimensions: 2.5” h x 5.5” w x 8.5“d
In use in: Brazil, British Virgin Islands, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, United States

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