One Laptop Per Child Looses Intel
Posted by samc on January 4th, 2008Intel is pulling out of the One Laptop Per Child program, which it joined in July, reports the NY Times.
The XO PC is based on the freely available Linux operating system and uses an Advanced Micro Devices processor. It is being sold for about $200 apiece to governments and institutions, but both Intel and Microsoft have developed competing systems that OLPC saw as a threat to their vision.
Intel claims that Negroponte asked the chipmaker to stop selling its Classmate PC. The Classmate PC was one of the sources of friction between Negroponte and Intel before they joined forces in July, reports C/Net. Negroponte went on 60 Minutes in May and accused Intel of dumping Classmate PCs below cost in order to keep OLPCs out of the hands of needy children.
Intel and OLPC were working on an Intel-based version of the XO laptop, according to Agnes Kwan, an Intel spokeswoman, but the OLPC insisted that Intel end its production of the Classmate PC. Even more surprising, Intel is saying that the OLPC actually asked the chipmaker to stop working with any company that produces low-cost laptops, such as the $300 Asus’ Eee PC (above) which has become a run away best seller. The new Eee is said to use Intel’s Menlow platform which sports a Silverthorne 45nm processor and Wimax.
source : dailywireless.org
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