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Title: Intel Quits OLPC Board Over Pressure to Kill Classmate PC Post by: Alex on January 04, 2008, 01:33:05 PM Intel Quits OLPC Board Over Pressure to Kill Classmate PC
Intel resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors after refusing a request to abandon its Classmate PC program, according to a source familiar with the situation. Intel's departure from OLPC's board means that an effort to build a version of the project's XO laptop based on an Intel processor is over, the source said.Intel's Classmate PC is a low-cost laptop designed for students in developing countries and competes against OLPC's XO laptop, which is based on a microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Intel and OLPC agreed in July to work together on the development of technology for low-cost laptops and to stop disparaging each other's laptop offerings. View: The full story @ PCWorld Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/211108755/intel-quits-olpc-board-over-pressure-to-kill-classmate-pc |