Jan 052008

Intel Retires from the OLPC Initiative

Posted by: Sierra in News

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is losing one of the most important partners, the Intel collaboration.
Intel Retires from the OLPC Initiative
The project meant to offer one $100 laptop for each school child in development countries lost Intel because, as an Intel’s representative declared, "OLPC had asked Intel to end our support for non-OLPC platforms, including the Classmate PC, and to focus on the OLPC platform exclusively," a request impossible to satisfy by the company.

According to OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, Intel was advertising the Classmate in prejudice of the XO laptop.

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