Intel's Child Laptop Drama
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Such a big fight over such little computers.
On Thursday, Intel(INTC Quote) announced it was resigning its seat on One Laptop Per Child's board of directors. Not much drama there. But the reason why it's doing so is very interesting.
One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop runs on a microprocessor made by Intel's rival Advanced Micro Devices(AMD Quote). Because of that, Intel developed a rival mini-laptop for school children called the Classmate PC.
Last year, OLPC and Intel agreed to stop bad-mouthing each other's computers and join forces to further the development of low-cost laptops. At that point, Intel got a seat on OLPC's board. Everything was good. Both sides started talking about an Intel-based version of the OLPC. And OLPC was reportedly also talking to Marvell(MRVL Quote) about an ARM processor version of the mini-laptop. ...
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