Intel Retires from the OLPC Initiative

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is losing one of the most important partners, the Intel collaboration.

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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