[Olpc-za] Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Personally I think Intel didn't win anything by coming on the OLPC board 
in the first place and to them it probably simply doesn't matter whether 
they officially support the OLPC effort or not.

If the rumours are to believed the OLPC XO-2 will come with an Intel 
chipset / processor (and I due believe that because frankly speaking 
AMD's roadmap in the ultra-low-power-consumption range doesn't look that 
good and I don't believe that OLPC will go with a completely different, 
non x86 solution at this point) and so Intel will be making money either 
way.

Just my 2 euro-cents,
Christoph Derndorfer
(OLPC Austria)

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) schrieb:
> *sigh*
>
> I wish people would learn to make friends and not enemies. Exclusivity 
> clauses are so 80's.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> Morgan Collett wrote:
>   
>> I wonder if the Brazil contract had anything to do with it:
>>
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/brazil/david_cavallo_olpc_brazil.html says:
>>
>>     
>>> The model offered by Positivo is still unknown but Intel has
>>> already congratulated them for winning, which led all to believe
>>> that it's a newer version of the Classmate PC with built-in
>>> camera and mesh networking.
>>>       
>> Brazil buying classmates instead of XOs, when the tender had a lot of
>> XO-specific requirements like the mesh networking, might have soured
>> the relationship...
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