Intel Ends Its Collaboration With Nonprofit Laptop Project
MITメディアラボのNicholas Negroponte所長と意見が対立し，米Intelが低価格ラップトップPCプロジェクト「One Laptop Per Child（OLPC)」から離脱。OLPCは開発途上国の子供向けに100ドルでラップトップPC「XO」を供給するというもの。現在AMDを搭載しているが，これに対しIntelが巻き返しを図るも挫折してしまったといった話。
After more than a year of public sniping between Intel and OLPC, an Intel representative joined OLPC's board in July, and the company had been planning to announce a new, low-cost,
OLPC-designed laptop based on an Intel microprocessor at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But the Intel representative has quit the OLPC board and the new machine has been scrapped, according to Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy."We've reached a philosophical impasse with OLPC," Mr. Mulloy said. He added that Mr. Negroponte had demanded that Intel stop selling its own-designed laptop, known as the Classmate, in developing countries and stop supplying its chips to other laptops marketed to schoolchildren in those countries.
