Intel Resigns From OLPC Board?
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OLPC is much more than hardware; Intel is not.
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Subject: Re: Intel Resigns From OLPC Board?
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> On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The wall street journal is reporting that Intel has resigned from the
>> OLPC
>> board and has canceled plans to develop an Intel based OLPC computer
>> over
>> demands that it stop selling its competitor classmate computer. Can
>> anyone
>> confirm this?
>>
>> Ron Teitelbaum
>> Squeak News Team Leader
>
>
> Intel Resigns From Board
> Of One Laptop Per Child
> By STEVE STECKLOW
> January 3, 2008 8:17 p.m.
> Intel Corp. says it has dropped out of a non-profit project to sell
> millions of low-cost laptops in the developing world, citing
> disagreements with the organization's founder, Nicholas Negroponte.
>
> The divorce culminates a stormy relationship between the Santa Clara,
> Calif.-based chipmaker and the One Laptop Per Child project, which
> recently began selling a low-cost laptop in African, Latin American and
> other countries. The two sides had been feuding over Intel's aggressive
> marketing of a low-cost laptop of its own design in many of the same
> countries that the non-profit had been targeting. The OLPC machine uses a
> microprocessor from Intel's chief competitor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
>
> After more than a year of public sniping between Intel and OLPC, Intel
> joined OLPC's board in July and had been planning on announcing a new
> low-cost, OLPC-designed laptop based on an Intel microprocessor at next
> week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But the company has quit
> the board and scrapped the new machine, according to Intel spokesman
> Chuck Mulloy.
>
> "We've reached a philosophical impasse with OLPC," he said. He added that
> Mr. Negroponte had demanded that Intel stop selling its own designed
> laptop, known as the Classmate, and to stop supplying its chips in other
> laptops marketed to schoolchildren in developing countries. "We can't
> accommodate that request," Mr. Mulloy said. He said Intel favors offering
> "many solutions" to developing countries, not just the OLPC laptop. He
> also said dropping the Classmate would hurt Intel's relationships with
> overseas manufacturers and suppliers. Tens of thousands of Classmates
> have been sold.
>
> Mr. Negroponte, a professor on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology, couldn't be reached for comment. The simmering dispute
> between Intel and Mr. Negroponte was detailed in a page-one story in this
> newspaper in November.
>
> The concept of a low-cost laptop for the world's poorest schoolchildren
> has sparked great interest from world leaders and technology companies
> ever since Mr. Negroponte first proposed it three years ago as a way to
> bridge the technology divide between rich and poor countries. He vowed to
> get such a device, costing just $100, into the hands of up to 150 million
> children by this year. But although OLPC has managed to develop an
> innovative machine, it has failed so far to achieve its target price --
> the current model sells overseas for $188 -- and to attract large orders
> from governments because of increasing competition. As sales problems
> mounted, the project recently reversed course on its plan not to sell the
> device to American consumers. In November, it began selling pairs of
> laptops to U.S. and Canadian consumers for $399 under a program in which
> buyers could keep one and give the other to a student in a poor country
> like Haiti. The program ended on Monday. OLPC has called the program --
> known as "Give One. Get One." -- successful, but hasn't disclosed total
> sales figures.
>
> Mr. Negroponte serves on a committee to protect the editorial integrity
> of Dow Jones & Co., the owner of The Wall Street Journal that was
> acquired last month by News Corp.
>
> Write to Steve Stecklow at steve.stecklow at wsj.com
>
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