Intel pulls out of $100 laptop venture
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, split from a foundation working to provide $100 laptops to the developing world, ending a six-month truce with the non-profit group’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte.
By Bloomberg |
SAN FRANCISCO: Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, split from a foundation working to provide $100 laptops to the developing world, ending a six-month truce with the non-profit group’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte.
The company reached a ‘philosophical impasse’ with the One Laptop per Child foundation and Negroponte after he asked the company to exclusively support the group’s XO laptop, Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said on Thursday. Intel joined the board of One Laptop per Child in July, teaming up with a former critic.
Negroponte had accused the company of trying to put his project out of business by developing a similar laptop called the Classmate PC. With Intel on its board, the foundation expected the company to abandon support for the Classmate and other rival products, Mulloy said. “It’s unusual anyone does an alliance with a company the size of Intel and then gives that company an offer they can’t accept,” said Rob Enderle, president of Enderle Group. —
The company reached a ‘philosophical impasse’ with the One Laptop per Child foundation and Negroponte after he asked the company to exclusively support the group’s XO laptop, Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said on Thursday. Intel joined the board of One Laptop per Child in July, teaming up with a former critic.
Negroponte had accused the company of trying to put his project out of business by developing a similar laptop called the Classmate PC. With Intel on its board, the foundation expected the company to abandon support for the Classmate and other rival products, Mulloy said. “It’s unusual anyone does an alliance with a company the size of Intel and then gives that company an offer they can’t accept,” said Rob Enderle, president of Enderle Group. —
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