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Intel Ends Its Collaboration With Nonprofit Laptop Project
Intel Corp. says it has dropped out of a nonprofit project to sell millions of low-cost laptops in the developing world, citing disagreements with the organization's founder, Nicholas Negroponte...
"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.
"We can't accommodate that request," Mr. Mulloy said.
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Intel, Microsoft Quash One Laptop Per Child; AMD Swapped Out - WSJ [View article]
Intel Corp. says it has dropped out of a nonprofit project to sell millions of low-cost laptops in the developing world, citing disagreements with the organization's founder, Nicholas Negroponte...
"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.
"We can't accommodate that request," Mr. Mulloy said.
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