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Over the summer, I blogged about Intel supporting the One Laptop Per Child Program and today I learn that they have stopped supporting the program. Doesn't make sense to me why you would agree and then less than six months later you pull out all together. The mission of this non-profit association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. The goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, ...

Intel Corporation has agreed to donate their cpu chip to the One Laptop per Child Program. The program has been around for four decades and has tried to get corporations to donate to their cause. Intel has been criticized in the past for not getting involved with this venture. There are now 11 companies involved with the project including Red Hat and Google. The mission of this non-profit association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate ...

This is interesting. First AMD buys ATI for over $ 5 Billion Soon followed by Intel pulls ATI chipset license Very stiff competition eh? Still considering ATI by itself, it has a long way to got regain the crown of graphics cards. Right now NVidia kicks ass. Which also should be soon followed by the comment that right now Intel kiss ass as well. Technorati : amd, ati, chipset, graphics, intel Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ...