Intel Leaves OLPC Project

Intel has announced that it leaves the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, aimed to distribute low-cost notebooks to children in developing countries.

The chip maker, said that that its decision to leave the project came because the founder of the One Laptop Per Child program Nicolas Negroponte asked it to quit selling a competing low-cost computer - the Classmate PC.

Intel joined the OLPC in July last year. The company was expected to unveil a new processor for the One Laptop Per Child’s XO notebook at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai next April.

Currently available OLPC XO computers utilize the AMD’s Geode LX-700 CPU at 433MHz.

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