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Intel Joins $100 Laptop Movement

November 27, 2006

Intel Corp. has announced that they are joining the One Laptop Per Child initiative which was founded to bring low-cost notebooks to developing countires

Boston (dBTechno) - Intel Corp. has announced that they are joining the One Laptop Per Child initiative which was founded to bring low-cost notebooks to developing countires.

The ONPC group signed on with Intel rival AMD for the chips for the notebooks making this move a very strange one to say the least.  OLPC expects to begin volume shipments of its XO laptop this coming September which will be priced very reasonable at $175.  Intel has been selling a similar laptop called the Classmate since March for $225.  A price drop could lower that to $200 by the end of the year.

The Classmate has already been sold in many countries including brazil, Nigeria, Mexico, Pakistan, etc.

Nicholas Negrponto though who is the founder of the OLPC is happy about the partnership stating that “Collaboration with Intel means that the maxiumum number of laptops will reach children.”

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