We already knew that Intel and OLPC had
officially shook hands and agreed to work with one another in some elusive fashion, and now things are becoming a touch clearer. Reportedly, the chip maker will be designing a "new architecture specifically for the ultra-low cost laptop category," and if all goes as planned, it'll unveil the OLPC-ready CPU at next year's Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. Apparently, Intel even looked into modifying current
mobile chips rather than starting from scratch, but according to Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of the mobile platforms group at Intel, the "small size, low cost and low power consumption required by the OLPC laptop made it unique enough to require a new architecture." The new microprocessors should be uncovered on April 2-3, 2008.
posted Oct 15th 2007 8:58AM
noooooooooooooooooooooo... not another lazy photoshop job with a heart pasted between two company logos.
how original
Would you rather they spent their newsgathering time mocking up brilliant photoshops of products which don't yet exist?
am i the only one that wishes some of this tech would drift down to mum & dad buying from bigbox retailer?
I would love to buy a no-nonsense ultra low power laptop (which is more durable, too) with awesome battery life. I wouldn't care about top performance for the basics I do - battery life would be far more important.