| Intel out of One Laptop Per Child scheme |
Jan. 04, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters)—Intel Corp said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child project and resign from the board after the project's board demanded the chipmaker stop supporting other efforts in emerging markets.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit project run by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, aimed to sell $100 laptops to the world's poor children.
But it began selling in October for $200 through a donor program to finance the program's launch.
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