All this trashing of Intel over pulling out of OLPC is both ironic and silly. The OLPC owes its existence to Moore's law, and the tremendous rate of price-performance improvement provided by competitive capitalism. The idea that a non-profit, by not taking a few points off the top to pay shareholders, is going to have an impact in a world where capability per dollar doubles every year or two is laughable. Negroponte made a cool device, but it was built from the ecosystem created by Intel and companies like them. He's like a rooster claiming credit for the dawn; the only thing "visionary" is that he saw where Moore's law was going, and proposed the $100 device a couple years before the market will offer it as a routine matter. Negroponte isn't making it happen any faster, and Intel's pulling out to promote a different idea won't slow it down. The Intel vs. OLPC controversy is a tempest in a teacup; the exponential growth in price-performance is the real story, and it's bigger than both of them.

Is the Asus EEE laptop using Intel cpu meant for OLPC?

I have Asus EEE laptop, 900Mhz CPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB hard drive, 7 inch colour screen. It doesn't have solar power charger though ;-)

Couldn't Intel use this CPU as the basis for the OLPC, and maybe even the ASUS mainboard and just reduce the other hardware reqs to get the price down?

Maybe Asus are paying more for the 900MHz cpu then Negroponte wanted to so Intel are going with Asus instead?

That's why I don't buy Intel. I was looking at a review of Wolfdale yesterday and thinking...yea they did a good job, low power consumption and all that. Still, Intel is a friend of Microsoft and togheter they are the nastiest companies possible(well, maybe texaco is worst). It is interesting to see how their business tactics are similar, like it's only one company. Remember how M$ tried to screw Mandriva? For this move Intel, you sealed your image.