Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"

THE MAN WHO wants every child in the world to have a cheap laptop with an AMD chip in it has accused microprocessor Intel of being "shameless" by attacking the One Laptop thrust.

Intel has "hurt the" One Laptop per Child initiative enormously by targeting its machine. In a CBS interview, he claimed the government of Nigeria had given him an Intel document showing the shortcomings of Negroponte's machine compared to its own Classmate device.

He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious fight between AMD and Intel, he said.

We've tracked Intel and AMD for many years now, and think it's fair to say that while many members of staff and executives we've met are thinking, feeling human beings, the corporations themselves are entirely without conscience, remorse, and completely incapable of blushing, bursting into tears, or falling in love.

The dollar is a merciless god. µ

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