Intel abandons OLPC programme

CHIPZILLA has walked away from the One Laptop Per Child programme saying it had philosophical disagreements with the top brass.

According to Associated Press, Intel had started snarling at the OLPC leadership even before it joined the organisation in July.

But according to Intel the two reached a philosophical impasse. We guess that the Existential nihilism as expressed in Nietzsche's roadmap for a silicon chip found itself diametrically opposed to the more optimistic postmodernistic metanarratives described by Jean-Francois Lyotard in his wind-up laptop theory.

Sheesh these things happen all the time.

In fact, philosophical concerns had very little to do with the spat. OLPC asked Chipzilla to pull the plug on its support for non-OLPC platforms and concentrate only on its brand.

Intel is to continue developing its own flavour of cheap PC, the Classmate which will compete with OLPC in almost every way.
As far as the OLPC project is concerned, it will continue running its gear on the AMD chip. µ