On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:55:28 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <2371232.Z7AS9cq3JP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Low-Tech OLPC Laptop Still a Marvel
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>>| By picking small-fry chip fabricators instead of Intel for the 500
>>| megahertz central microprocessor, the OLPC project has shunned the
>>| American industrial establishment, as it has since the project was
>>| introduced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Summit in
>>| Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2005.
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> So...already over the price goal, they go with the small fabricators who
> have no chance at all of matching the price Intel could make the chips for?
I wonder who those fabricators are? It would make sense to get the OLPC's
made by developing nations. That would help their economies while their
products helped other developing nations.
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