____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 06 January 2008 11:37 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the
>>| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the
>>| OLPC board.
>>|
>>| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting
>>| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world
>>| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a
>>| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the
>>| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match
>>| the price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC
>>| project. Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had
>>| to unveil an Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price
>>| and power consumption compared to the AMD powered one.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/
>
> So *that's* the reason why the abandoned the project. That makes much
> more sense. Personally, I'd assumed that they were trying to kill the
> project, but I couldn't work out exactly why. Now I know.
>
>>
>> Windows and Intel are both resource pigs.
>>
>> "This in itself might slow down replacement cycles and life time
>> shortening until we find true MIPS eating applications - a priority not
>> only Intel should subscribe to."
>>
>> --Joachim Kempin, senior vice president for OEM sales, Microsoft
>>
>
> I'd always known that they did this, but I'd never seen it documented
> before. This very much shows why the likes of DFS, Weisgerber and co
> take the position they do - it's come from the top, and they do what
> they're told.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I wonder it this was a deliberate choice of words. John Bailo used to speak
about Joachim Kempin's German accent before he left Microsoft and before
Joachim Kempin got arrested for illegally killing 4 antelopes with a big gun.
It take a lot of nerve to be treating a computer industry so heartlessly and
Joachim Kempin's pasttime activity says a lot. It figures. Add this to some of
Joachim Kempin's greatest hits quotes like "knife the baby".
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