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Nicholas Negroponte Accuses Intel on "60 Minutes"

It's Nothing Personal, Nick, It's Just Business
By .NETDJ News Desk
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May 30, 2007 07:15 PM EDT
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Armed with an Intel government presentation critical of the One Laptop Per Child box, OLTC dream spinner Nicholas Negroponte accused Intel on "60 Minutes" of dumping ~$200 Classmate PC laptops on the third-world markets where he's trying to sell his $176 AMD-based widgets - currently in minimum quantities of 250,000.

Chalking it up to the Intel-AMD feud, he said Intel was hurting his "mission enormously" and called it "shameless." He needs three million pre-paid orders for Quanta to start volume production.

Intel's unabashed chairman Craig Barrett, speaking of the Intel marketing document, said, "That's just the way our business works." Intel isn't "trying to drive him out of business. We've trying to bring capability to young people." And according to Barrett, "There are lots of opportunities for us to work together."

Meanwhile, in the states, some schools have started taking laptops away from children as distractions from real education.

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.NET News 05/30/07 07:40:34 PM EDT

Armed with an Intel government presentation critical of the One Laptop Per Child box, OLTC dream spinner Nicholas Negroponte accused Intel on '60 Minutes' of dumping ~$200 Classmate PC laptops on the third-world markets where he's trying to sell his $176 AMD-based widgets - currently in minimum quantities of 250,000.