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Wanna Bet AMD Can Kiss That One Good-Bye?

Intel and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) altruist Nicholas Negroponte are supposed to stop pissing on each other's shoes
By Virtualization News
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July 22, 2007 10:15 PM EDT
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Well, it seems that Intel and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) altruist Nicholas Negroponte are supposed to stop pissing on each other's shoes and work together for the good of humanity "through the synergy of their respective programs." This after Negroponte on television accused Intel of cutting the ground out from under his Linux-based XO widget and making end runs around the AMD-based XO to peddle its own, more conventional Windows-based Classmate PCs to third-world governments. Now Intel is going to join the OLPC board, which, according to Negroponte, is supposed to mean that "the maximum number of laptops will reach children."

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