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December 15, 2005
Taiwan's PC giant joins $100 pc for the poor movement
Taiwan's PC giant with sales exceeding $10 (US) billion this year will be joining with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative which aims to produce cheap Linux-based laptops for children of developing nations.
The OLPC is backed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)in the US. Major IT vendors are part of the OLPC inititative and these include AMD, Google, News Corporation, Nortel Networks and Red Hat.
Chip giant Intel remains skeptical of the OLPC movement stating even the poor want full blown PCs.
Posted by admin at December 15, 2005 06:49 AM