Intel has pulled out of the One Laptop Per Child initiative to sell millions of low-cost laptops to developing nations. The chip giant cited disagreements with OLPC’s founder, former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, according to a report published in the Wall Street Journal.

Reportedly, Intel and the OLPC have been bickering by Intel’s initiatives to sell its own low-cost laptop, the Classmate, in many of the same countries OLPC has targeted.

AMD provides the chips for the OLPC machines, but Intel

arised to be getting a piece of the action through an OLPC-designed laptop the Journal reported was to be announced at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Instead, according to the Journal, Intel’s representative quit the OLPC board and the hardware has been nixed.

OLPC’s Ambitions

Negroponte launched the OLPC nonprofit in 2005 to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops to every child in the world. The Linux-powered XO […]

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