Finally a hand-shake between Intel & OLPC

Chipmaker Intel and the One Laptop per Child project have decided to stop sniping at each other and become pals. The OLPC project was launched by MIT’s tech guru Nicholas Negroponte to provide low-cost laptop to kids in third world countries. Intel, which is also trying to market its low-cost Classmate PC, had crossed swords with OLPC several times. Negroponte blew his top after Intel’s top honcho recently termed the OLPC machine a ‘mere gadget’. There were speculations that Intel was deriding the project since the low-cost laptop was using chips made by rival AMD. However, the firm seems to have had second thoughts and has now climbed on board the OLPC project along with other big corporate sponsors such as Google. An Intel representative will also be inducted in the OLPC board. We don’t yet know if its chips would be inducted in the machine.