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Jan 04 2008 12:00am EDT

OLPC vs. Intel: Round 3!

What the heck is really going on between Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child and Intel? They were enemies, then they made up, and as of today they're enemies again.

The Wall Street Journal this morning reported that Intel said this: "We've reached a philosophical impasse with OLPC," Mr Mulloy said. He added that Mr. Negroponte had demanded that Intel stop selling its own-designed laptop, known as the Classmate, in developing countries and stop supplying its chips to other laptops marketed to schoolchildren in those countries.

So I emailed Negroponte, who responded: "Not something we ever would or did demand. They are incredible."

So I asked Intel about that, and spokesman Chuck Mulloy told me that Intel stands by its statements -- that Negroponte told Intel to stop making the Classmate.

Hmm.

Well, anyway, here on Portfolio.com, we just published a story I wrote that explains a lot about WHY there's so much heat over this "next billion" market.

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