An uneasy partnership between Intel and a non-profit project providing cheap laptops for third-world children has ended acrimoniously with the world’s biggest chipmaker being accused of “shameless” behaviour.
An Intel spokesman on Thursday described the split between the company and One Laptop Per Child as being caused by a “philosophical impasse”. But OLPC responded on Friday with a 10-point list of complaints, accusing Intel of constantly criticising the project’s XO laptop and promoting instead its own Classmate laptop for developing countries.
