The One Laptop per Child project would welcome Intel, the chip maker if sent back to the group, the head of the OLPC said last week.

The explanation came just days after Intel, the group is leaving the Board of Directors of what he said was OLPC insistence that it is a task of rival low-cost laptop developed by Intel, the Classmate PC. OLPC said he asked if something is not Intel, and is pleased that the Classmate PC more, because the low-cost laptops at the disposal, the more it is in the hands of children in the Third World.

“It was very unfortunate, what happens with Intel, and I hope that there is an opportunity for the reconstruction of the future, because there is no interest in OLPC Intel pushes. Ce n’est not only in our interest. Our goal is to That is as many children as possible, “said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the OLPC, in an interview.

He called it regrettable that the reports from Intel, OLPC requested that the manufacturer of the chip is no longer working on the Classmate PC. “The picture painted was one of OLPC, anti-competition, which is ridiculous. We would like to know how many laptops as possible outside and the children have the widest choice possible, “he said.

Intel would be willing to become familiar with the OLPC, said Agnes Kwan, a director of Intel. But she added that the organization a break-up because of differences between groups are still fail to solve them.

The OLPC project began as an attempt to build a USD 100 Laptop is aimed at children in poor countries, but the laptop group, XO, is scheduled by the end cost almost twice this amount at the outset. The organizers of efforts, under the guidance of scientists and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the hope heavy turnover of the laptop, the cost to stop.

The goal of the OLPC, to ensure that everyone was on the benefits of using. The fear is that the price of a PC is, many people in developing countries to learn, as reflected in the software, Internet and communications and the benefits that would improve their economies, work and live, or that poor countries fall increasingly to the world of modern art because of their inability to access the computer, as an enigma of the digital divide.