OLPC XO's Production Cost

The BBC has posted a breakdown of costs for the OLPC XO which is being produced by Quanta of Taiwan. The final design will have more than 800 parts from multiple suppliers such as chip-maker AMD, which supplies the low-power processor at the heart of the machine.



Total is USD176, which is practically around the price at which OLPC intends to sell to third-world governments. Hmmmm.

At any rate, a more interesting info would be the breakdown of costs for the Asus Eee PC 701.