Intel leaves the OLPC

Barely six months after Intel and OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte patched up their differences with the former eventually joining the foundation, it has now decided to break away again.

According to Intel, Negroponte was requiring it to drop its Classmate PC platform (of which the Asus Eee PC belongs to) while it is part of the OLPC, which offers the comparable AMD-based XO. Negroponte had previously went on TV and accused Intel of dumping Classmate PCs below cost to penetrate the OLPC's announced target market countries even before OLPC had launch its product.

Upon joining the OLPC, Intel has been working with the latter to produce an Intel-based version XO. That obviously won't happen now unless the two parties patch things up again.

More details at CNet.