Intel resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Project"s board of directors after refusing a request to abandon its Classmate PC program, according to a source familiar with the situation. Intel"s departure from OLPC"s board means that an effort to build a version of the project"s XO laptop based on an Intel processor is over, the source said.
Intel"s Classmate PC is a low-cost laptop designed for students in developing countries and competes against OLPC"s XO laptop, which is based on a microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Intel and OLPC agreed in July to work together on the development of technology for low-cost laptops and to stop disparaging each other"s laptop offerings.