OLPC Gets $5.6M Grant To Develop Tablet With Marvell

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 4, 2010 @08:54AM from the one-hip-device-per-child dept.

tugfoigel writes "According to Xconomy, 'The One Laptop per Child Foundation and Santa Clara, CA-based semiconductor maker Marvell have cemented a partnership announced last spring, with Marvell agreeing to provide OLPC with $5.6 million to fund development of its next generation tablet computer. Nicholas Negroponte says the deal, signed in the past week or so but not previously announced, runs through 2011. "Their money is a grant to the OLPC Foundation to develop a tablet or tablets based on their chip," he says. The OLPC tablet ... is known as the XO 3 because it represents the third-generation of the XO laptop currently sold by OLPC (the foundation scrapped plans for its e-book-like XO 2 computer and is moving straight to the tablet). ... The deal, he says, means the tablet's development is "fully funded."'"

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Dang, not Marvel comics by LetterRip · 2010-10-04 08:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Anyone else disappointed it wasn't a Marvel comics themed OLPC :)
1. Re:Dang, not Marvel comics by Yvan256 · 2010-10-04 09:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Since these things run on batteries, I think it would be a DC comics themed OLPC anyway.
Re:And we need this why? by h4rr4r · 2010-10-04 10:54 · Score: 2, Funny

The Microsoft pitch was simpler:
We will sell you an OS and an office suite, and give you a huge bribe.
The rest is up to you.
Fixed that for you.