Intel and Negroponte Split Over the $100 Laptop

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times both ran articles this week about Intel leaving Negroponte's OLPC Nonprofit Organization. OLPC is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring learning opportunities to the most remote and poorest children of the world by providing connected, low-cost and rugged laptops to each and every child in their daily lives.

Intel had paid $6 million and promised to contribute another $12 million to Negroponte's organization. The dispute is over Intel's aggressive marketing of the Classmate PC.