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Posted by Winston
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 21:58 |
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"The One Laptop Per Child organisation has been given a $5.6m (£3.5m) grant to develop a tablet version of its educational computer. The cash comes from chip maker Marvell which became a supporter and sponsor of OLPC in early 2009.
The OLPC organisation said the grant meant it had all the development cash it needed to produce its next machine. OLPC said it would show off the first development work on the new machine at the CES show in January 2011.
The cash handed over by Marvell will fund development of a tablet version of the XO - the rugged computer designed to boost education in developing nations.
The device is code-named XO-3 as it will be the third device the OLPC organisation has produced. It previously scrapped plans for the XO-2 which was to resemble an electronic book."
Source: BBC
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