Red Herring: The Hundred-Buck PC

“The founder and chairman of the MIT Media Lab wants to create a
$100 portable computer for the developing world. Nicholas
Negroponte, author of Being Digital and the Wiesner Professor of
Media Technology at MIT, says he has obtained promises of support
from a number of major companies, including Advanced Micro Devices,
Google, Motorola, Samsung, and News Corp.

“The low-cost computer will have a 14-inch color screen, AMD
chips, and will run Linux software, Mr. Negroponte said during an
interview Friday with Red Herring at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland. AMD is separately working on a cheap desktop
computer for emerging markets. It will be sold to governments for
wide distribution…”

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