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I’d like to hope that Intel will have a very positive attitude with OLPC going forward. Firstly not to “compete” XO-1 by dumping low volume of Classmate-1. And not dumping EEE-1 in low volumes eigther.

Intel should contribute competing with AMD towards the low power fanless CPU for XO-2, there should be an even lower power CPU than LX-700, with DCON, instant-resume and all perticular innovative and extremely usefull technologies of OLPC integrated, which are not integrated in anyway in Classmate-1/EEE-1. LX-700 type of processor could run Windows XP, so there isn’t an argument for more power unless it can be made for cheaper and by lower power consumption.

Then Intel could provide cheap low power Mobile 802.16e WiMax for XO-2, if they can develop a WiMax Mesh network technology, a low-power WiMax chip that has its own ultra-low power CPU and memory just as the Marvell WiFi Mesh chip of the XO-1. Then it should be researched if WiMax can replace WiFi or if it should be a secondary wireless access to add.

Intel has dozens of other cool things to contribute, but always keeping in mind that the price of XO should decrease towards $50 by 2009.

The High-K/Metal Gate Research and Development, the multiple-cores, the built-in graphics acceleration, lots of other things Intel has knowledge and ressources to make, it should be evaluated which of these technologies can be contributed to lowering the cost and lowering the power consumption.

I believe there are enough people on this planet for all kinds of computers. There will still be alot of people who need to encode videos faster, play new 3D games, process graphics and animations, those people will continue to need the expensive computers. And then there is an enormous untapped market in the developping and in the western world for people who will need very low cost and very low power computers. It’s inevitable now, the upwards spiral in price/power consumption is not applicable any longer. So Intel is welcome to be part of that kind of future, it’s gonna be a fun for everyone, with low margins and large volumes.