OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via

One laptop by laptop of project 'of S XO of child will commutate with has via the processor as an element of a general material regenerate.

Generation 1.5 of the machine of XO will have the same industrial design that the original model, but will employ has via the processor of C7-M, John Watlington, OLPC 'vice-president of S of the development of material, wrote in a post Friday. Currently the XO, which is the educational markets concerned of the countries in the process of development, uses a processor of AMD Geode.

But of design is to provide a total update of the system in the same identification and, external of aspect Watlington wrote. In order to maximize compatibility with the existing software, this regenerate will continue a processor x86, using tiddlywinks from the intermediary of.

Generation 1.5 of XO will arrive in November, OLPC Nicholas as a Negroponte chief says ZDNet UK Monday. He said that the shift with via the piece occurred because AMD had stopped its basic processor power.

Watlington indicated that regeneration was separated from the of the �GEN 2.0 � the project, in which OLPC will commutate with one Arm-based, instead of x86-based, the processor. The first of the laptops of XO 2.0 will launch at the beginning of 2011, Negroponte indicated.

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In generation 1.5 of XO regenerate, the memory of the XO will be amplified of 256MB with 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Its instantaneous storage will go to the top of 1GB to 4GB, with an option for 8GB.

Via the processor a range of clock of 400MHz with 1GHz will have, having for result the power of 1.5W with 5W, Watlington indicated. It will be integrated in the XO as an element from the intermediary of 'the new VX855 tiddlywinks of S, which will also amplify the audio and visual execution of XO 'of S, it added.

While the revised XO will employ existing posting, the OLPC functions with the PixelQi originator of screen to improve its glare and the effectiveness, Watlington wrote. The new machine will also require update with the software of OLPC in order to support the new material, it said.

Watlington indicated that versions early new material will be released for the development of driver at the end of May, with more prototypes leaving for the development of software and to examine around at the end of August.