The money comes from fragment creator Marvell that became a member and unite of OLPC in early 2009.
The OLPC organization mentioned the give meant it had all the growth money it indispensable to create its next machine.
OLPC mentioned it would uncover off the initial growth work on the new appurtenance at the CES uncover in January 2011.
The money handed over by Marvell will account growth of a inscription chronicle of the XO - the imperishable P.C. written to speed up preparation in building nations.
The device is code-named XO-3 as it will be the third device the OLPC organization has produced. It formerly scrapped skeleton is to XO-2 that was to resemble an electronic book.
Early prototypes of the XO-3 will expected be formed on the Moby appurtenance that Marvell already makes. The ended XO-3 should be ready in 2012.
The OLPC organization was combined with the goal of creation a laptop costing usually $100 that would be paid for in outrageous quantities by poorer nations interested to obtain young kids using computers.
The last appurtenance constructed by OLPC in 2007 ended up costing about $199 and did not sell in the outrageous quantities the group wanted. To date about 1.4 million XO laptops have been distributed.
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