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electronista.com - 3/13/2009

OLPC's XO-2 likely to drom AMD chips for ARM

— electronista.com — The One Laptop Per Child project's CTO Ed McNierney today said that the organization's XO-2 notebook will... most likely drop AMD's Geode processor in favor of an ARM-based, all-in-one processor. OLPC is "almost" set to implement a new chip and would ... (more) OLPC's XO-2 likely to drom AMD chips for ARM

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