Craig Barrett

...of Windows on the machines. That seemed to vanish before long, as Microsoft's Bill Gates and a close partner, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, publicly dismissed the XOs' scaled-back processing power and small screen. At first Negroponte wore...

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...which recently cut half of its staff. Another technology highlighted by Barrett was a game that educates young Africans about HIV and the risks of unprotected sexual behavior. The game is set in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, and...

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...Origins] When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. Far more hurtful...

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...because it didn't use Intel microprocessors or Microsoft's operating system. In July, Barrett softened his stance and joined the board of One Laptop Per Child. While the XO laptops originally only contained microprocessors from AMD, Intel's...

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...it means for the rest of the tech world. Intel, particularly via its Chairman Craig Barrett, has in the past been quite critical of the XO and and Negroponte's ideas for how it should be used. As recently as May, when 60 Minutes aired a...

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...before long, as Microsoft's Bill Gates and a close partner, Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett, publicly dismissed the XOs' scaled-back processing power and small screen. At first Negroponte wore the criticism as a badge of honor, saying it...

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The featured speaker at the digital divide session was Intel (Charts) Chairman Craig Barrett, who has been outspokenly critical of Negroponte's laptop, in part because it is based on a processor chip from arch-rival AMD (Charts). Intel...

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...glowering down on him in judgment. Over the course of the year, Craig Barrett, Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weighed in, privately declining support and in some cases publicly disparaging the idea. The naysayers had a point. The...

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...up with technologist Nicholas Negroponte, who has been developing a $100 laptop. Hardware is one part, but "connectivity," says Barrett, "is just as important." Homegrown Indian hardware companies like HCL Technologies (HCLT.BO), he notes,...

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