Not content with just downplaying the One-Laptop-Per-Child project as a US$100-gadget, Intel now teams up with Asustek to produce a cheap laptop. This product will directly compete with the OLPC.

This is not the first time that Intel took a stab at the OLPC. The first one was the Classmate PC. And now, this.

The man behind the OLPC project, Nicholas Negroponte, was at one time furious about Intel. I wonder what would be his reaction to this news.

Sorry, Nick. Intel has to earn in order to dominate the world.

(This is capitalism at its best.)