XO-3 update: OLPC and Marvell partner to design a line of tablets
This post is now in French on the OLPC France blog – thanks, Lionel!
I’m happy to announce that today we finalized a partnership with Marvell to design a line of education-focused tablet computers. Some of these will be OLPC machines targeted for the developing world, such as the XO-3. The line will be based both on Marvell’s reference design for its Moby tablet and on OLPC’s XO-3 designs (particularly for the low-power end of the line). (Hat-tip to Charbax for predicting this in March.)
Update: see also this video of Nicholas discussing our current tablet plans. (If you look cexercise/>losely, you can see that some of the highlights were from a talk in the new Media Lab building.)
The first tablets in the line will be based cexercise/>losely on the Moby, ”’not”’ the XO-3, and focused more on children in the developed world. They will be on display at CES 2011 in January, and available next year for under $100. The original XO-3 design is still planned for 2012. More details after the jump.
Some background: Marvell is a long-time supporter of OLPC and one of our founding Board members, with a deep organizational interest in education. They supplied the wireless chips used in the XO designs to date, and have contributed related testing and debugging. This partnership marks a much more serious collaboration in hardware design.
The Moby is currently being piloted in at-risk schools in Washington DC, and Marvell is investing in a Mobylize campaign to improve tech adoption within US classrooms. This should help lower-case olpc move forward in the developed world — we still lag behind many European and Asian countries in both bandwidth and classroom technology.
OLPC are moving forward with our XO-1.75 designs for an lower-power ARM-based version of the current XO design — this will be the next model for our target schools. The XO-3 is still planned for late 2012, and will benefit from the experience of both the 1.75 and the Moby efforts.
Weili Dai, Marvell’s co-founder, says about the partnership:
“The Moby tablet platform – and our partnership with OLPC – represents our joint passion and commitment to give students the power to learn, create, connect and collaborate in entirely new ways. I am immensely proud of the capability of our Moby tablet and I am extremely honored to partner with the inventor of the netbook market for education, Dr. Nicholas Negroponte. I applaud his leadership, vision, passion and together we will make the world a better place.”
Nicholas and Ed and our Marvell partners have been giving interviews for two days leading up to this morning’s announcement. Other news writeups:
- Network World posted a video update, with comments from Nicholas
- Gizmodo: OLPC XO-3 Dream Tablet May Come True After All
- Forbes: One Laptop Per Child Revamps Tablet Plans
- PC World: OLPC Says XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming in 2010
$100 computing in 2010 | One Laptop per Child said,
May 27, 2010 @ 10:57 am
[...] office, and happily tested them out) and Marvell’s Moby (projected at $99, but the design may change), and 5 new Android devices VIA expects to see come out for between $100 and $150 next [...]
SJ’s Longest Now » Blog Archive » OLPC updates its hardware roadmap said,
May 27, 2010 @ 11:51 am
[...] and OLPC just announced a partnership to design a line of tablets, including the current Marvell Moby and the OLPC XO-3 reference designs. This is good news for [...]
Viv said,
May 27, 2010 @ 12:44 pm
This really isn’t a comment. I have a question and that is…are these $100 computers available in the USA for us to buy? I only see that these computers are available to other countries. I have grandchildren that I would love to purchase a couple of them for. And if we can purchase them how or where can they purchased at?
platypus said,
May 27, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
Marvell Comics at least will add to the popularity and I don’t see how it can harm as long as they stay focused on the mission of OLPC. I just hope they don’t become a vehicle for the big comic book Hollywood movies. Hopefully they share the same vision in bringing education to children and not viewing them as potential revenue source for their comic book merchandise.
OLPC partners with Marvell for their new XO tablet | GottaBeMobile said,
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OLPC takes tablet route, working on XO-3 tablet prototype - fujiang.info said,
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XO-3 news around the world | One Laptop per Child said,
May 28, 2010 @ 3:15 pm
[...] newswires in other languages (in French, in Spanish, in German); they tend to be confused about what will be available when at what cost. Still, it’s fascinating to read some of the international views on what this [...]
Планета е-книг » Blog Archive » OLPC плюс Marvell равно XO-3 said,
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TekJoos - TekJoos said,
May 29, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
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Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » Sub $100 Tablet in 2011 said,
May 30, 2010 @ 7:20 am
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XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75, XO-2, XO-3 ? | OLPC France said,
May 30, 2010 @ 9:11 am
[...] mock-up ont été publiés par Yves Behar sur son site. [MAJ 30/05/2010] La fondation a annoncé un partenariat avec Marvell pour produire d’ici Janvier 2011 une première version d’une tablette qui serait la [...]
Partenariat Marvell/OLPC pour le XO-3: décryptage | OLPC France said,
May 30, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
[...] Voici la traduction de l’annonce de la fondation publiée sur son blog officiel: [...]
Lionel said,
May 30, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
Hi Samuel,
Due to a relative confusion in newspapers in France about this announcement, we decided to do a French translation of this post on our blog. Available on http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/05/partenariat-marvellolpc-pour-le-xo-3-decryptage/
Lionel.
OLPC: il progetto del 2011 con Marvell ed XO 3 del 2012 | setteB.IT said,
May 31, 2010 @ 1:02 am
[...] una nuova piattaforma basata su un processore Marvell. L’idea di come potrà essere nel 2012 il modello XO 3 l’avevamo già avuta 5 mesi fa, ma per il CES del 2011 (in gennaio) sarà [...]
OLPC announces XO-3 tablet - GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool said,
May 31, 2010 @ 12:44 pm
[...] On May 27th the OLPC foundation announced that they formed a partnership with Marvell to build a line of new tablet PC´s in the upcoming years. One of those is supposed to be the OLPC XO-3. More information can be found in the OLPC press release here. [...]
sj said,
May 31, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
Viv – not at present, though the first Marvell machines are likely to be available for purchase next Spring.
Platypus – a good point. I believe they had to agree to rebrand Xavier’s kids the XO-Men and to have them fight ignorance in future films; which is a start.
Lional – superb, thank you. Now Adam has a version of the post he can read as well.
Lionel said,
June 1, 2010 @ 3:44 am
Thanks SJ but you miss the “h” of “http” in the link in your post.
Hehehe Adam is the most frenchy guy at OLPC
Innovation Works…in Un-mysterious Ways « The Innovation Movement said,
June 1, 2010 @ 5:21 pm
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From One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) to Tablets | Trends In Ed said,
June 4, 2010 @ 11:17 am
[...] Nearly 2 million children worldwide already use the renowned XO laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Now OLPC has teamed up with developer Marvell to design the next generation of durable, low-cost computers for students in global regions underserved by technology: The sub-$100 XO tablet. [...]
La Tablet de OLPC | Blumex said,
June 7, 2010 @ 8:01 am
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XO-3 interview compilation | One Laptop per Child said,
June 15, 2010 @ 1:01 pm
[...] about the XO-3 and our latest Marvell collaboration. If you didn’t pick it out of the original announcement, it’s worth a watch — and it’s a good short summary of where we are heading. [...]
Jake said,
August 19, 2010 @ 11:53 pm
This isn’t a comment, but I HAVE to know ARE THESE GOING TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE USA? I mean, why not? Other countries aren’t the only place children need laptops. PLEASE tell me this will be available in America too!
OLPC partners with Marvell for their new XO tablet « Tech Remix said,
February 27, 2011 @ 3:43 pm
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Exploring New Technologies | One Laptop per Child said,
April 4, 2011 @ 6:53 pm
[...] His first blog post covers his work this month to explore of software development paths for the XO-3. Welcome [...]
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Reflecting on OLPC in 2011 | One Laptop per Child said,
December 31, 2011 @ 6:46 pm
[...] focused on further reducing power needs by switching over to ARM chips in the XO-1.75 and upcoming XO-3 tablet. The tablet should be chargable by a solar panel that could serve as its carrying-case. We are [...]
The XO-3 $100 tablet debuts at CES | One Laptop per Child said,
January 7, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
[...] XO-3 prototype is debuting at CES this weekend, and will be shown off next week at the Marvell [...]
OLPC and Marvell announce the XO 3.0 tablet | One Laptop per Child said,
January 9, 2012 @ 5:02 am
[...] helping every child in the world gain access to a modern education, demonstrated a version of the much-anticipated XO 3.0 – a low-cost, low-power, rugged tablet computer designed for classrooms around the globe [...]