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One Laptop Per Childand Nomadic Displays
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$100 Laptop in the News• peak >3 Million Google hits on “$100 laptop”•~150 “Heads of State”• UN Summit, Vatican, •Committed Countries:
•Brazil, Egypt, Thailand, USA (Massachusetts), •Costa Rica, Tunisia, Cambodia
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Structure
One Laptop Per Child Assoc., MIT, perhaps others
For Profit Companies
Non Profit
Other:Component SuppliersODMsIndustrial DesignReference Designs
Government Ministries of Education will distribute the laptops(or UNDP)Average 20$/child/year for textbooks in Brazil, China$100 laptop for textbook replacement/electronic distribution1B children in world with internet connectivity
TAM = 1B children, +50M new/yr
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Getting to the $100 Laptop
HOW:•No Sales, Marketing, Distribution
•First Purchase Order 4-6M units•Linux•Reduce display cost leveraging
•LED brightness •TFT LCD availability•HDTV buildout
Gross Breakdown in Laptop Costs 2005
Display 25% Sales Marketing
Distribution 50%
Support of MSFT Windows XP 25%
OLPC Proposal$100 Laptop Cost 2005
Display
500MHz, 0.5G 128M DRAM,
Linux
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4mm airgap
0.7mm LCD Coverglass
1.5 m Lenticular
0.53 mm lenticularpitch0.7mm radius of curvature
Diffraction Grating (embossed)1700 lp/mm + 45 degree twist
arbitrary
Light guide plate
1-D fresnel collimater
1-DCylindricalLens Collimator
arbitrary
Breakthrough - $100 Laptop
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OLPC Mother Board v. 1
PCIBus
WiFiWiFiDisplayDisplay
DR
AM
DR
AM
128M
B12
8MB
AMDAMDGX2GX2
AMDAMD55365536
Flash Flash 0.5GB0.5GB
USB1USB1USB2USB2
USB3USB3USB4USB4 AudioAudio
PCI BUSPCI BUS
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First Generation Laptop• AMD processor 500Mhz• >7” SVGA LCD Dual Mode• WiFi, mesh networking• Crankable power re-charge• 0.5Gb Flash • Linux + Open Applications• 4 USB ports• “MIT Inside” education software
TIMELINE– Demo to UN 11/05– Start ramp Q406– Pilot: 6M units– 10’s of Millions Units thereafter (‘07,’08)Note: other timelines for telecom infrastructure, training, etc.
Countries for initial +6M unit Pilot order:
Nicholas Negroponte with Governor Romney (Massachusetts)Submitting One laptop per child bill to Massachusetts Legislature 9/22/05
•Tunisia•Cambodia•Costa Rica
•Brazil•Thailand•Egypt•USA (Massachusetts)
Committed in various ways: In process:•A black African country•China
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Nomadic Displays
Dr. Mary Lou JepsenMIT Media LaboratoryOne Laptop Per Child
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The display is a problem
We can’t see it
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Longer Range