India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop

Shaon published 05 May 2007, 21:12 in main - 341 views

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One hundred dollars for a laptop? Highway robbery, according to policymakers in India.

The country that last year said no to MIT luminary Nicholas Negroponte's plan to introduce portable computers that would sell for a C-note is instead aiming for laptops that would cost $10. That's roughly the price of a ham sandwich in New York.

India's Ministry of Human Resource Development is spearheading the project, with help from Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits. Officials from those organizations are presently weighing system designs submitted by an engineering student from India's Vellore Institute of Technology and a researcher from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

The Times of India on Friday reported that the efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47, while a $10 system remains the ultimate goal.

News source: InformationWeek

Tags: India, $10 Laptop

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