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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