The US$100 laptop PC at the heart of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative aimed at school children in developing countries will start rolling off production lines in the second quarter of next year.
Taiwan's Quanta Computer, the largest contract notebook PC manufacturer in the world, was tapped by the OLPC project to produce the low-cost devices, and says it's gearing up to play its part.
Although the final numbers will depend on how many orders come in for the US$100 laptops, Quanta expects to produce 10 million of the devices in the first year of production, a company representative said Monday.
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