OLPC’s first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of hardware whose performance could be excused for its .8W appetite.
Yesterday, however, the company announced a new class of processors, called Bobcat, to be released in 2011 and designed to...
