OLPC , short for One Laptop Per Child, began as the vision of Nicholas Negroponte at the MIT Media Lab.  The idea was to create a PC so inexpensive that every student on the planet could have access to technology. After a few years of fits and starts, OLPC is showing off renderings of its  next generation XO-3 tablet.  The tablet aims to resolve some former impediments: high price and energy efficiency . The company hopes to keep the price of the tablet at around $75. Currently the OLPC XO notebook costs under $200. OLPC's new tablet is banking on a just annonced partnership with Marvell , a company with low cost chip design and handheld formats like its Mobi that are  gaining the respect of the edtech community.  To read more about Marvell.
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