Intel Classmate is their version of One Laptop Per Child. The Classmate needs a cooler and has a battery life of 2 hours with heavy use. Bloomberg News, June 12, 2007 - INTC will cut prices of its Core 2 Quad processor by 50 percent on July 22, according to an Intel document given to clients. The chips, introduced in November to run servers and the most expensive personal computers, sell for $530 each, according to Santa Clara, California-based Intel's Web site.

Barcelona is AMD's quad processor, competing with the Core 2 Quad. Eric Savitz of Barrons, reported June 6, 2007: Citigroup’s Glen Yeung wrote in a research note Tuesday that “several sources” at the Computex 2007 show in Taiwan this week, including vendors, distributors and board makers, “have confirmed” that Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) Barcelona server processor, originally expected to ship June or July, now isn’t expected until September or October. Yeung writes that “yield problems” were most frequently cited as the reason for the delay. AMD powers John Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child computer. The MIT professor designed a $100 laptop for developing countries. OLPC is designed to use power more efficiently than the Classmate. It consumes 1/6 of the power of the Classmate's LCD in full backlight mode.

The largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world. Will benefit whether OLPC or Intel wins.

Supplier of yield management equipment to the semiconductor industry. If the OLPC takes off, the need for the highest yield on production runs will be intense, creating a great profit opportunity.

Major semiconductor fabrication manufacturer. Should do well if OLPC project comes to fruition. However, a June 14 article mentioned that semiconductor orders forecasts have been slashed 7%.

Another chip fabrication manufacturer. Should do well if the OLPC project comes to fruition.

Semiconductor ETF, holding many of the semiconductor stocks affected by the INTC-AMD showdown.

Market cap weighted semiconductor ETF, managed by Goldman Sachs. Holds 56 stocks, with INTC and TXN making up 18.2%.