There are currently five companies bidding for the deal, including four Taiwanese vendors and one from South Korea.
"The impact of US$100 laptops on the industry or consumer behavior will be far greater than most people have anticipated," Hsueh said.
"Just like the MIT Media Lab, we are trying to explore something which might not even exist now. Commercializing these ideas will be the natural progression for the next step, but for now, we want Taiwanese firms to dare to dream," she said.
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