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AMD wins school deal in China

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SAN FRANCISCO: AMD Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Dawning Information Industry have won a contract to supply 26,000 AMD-based computers for newly wired classrooms in a Chinese province.

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The program, in the eastern province of Hebei, will benefit at least 200,000 students, AMD said in a statement. Each classroom selected for the program will receive one computer server powered by AMD's Opteron chip and 30 desktop PCs.

The deal marks an important win for AMD with Lenovo, a Chinese computer maker that is buying the PC business of IBM. Growth in emerging markets is a top priority for AMD and its much larger rival, Intel Corp.

Hebei Province is the demonstration site for a nationwide long-distance education program that began in October 2004, AMD said in a statement.

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