Lenovo
50x15 Partner Description: Private-Enterprise Partner
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Lenovo is an innovative, international technology company formed as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division.
As a global leader in the PC market, Lenovo develops, manufacturers and markets cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services that provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive.
Lenovo bases its success on its customers achieving their goals: productivity in business and enhancement of personal life.
Lenovo is committed to providing innovative designs that help change the way people around the world use technology. In line with these values Lenovo recently announced their smallest, quietest, most energy-efficient desktop ever - The ThinkCentre A61e. Energy-efficient operation in a space-saving design, the A61e is rated EPEAT gold and is in compliance with Energy Star® 4.0. These attributes coupled with AMD’s energy-efficient AMD Athlon™ X2 dual-core processor or AMD Sempron single-core processor create a solution that can be used toward furthering the 50x15 Initiative.
Lenovo and AMD
What began in early 2006 as an ambitious collaboration between AMD, Lenovo and Dawning to connect 200,000 students in China's Hebei Province to the Internet has grown into a massive nationwide effort in which the three industry partners deployed more than 368,000 computers in schools across 18 provinces, enabling literally millions of students in China with computing capability and Internet access. This is an unprecedented achievement both for the 50x15 Initiative founded by AMD and for the IT industry overall.
AMD’s success in China is due to the 50x15 ecosystem approach we’ve taken with our industry partners in China," said Gustavo Arenas, AMD Senior Vice President of World Wide High Growth Markets. "Technology is important, but technology alone is not the answer. Creating a model in which digital inclusion becomes sustainable is key and the only way to do that is to establish the right ecosystem of partners - in this case our industry partners, Lenovo for desktops and Dawning for servers, state and national government agencies, educational organizations and even local government organizations, school systems and teachers.
AMD's involvement in connecting schools in China began in 2004, when the company teamed with Lenovo and Dawning to bid on what was at the time a government pilot project designed to learn more about the challenges of enabling schools around the country with Internet access.
Earlier that year, the Chinese government had announced a massive information strategy designed to propel the country to the forefront of global technology and business leadership within 15 years. The education component of the national information strategy is called the Remote Education Project (REP) and is intended to connect all schools across the country, particularly schools in remote and underdeveloped areas, to the Internet.
As a prelude to the national effort, government officials decided to launch a pilot program in Hebei to learn more about the feasibility and challenges of undertaking a full-up national effort. After developing a framework for the pilot, the Ministries of Education and Information, and the government of Hebei issued a national request for proposals. AMD, Lenovo and Dawning responded and won the bid. Lenovo provided desktop computers based on AMD Sempronâ„¢ processors and Dawning provided servers based on AMD Opteronâ„¢ processors.
By mid-2005, the industry team had deployed more than 26,000 AMD processor-based computers in schools across Hebei and had connected more than 200,000 students. The government was so impressed with the results that it awarded the three companies additional contracts to proceed with similar deployments in 17 additional provinces throughout the country.
Contact Information
Lenovo
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Morrisville, North Carolina 27560
United States
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