BANGKOK,
May 10 (Xinhua) -- Thai government signed a contract with a Chinese company on
Thursday to buy one million tablet computers for primary school students.
Shenzhen
Scope Scientific Development Co (Scope) shall deliver 400,000 tablets, priced
32.8 million U.S. dollars, within 60 days. A total of one million tablets will
be purchased by repeat order, according the contract between the company and
Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
Thai
Ministry of Education had previously planned to hand out the tablets to Grade 1
primary school students. It is part of the "One Tablet per Child
Program" -- providing each school child with a tablet computer, promised
by the ruling Pheu Thai during last year's election.
The minimum
requirements for the tablet include 1 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB storage and
7-inch crosswise screen, according to the contract.
Liu Jun,
chairman of Scope, said the company can produce more than 20,000 tablets per
day. "I'm certain that our company can deliver the tablets in time."
Scope will
dedicate about 19 of its over 30 production lines for the tablets. Each
production line can produce 1,000 tablet in an 8-hour shift. "We can work
for more than one shift a day. So 20, 000 tablets a day is not a problem,"
Liu said.
Editor: Luan
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