Lenovo will manufacture a PC designed to make e-commerce easier for small and medium-sized Chinese businesses.
Equipped with e-commerce applications from Alibaba, the new computers will be based on Lenovo’s Yangtian desktop PC line. They will be available from September.
Intel and Alibaba announced plans in May to build an e-commerce PC but they didn’t have a manufacturer for the computer, or a firm date for when the computers would be available.
While the release date for the computers is now clear, other details have yet to be announced.
Lenovo’s statement did not detail technical specifications of the new PC line, except to say the computers will be based on Intel processors made using a 45-nanometer manufacturing process.
The e-commerce PC will not be a ‘nettop,’ a term the chip maker uses to describe low-cost desktops based on Atom processors. It will be a proper desktop.
Source: Network World