Algerian Ministry of Education launches two new NVIDIA configurations for its "home PC for school students" scheme
ALGERIA: NVIDIA today announced that its GeForce chipsets have been selected by the Ministry of Education in Algeria for its new scheme of providing home PCs for its school-going students in easy, affordable installments. The two types of PCs are aimed at elementary school level students with NVIDIA's entry level GeForce 210, 1Gb chipsets and the second is a more powerful machine for high school students with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 610 2Gb chipsets.
The project is being tested in Algeria and 14,000 units have already been delivered. As part of the Ministry's visionary program to support students in accessing world-class technology, NVIDIA's GeForce chipsets were selected for their high performance and superior visual experience. The PCs will be assembled in Algeria with internationally acclaimed components including NVIDIA and delivered locally on demand. The Ministry hopes to provide equipment to more than two million students across the country.
More information about the GeForce GPUs is available from http://www.geforce.co.uk. For more NVIDIA news, company and product information, videos, images and other information, visit the NVIDIA newsroom. The NVIDIA Flickr page has product photos.
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NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Today, its processors power a broad range of products from smartphones to supercomputers. NVIDIA's mobile processors are used in cell phones, tablets and auto infotainment systems. PC gamers rely on GPUs to enjoy spectacularly immersive worlds. Professionals use them to create 3D graphics and visual effects in movies and to design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets. And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high performance computing. The company has more than 5,000 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.
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