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To: Sig who wrote (136536)	7/14/1999 7:23:00 AM
From: Patrick E.McDaniel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Sig,Dell signs billion dollar deal with Acer Taiwan's Acer Group has signed an original manufacturing product contract with Dell Computer to produce desktop and notebook computers, an Acer official confirmed today. Acer will produce about 1.3 million low-end computers for $929 million, and expects to begin shipping the computers in the first quarter of next year, said Bruce Brough, a spokesman for Acer America Systems Group, in San Jose, Calif. A Dell spokeswoman at company headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, refused to confirm the agreement. The deal is the second of its kind that Acer has signed recently with a major American computer vendor. Last month,Acer said it would buy $8 billion worth of hard drives, chips, networking, and display technology from IBM for use in its server, desktop and notebook computers. Acer will also sell IBM products through its sales channels. Acer and IBM also have a previously existing "multi-billion" agreement under which Acer manufactures PCs sold worldwide under the IBM brand. Acer's low manufacturing costs allowed it to compete successfully against Taiwanese rivals such as Quanta Computer, Mitac International, and GVC, Brough said. "Acer is quite vertically integrated," he said. "It makes semiconductors and peripherals. In fact, it is one of the few companies that makes almost all the products it is selling."