88-1992: (Redirected from Naito ) Naitō , Naito or Naitou (written: 内藤) is a Japanese name, also transliterated as Naitoh or Nightow . Notable people with the surname include: Arimasa Naitoh ( 内藤 在正 ) , vice president of Lenovo's PC and Smart Devices business unit, known as the "Father of ThinkPad" Bill Naito ( 内藤 住郎 , 1925–1996) , American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist Daisuke Naito ( 内藤 大助 , born 1974) , Japanese professional boxer Kanako Naito ( 内藤 香菜子 , 1980–2019) , Japanese female volleyball player Kunio Naitō ( 内藤 國雄 , born 1939) , Japanese professional shogi player Naitō Genzaemon ( 内藤 源左衛門 ) , Japanese samurai Naitō Ienaga ( 内藤 家長 , 1546–1600) , Japanese samurai Naitō Joan ( 内藤 如安 , died 1626) , Japanese samurai Naitō Kiyokazu ( 内藤 清枚 , 1645–1714) , Japanese daimyo Naitō Kiyonaga ( 内藤 清長 , 1501–1564) , Japanese samurai Masato Naito ( 内藤 真人 , born 1980) , Japanese hurler Masatoshi Naitō ( 内藤 正敏 , born 1938) , Japanese photographer Naitō Nobuatsu ( 内藤 信敦 , 1777–1825) , Japanese daimyo Naitō Nobuchika ( 内藤 信親 , 1813–1874) , Japanese daimyo Naitō Nobunari ( 内藤 信成 , 1545–1612) , Japanese samurai Ryō Naitō ( 内藤 玲 , born 1974) , Japanese voice actor Tachū Naitō ( 内藤 多仲 , 1886–1970) , Japanese architect, engineer, and professor Tadayuki Naitoh ( 内藤 忠行 , born 1941) , Japanese photographer Tetsuya Naito ( 内藤 哲也 , born 1982) , Japanese professional wrestler Naitō Torajirō ( 内藤 虎次郎 , 1866–1934) , Japanese historian Naitō Toyomasa ( 内藤 豊昌 , 1773–1856) , Japanese sculptor Yasuhiro Nightow ( 内藤 泰弘 , born 1967) , Japanese manga artist Yasuo Naito ( 内藤 靖雄 , born 1942) , Japanese racewalker Yohei Naito ( 内藤 洋平 , born 1988) , Japanese footballer Yuki Naito ( 内藤 祐希 , born 2001) , Japanese tennis player [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
176-484: A 5% share. Lenovo and NEC also agreed to explore cooperating in other areas such as servers and tablet computers. Roderick Lappin, chairman of the Lenovo–NEC joint venture, told the press that the two companies will expand their co-operation to include the development of tablet computers. In June 2011, Lenovo announced that it planned to acquire control of Medion , a German electronics manufacturing company. Lenovo said
264-579: A change in typography or the look of the logo. We asked 'If we really are a net-driven, customer-centric company, what should the logo look like?' We came up with the idea of a digital logo first [...] designed to be used on the internet and adaptable to context." In early June 2015, Lenovo announced plans to sell up to US$ 650 million in five-year bonds denominated in Chinese yuan. The bonds were sold in Hong Kong with coupon ranging from 4.95% to 5.05%. This
352-477: A closer relationship with Intel, the maker of most server processors, through its acquisition of IBM's x86-based server business. On 1 October 2014, Lenovo closed its acquisition of IBM's server division, with the final price put at $ 2.1 billion. Lenovo said this acquisition came in at a price lower than the previously announced $ 2.3 billion partially because of a change in the value of IBM inventories. The deal has been already approved by Europe and China. Per Forbes,
440-524: A combined manufacturing and distribution centre near its American headquarters. Each device made in this facility is labelled with a red-white-and-blue sticker proclaiming " Whitsett, North Carolina ." In 2012, Lenovo produced a short run of special edition anniversary ThinkPads in Yonezawa, Yamagata , Japan, in partnership with NEC, as part of a larger goal to move manufacturing away from China and into Japan. In 2014, although sales rose 5.6 percent from
528-432: A common issue with a cracked plastic lid. The 180° hinges are typical, the 360° hinges are a Yoga line basic feature. Introduced in 2016 as a high-end display option for some models. Hard-drive protection for some ThinkPad models that still use the 2.5" drive bay; These systems use an accelerometer sensor to detect when a ThinkPad is falling and shut down the hard disk drive to prevent damage. The fingerprint reader
616-546: A company doing quality checks on computers. It also tried and failed to market a digital watch. In May 1988, Lenovo placed its first recruitment advertisement on the front page of the China Youth News . Such ads were quite rare in China at the time. Out of the 500 respondents, 280 were selected to take a written employment exam. 120 of these candidates were interviewed in person. Although interviewers initially only had
704-490: A final sale in 2011 completing their divestment. Mary Ma , Lenovo's chief financial officer from 1990 to 2007, was in charge of investor relations. Under her leadership, Lenovo successfully integrated Western-style accountability into its corporate culture. Lenovo's emphasis on transparency earned it a reputation for the best corporate governance among mainland Chinese firms. While Hong Kong-listed firms were only required to issue financial reports twice per year, Lenovo followed
792-694: A governmental research institute. Then known as Legend, the company developed numerous electronics before focusing on personal computers. Co-founder Liu Chuanzhi incorporated Legend in Hong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China. It listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994 and became the largest PC manufacturer in China and eventually in Asia; they were also domestic distributors for HP printers, Toshiba laptops, and others. After
880-717: A joint venture with Fujitsu and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ). In the joint venture, Fujitsu would sell Lenovo a 51% stake in Fujitsu Client Computing Limited . DBJ would acquire a 5% stake. In September 2018, Lenovo and NetApp announced about strategic partnership and joint venture in China. As part of strategic partnership Lenovo started two new lines of storage systems: DM-Series and DE-Series. Both storage systems using Lenovo hardware and NetApp software: DM-Series using ONTAP OS and DE-Series SANtricity OS. In 2018, Lenovo became
968-626: A lucrative contract with the Harvard Business School to provide the campus with notebook PCs. The task of creating a notebook was given to the Yamato Facility in Japan, headed by Arimasa Naitoh ( 内藤在正 , Naitō Arimasa , Vice President of Lenovo's PC and Smart Devices business unit) , a Japanese engineer and product designer who had joined IBM in the 1970s, now known as the "Father of ThinkPad". The name "ThinkPad"
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#17327871981941056-547: A new logo at Lenovo Tech World in Beijing, with the slogan "Innovation Never Stands Still" ( Chinese : 创新无止境 ). Lenovo's new logo, created by Saatchi, can be changed by its advertising agencies and sales partners, within restrictions, to fit the context. It has a lounging "e" and is surrounded by a box that can be changed to use a relevant scene, solid color, or photograph. Lenovo's Chief Marketing Officer David Roman said, "When we first started looking at it, it wasn't about just
1144-435: A team of engineers led by Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui . Initially specializing in televisions , the company migrated towards manufacturing and marketing computers. Liu Chuanzhi and his group of ten experienced engineers , teaming up with Danny Lui , officially founded Lenovo in Beijing on November 1, 1984, with 200,000 yuan . The Chinese government approved Lenovo's incorporation on the same day. Jia Xufu (贾续福), one of
1232-613: Is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics , personal computers , software, business solutions, and related services. Its global headquarters are in Beijing , and Morrisville, North Carolina , United States; it has research centers at these locations, elsewhere in China, in Stuttgart, Germany , and in Yamato, Japan . Lenovo originated as an offshot of
1320-548: Is a manufacturer of personal computers, smartphones, televisions, and wearable devices. Some of the company's earliest products included the KT8920 mainframe computer and a circuit board that allowed IBM-compatible personal computers to process Chinese characters. One of its first computers was the Tianxi ( 天禧 ), released in 1998 in the Chinese market. It became the best selling computer in Chinese history in 2000. Lenovo markets
1408-562: Is an LED light located at the top of the LCD screen which illuminates the keyboard from above. Some E, L, T, X, W (only W550s), and P (only P##s) series ThinkPads feature (for some 2013-2018 models) — internal secondary battery (as succession of secondary UltraBay battery) that support a hot-swapping of primary battery. The keyboard design was replaced by the Chiclet style keyboard (2012-current) in 2012. The chiclet-style keyboard does not support
1496-443: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arimasa Naitoh Lenovo lines (former/ current ): ThinkPad is a line of business-oriented laptop and tablet computers produced since 1992. The early models were designed, developed and marketed by International Business Machines (IBM) until it sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005; since 2007, all new ThinkPad models have been branded Lenovo instead and
1584-506: Is not expected to significantly affect earnings. More specifically, Stoneware was acquired to further Lenovo's efforts to improve and expand its cloud-computing services. For the two years prior to its acquisition, Stoneware partnered with Lenovo to sell its software. During this period Stoneware's sales doubled. Stoneware was founded in 2000. As of September 2012, Stoneware is based in Carmel, Indiana, and has 67 employees. Lenovo re-entered
1672-501: Is only the second sale of bonds in Lenovo's history. Financial commentators noted that Lenovo was paying a premium to list the bonds in yuan given relatively low costs for borrowing in US dollars. Lenovo said that its x86 servers will be available to all its channel partners. Lenovo plans to cut prices on x86 products in order to gain market share. This goes in alliance with IBM 's vision of
1760-683: Is the only officially supported operating system where installation of Windows and other operating systems requires putting the device into developer mode, as is the case with other Chromebooks. ThinkPads have been used heavily in space programs. NASA purchased more than 500 ThinkPad 750 laptops for flight qualification, software development, and crew training, and astronaut John Glenn used ThinkPad laptops on his spaceflight mission STS-95 in 1998. ThinkPad models used on Shuttle missions include: Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited , trading as Lenovo ( / l ə ˈ n oʊ v oʊ / lə- NOH -voh , Chinese : 联想 ; pinyin : Liánxiǎng ),
1848-588: The IdeaPad , Yoga , LOQ, and Legion consumer lines of notebooks, and the IdeaCentre , LOQ, Legion, and ThinkCentre lines of desktops. Lenovo is also part of a joint venture with NEC , named Lenovo NEC Holdings, that produces personal computers for the Japanese market. The company also operates Motorola Mobility which produced smartphones. Lenovo was founded in Beijing on 1 November 1984 as Legend by
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#17327871981941936-792: The Moto X , Moto G , Droid Turbo , and the future Motorola Mobility product roadmap, while Google retained the Advanced Technologies & Projects unit and all but 2,000 of the company's patents. Lenovo received royalty free licenses to all the patents retained by Google. Lenovo received approval from the European Union for its acquisition of Motorola in June 2014. The acquisition was completed on 30 October 2014. Motorola Mobility remained headquartered in Chicago, and continued to use
2024-463: The ThinkPad , IdeaPad , Yoga , Legion and Xiaoxin ( 小新 ; Chinese market only) lines of laptops, as well as the IdeaCentre and ThinkCentre lines of desktops. It expanded significantly in 2005 through its acquisition of IBM 's personal computer business, including its ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines. As of January 2013, shipments of THINK-branded computers have doubled since Lenovo's takeover of
2112-489: The surname Naitō . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naitō&oldid=1077841785 " Categories : Surnames Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with short description Short description
2200-520: The trackpad pointer had become more popular for laptops due to innovations by Synaptics so IBM introduced UltraNav as a complementary combination of TrackPoint and TouchPad designed by Dave Sawin, Hiroaki Yasuda, Fusanobo Nakamura, and Mitsuo Horiuchi to please all users. The "roll cage" is an internal frame, designed to minimize motherboard flex (current P series and T##p series) or magnesium composite case (all other hi-end models). The display modules lack magnesium frames, and some 2012-2016 models have
2288-468: The 30th anniversary of the ThinkPad brand. The appearance of the ThinkPad has remained very similar throughout the entire lifetime of the brand. Almost all models are solid black inside and out, with a boxy case design. Some newer Lenovo models incorporate more curved lines. Many ThinkPads utilize magnesium, carbon fiber reinforced plastic, or titanium in their chassis. The industrial design concept
2376-489: The Chinese manufacturer has continued to develop and sell ThinkPads to the present day. The ThinkPad line was first developed at the IBM Yamato Facility in Japan; they have a distinct black, boxy design, which originated in 1990 and is still used in some models. Most models also feature a red-colored trackpoint on the keyboard, which has become an iconic and distinctive design characteristic associated with
2464-637: The Hong Kong market in March 2000 and raised about US$ 212 million . It rebranded to the name Lenovo in 2003 and began making acquisitions to expand the company. Lenovo acquired IBM 's personal computer business in 2005, including the ThinkPad laptop and ThinkCentre desktop lines. Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division accelerated access to foreign markets while improving Lenovo's branding and technology. Lenovo paid US$ 1.25 billion for IBM's computer business and assumed an additional US$ 500 million of IBM's debt. This acquisition made Lenovo
2552-465: The IBM acquisition. We got the ThinkPad brand, IBM's more advanced PC manufacturing technology and the company's international resources, such as its global sales channels and operation teams. These three elements have shored up our sales revenue in the past several years." Although Lenovo acquired the right to use the IBM brand name for five years after its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business, it
2640-543: The LePhone. At the same time, LeGarden counted 2,774 individual developers and 542 developer companies as members. On January 27, 2011, Lenovo formed a joint venture to produce personal computers with Japanese electronics firm NEC . The companies said in a statement that they would establish a new company called Lenovo NEC Holdings, to be registered in the Netherlands. NEC received US$ 175 million in Lenovo stock. Lenovo
2728-552: The LenovoEMC brand, and designed products for small and medium-sized businesses that could not afford enterprise-class data storage. Lenovo has since retired all of the LenovoEMC products on their product page advising that the products are no longer available for purchase on lenovo.com. IBM sold its x86-based server lines, including System x and Blade Center , to Lenovo in 2014. Lenovo says it will gain access to more enterprise customers, improve its profit margins, and develop
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2816-512: The Motorola brand, but Liu Jun, president of Lenovo's mobile device business, became the head of the company. In April 2014, Lenovo purchased a portfolio of patents from NEC related to mobile technology. These included over 3,800 patent families in countries around the world. The purchase included standards-essential patents for 3G and LTE cellular technologies and other patents related to smartphones and tablets. In May 2015, Lenovo revealed
2904-599: The No. 2 provider of smartphones in the domestic Chinese market in 2012. However, with approximately 100 smartphone brands sold in China, this only equated to a 10.4% market share. In May 2012, Lenovo announced an investment of US$ 793 million in the construction of a mobile phone manufacturing and R&D facility in Wuhan , Hubei . In 2013, Lenovo created a joint venture with EMC named Iomega . The venture took over Iomega's business and rebranded all of Iomega's products under
2992-645: The R61 and T61 were released with SUSE Linux Enterprise as an option. This was short-lived, as Lenovo discontinued that practice in 2009. ThinkPad hardware continued to be certified for Linux. In 2020, Lenovo shifted into much heavier support of Linux when they announced the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, the P1 Gen 2, and the P53 would come with Fedora Linux as an option. This was the first time that Fedora Linux
3080-650: The ThinkLight for illumination, instead using a keyboard backlight. Some ThinkPad models during the intermission period between the classic IBM design and the Lenovo chiclet design could be outfitted with both the backlit chiclet style keyboard and the ThinkLight. The introduced in 2004 line of hi-end displays with wide view angles and optional high resolution (up to 15" 1600x1200 or (rarely) 2048x1536 pixels). Partially dropped in 2008 (after partial defunct of BOE-Hydis display supplier), and reintroduced as ordinary IPS screen option in 2013. Some ThinkPad laptops (such as
3168-627: The ThinkPad line, like drive protection, a TrackPoint or Trusted Platform Module chips. While few features remain unique to the series, several laptop technologies originated on ThinkPads: Earlier known as "IBM Access", later "ThinkVantage", the Lenovo Vantage is a suite of computer management applications. This software can give additional support for system management (backup, encrypting, system drivers installation and upgrade, system monitoring and others). Currently, some old features have been replaced by internal Windows 10/11 features. IBM
3256-543: The ThinkPad line. It has seen significant success in the business market while certain models target students and the education market. ThinkPad laptops have been used in outer space and for many years were the only laptops certified for use on the International Space Station (ISS). ThinkPads have also for several years been one of the preferred laptops used by the United Nations . IBM
3344-413: The ThinkPad played a key part in reversing IBM's fortunes. The first ThinkPads were very successful, collecting more than 300+ awards for design and quality. In 2005, Lenovo purchased the IBM personal computer business and the ThinkPad as a flagship brand along with it. Speaking about the purchase of IBM's personal computer division, Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi said, "We benefited in three ways from
3432-520: The TrueBlock branding for their privacy shutters. All ThinkPad models have a keyboard membrane and drain holes (L series, P series, E series, T series, X series, X1 series, and Z series models), and some have a solid rubber or plastic membrane (like L series, W series, X1 series and current T and X series), without draining holes. The first ThinkPad 700 was equipped with the signature TrackPoint red dot pointing stick invented by Ted Selker . By 2000
3520-613: The United States Department of Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was reportedly the last major hurdle for Lenovo, since the United States has the strictest policies. According to Timothy Prickett-Morgan from Enterprise Tech, the deal still awaits "approval of regulators in China, the European Commission , and Canada". After closing, Lenovo said that its goal
3608-510: The X230/X230t, T430s/T430 and T530/W530, all from 2012) block third-party batteries. Lenovo calls this feature "Battery Safeguard". It was first introduced on some models in May 2012. Laptops with this feature scan for security chips that only ThinkPad-branded batteries contain. Affected ThinkPads flash a message stating "Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached" when third-party batteries are used, and
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3696-459: The ability to build a new corporate culture. At the end of its first two years, Lenovo Group had met many of its original challenges, including integrating two disparate cultures in the newly formed company, maintaining the Think brand image for quality and innovation, and improving supply chain and manufacturing efficiencies. However, Lenovo had failed to meet a key objective of the merger: leveraging
3784-546: The acquisition would double its share of the German computer market, making it the third-largest vendor by sales (after Acer and Hewlett-Packard ). The deal, which closed in the third quarter of the same year, was claimed by The New York Times as "the first in which a Chinese company acquired a well-known German company." This acquisition will give Lenovo 14% of the German computer market. Gerd Brachmann, chairman of Medion, agreed to sell two-thirds of his 60 per cent stake in
3872-515: The acquisition, Lenovo announced that its subsequent acquisitions would be concentrated in software and services. In September 2012, Lenovo agreed to acquire the United States–based software company Stoneware, in its first software acquisition. The transaction was expected to close by the end of 2012; no financial details have been disclosed. Lenovo said that the company was acquired in order to gain access to new technology and that Stoneware
3960-827: The authority to hire 16 people, 58 were given offers. The new staff included 18 people with graduate degrees, 37 with undergraduate degrees, and three students with no university-level education. Yang Yuanqing , the current chairman and CEO of Lenovo, was among that group. Liu Chuanzhi received government permission to form a subsidiary in Hong Kong and to move there along with five other employees. Liu's father, already in Hong Kong along with Lui, furthered his son's ambitions through mentoring and facilitating loans. Liu moved to Hong Kong in 1988. To save money during this period, Liu and his co-workers walked instead of taking public transportation. To keep up appearances, they rented hotel rooms for meetings. In 1990, Lenovo started to manufacture and market computers using its own brand name. Some of
4048-403: The battery will not charge. The ThinkPad has shipped with Microsoft Windows from its inception until present day. Alongside IBM PC DOS , Windows 3.1x was the default operating system on the original ThinkPad 700. IBM and Microsoft's joint operating system, known as Operating System/2 (OS/2), although not as popular, was also made available as an option from the ThinkPad 700 in 1992, and
4136-681: The brand, with profit margins thought to be above 5%. Lenovo aggressively expanded the THINK brand away from traditional laptop computers in favor of tablets and hybrid devices such as the ThinkPad Tablet 2 , ThinkPad Yoga , ThinkPad 8 , ThinkPad Helix , and ThinkPad Twist ; the shift came as a response to the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the release of Windows 8 in October 2012. Lenovo achieved significant success with this high-value strategy and in 2013 controlled more than 40% of
4224-538: The closely-released A21m, T21 and T22 models, came preinstalled with Caldera OpenLinux . IBM shifted away from preinstalled Linux on the ThinkPad after 2002, but continued to support other distributions such as Red Hat Linux , SUSE Linux Enterprise , and Turbolinux by means of customer installations on A30, A30p, A31p models. This continued through the Lenovo transition with the T60p, until September 2007. The following year, ThinkPads began shipping with Linux again, when
4312-679: The combined strength of the two companies to grow volume and market share. In order to achieve success, Lenovo embraced diversification at multiple levels- business model, culture, and talent. By 2015, Lenovo grew into the world's number 1 PC maker, number 3 smartphone manufacturer and number 3 in the production of tablet computers. In March 2017, Lenovo announced it was partnering with Fort Lauderdale, Florida–based software storage virtualization company DataCore to add DataCore's parallel I/O -processing software to Lenovo's storage devices. The servers were reportedly designed to outperform Storage Area Network (SAN) SAN arrays. In 2017, Lenovo formed
4400-541: The company agreed upon at this meeting was the Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Technology Research Institute New Technology Development Company. The organizational structure of the company was established in 1985 after the Chinese New Year . It included technology, engineering, administrative, and office departments. The group first attempted to import televisions but failed. It rebuilt itself as
4488-490: The company hit $ 60 billion in annual revenues. On 8 October 2021, Lenovo withdrew its application to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange just days after it had been accepted by the exchange, citing the possibility of the validity of financial information in its prospectus lapsing as the reason. The price of the company's shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange dropped by over 17% following the news, which
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#17327871981944576-438: The company publicly announced its new English name, "Lenovo", with an advertising campaign including huge billboards and primetime television ads. Lenovo spent 18 million RMB on an eight-week television advertising campaign. The billboards showed the Lenovo logo against blue sky with a slogan that read, "Transcendence depends on how you think." By the end of 2003, Lenovo had spent a total of 200 million RMB on rebranding. Lenovo
4664-600: The company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it acquired IBM 's PC business including its ThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad. In 2013, Lenovo became the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales for the first time, a position it still holds as of 2024. Products manufactured by the company include desktop computers , laptops , tablet computers , smartphones , workstations , servers , supercomputers , data storage devices, IT management software, and smart televisions . Its best-known brands include its ThinkPad business line of notebooks,
4752-479: The company's early successes included the KT8920 mainframe computer. It also developed a circuit board that allowed IBM-compatible personal computers to process Chinese characters. Lenovo (known at the time as Legend) became publicly traded after a 1994 Hong Kong IPO that raised nearly US$ 30 million at HK$ 1.33 per share. Prior to the IPO, many analysts were optimistic about Lenovo. On its first day of trading,
4840-415: The company's international resources, such as its global sales channels and operation teams. These three elements have shored up our sales revenue in the past several years." The employees of the division, including those who developed ThinkPad laptops and Think Centre desktops, became employees of Lenovo. Despite Lenovo acquiring the "Think" brand from IBM, IBM still plays a key indirect, background role in
4928-492: The company's stock price hit a high of HK$ 2.07 and closed at HK$ 2.00 suggesting an initial under-valuing of the company. Proceeds from the offering were used to finance sales offices in Europe, North America and Australia, to expand and improve production and research and development, and to increase working capital. By 1996, Lenovo was the market leader in China and began selling its own laptop. By 1998 it held 43 per cent of
5016-485: The company. He will be paid in cash for 80 per cent of the shares and will receive 20 per cent in Lenovo stock. That would give him about one per cent of Lenovo. In September 2012, Lenovo agreed to acquire the Brazil -based electronics company Digibras, which sells products under the brand-name CCE, for a base price of R$ 300 million (US$ 148 million) in a combination of stock and cash. An additional payment of R$ 400 million
5104-621: The conference and both gave speeches on corporate governance. Lenovo sold its smartphone and tablet division in 2008 for US$ 100 million in order to focus on personal computers and then paid US$ 200 million to buy it back in November 2009. As of 2009 , the mobile division ranked third in terms of unit share in China's mobile handset market. Lenovo invested CN¥ 100 million in a fund dedicated to providing seed funding for mobile application development for its LeGarden online app store . As of 2010, LeGarden had more than 1,000 programs available for
5192-429: The design and production of the Think line of products. Today, IBM is responsible for overseeing servicing and repair centers, and is considered an authorized distributor and refurbisher of the Think line of products produced by Lenovo. IBM also acquired an 18.9% share of Lenovo in 2005 as part of Lenovo's purchase of IBM's personal computing division. In the years following the deal, IBM sold their stake in Lenovo, with
5280-466: The domestic computer market share in China, selling approximately one million computers. Lenovo released its Tianxi ( 天禧 ) computer in 1998. Designed to make it easy for inexperienced Chinese consumers to use computers and access the internet, one of its most important features was a button that instantly connected users to the internet and opened the Web browser. It was co-branded with China Telecom and it
5368-527: The founders of Lenovo, indicated that the first meeting in preparation for starting the company was held on October 17 the same year. Eleven people, the entirety of the initial staff, attended. Each of the founders was a member of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The 200,000 yuan used as start-up capital was approved by Zeng Maochao (曾茂朝). The name for
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#17327871981945456-515: The future around cloud technologies and their own POWER processor architecture. Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's businesses is arguably one of the greatest case studies on merging massive international enterprises. Though this acquisition in 2005 ultimately resulted in success, the integration of the businesses had a difficult and challenging beginning. Lenovo had employees from different cultures, different backgrounds, and different languages. These differences caused misunderstandings, hampering trust and
5544-422: The international norm of issuing quarterly reports. Lenovo created an audit committee and a compensation committee with non-management directors. The company started roadshows twice per year to meet institutional investors. Ma organized the first-ever investor relations conference held in mainland China. The conference was held in Beijing in 2002 and televised on China Central Television (CCTV). Liu and Ma co-hosted
5632-508: The previous year, Lenovo lost its position as the top commercial notebook maker. However, the company celebrated a milestone in 2015 with the shipment of the 100 millionth unit of its ThinkPad line. In 2017, Lenovo launched a ThinkPad model to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad brand. It is based on the T470 and uses the similar keyboard to the 700C. In 2022, Lenovo launched the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 Special Edition to celebrate
5720-419: The product's strengths and weaknesses, including loaning a machine to archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian city of Leontopolis . The resulting report documented the ThinkPad's excellent performance under difficult conditions; "The ThinkPad is an impressive machine, rugged enough to be used without special care in the worst conditions Egypt has to offer." The positive critical and commercial reception of
5808-459: The same observation that it offers a 'surprise' when opened. Since 1992, the ThinkPad design has been regularly updated, developed and refined over the years by Sapper and the respective teams at IBM and later Lenovo. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ThinkPad's introduction, David Hill authored and designed a commemorative book about ThinkPad design titled ThinkPad Design: Spirit & Essence . Several unique features have appeared in
5896-411: The smartphone market in 2012 and quickly became the largest vendor of smartphones in mainland China. Entry into the smartphone market was paired with a change of strategy from "the one-size-fits-all" to a diverse portfolio of devices. These changes were driven by the popularity of Apple's iPhone and Lenovo's desire to increase its market share in mainland China. Lenovo surpassed Apple Inc. to become
5984-504: The third-largest computer maker worldwide by volume. Lenovo's purchase of the Think line from IBM also led to the creation of the IBM/Lenovo partnership, which works together in the creation of Think-line of products sold by Lenovo. On the purchase of IBM's personal computer division, Chuanzhi said in 2012: "We benefited in three ways from the IBM acquisition. We got the ThinkPad brand, IBM's more advanced PC manufacturing technology and
6072-632: The world's largest provider for the TOP500 supercomputers . In 2020, Lenovo became a preferred data center innovation provider for DreamWorks Animation starting with Trolls World Tour . On 12 January 2021, Lenovo filed an application to issue Chinese depositary receipts, representing newly issued ordinary shares, and to list them on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange . In April 2021, Lenovo
6160-482: Was a product of IBM's corporate history and culture. Thomas J. Watson Sr. first introduced "Think" as an IBM slogan in the 1920s. With every minicomputer and mainframe IBM installed (almost all were leased – not sold), a plastic sign with the text "Think" printed on an aluminum plate was placed atop the operator's console. For decades, IBM had also distributed small notepads with the word "THINK" emblazoned on their cover to customers and employees. The name "ThinkPad"
6248-526: Was a tablet computer. This machine was the first product produced under IBM's new "differentiated product personality" strategy, a collaboration between Richard Sapper and Tom Hardy , head of the corporate IBM Design Program. Development of the 700C also involved a close working relationship between Sapper and Kazuhiko Yamazaki, lead notebook designer at IBM's Yamato Design Center in Japan and liaison between Sapper and Yamato engineering. This 1990–1992 "pre-Internet" collaboration between Italy and Japan
6336-439: Was bundled with one year of Internet service. The Tianxi was released in 1998. It was the result of two years of research and development. It had a pastel-colored, shell-shaped case and a seven-port USB hub under its screen. As of 2000, the Tianxi was the best-selling computer in Chinese history. It sold more than 1,000,000 units in 2000 alone. To fund its continued growth, Lenovo issued a secondary offering of 50 million shares on
6424-438: Was created in 1990 by Italy-based designer Richard Sapper , a corporate design consultant of IBM and, since 2005, Lenovo. The design was based on the concept of a traditional Japanese bento lunchbox, which revealed its nature only after being opened. According to later interviews with Sapper, he also characterized the simple ThinkPad form to be as elementary as a simple, black cigar box and with similar proportions, with
6512-403: Was facilitated by a special Sony digital communications system that transmitted high-res images over telephone lines. This system was established in several key global Design Centers by Hardy so IBM designers could visually communicate more effectively and interact directly with Sapper for advice on their projects. For his innovative design management leadership during ThinkPad development, Hardy
6600-570: Was first used to refer to a layout of Chinese typewriters in the 1950s organized into groups of common words and phrases rather than the standard dictionary layout. For the first 20 years of its existence, the company's English name was "Legend". In 2002, Yang Yuanqing decided to abandon the Legend English name to expand beyond the Chinese home market. "Legend" was already in use worldwide by many businesses, making it impossible to register in many jurisdictions outside China. In April 2003,
6688-512: Was introduced as an option by IBM in 2004. ThinkPads were one of the first laptops to include this feature. The Mobile broadband support is a common feature for most the actual ThinkPad models after 2006; the support of 3x3 MIMO is a common feature for most of high-end models. Some additional features (dock stations, UltraBay, accessories support) were listed in Accessories section. External keyboard light, replaced by internal backlight;
6776-408: Was its biggest intraday decline in over a decade. "Lenovo" is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", Latin ablative for "new". The Chinese name ( simplified Chinese : 联想 ; traditional Chinese : 聯想 ; pinyin : Liánxiǎng ) means "association" (as in "association of ideas"), "associative thinking", or "connected thinking". It also implies creativity. "Lianxiang"
6864-485: Was made available as a preinstalled option from a major hardware vendor. Following that, Lenovo then began making Ubuntu available as a preinstalled option across nearly thirty different notebook and desktop models, and Fedora Linux on all of its P series lineup. A small number of ThinkPads, such as the C14, are preinstalled with Google's ChromeOS , and are essentially ThinkPad-branded Chromebooks. On these devices, ChromeOS
6952-484: Was made dependent upon performance benchmarks. Prior to its acquisition of CCE, Lenovo already established a $ 30 million factory in Brazil, but Lenovo's management had felt that they needed a local partner to maximize regional growth. Lenovo cited their desire to take advantage of increased sales due to the 2014 World Cup that would be hosted by Brazil and the 2016 Summer Olympics and CCE's reputation for quality. Following
7040-604: Was named "innovator of the Year 1992" by PC Magazine. The first ThinkPad tablet, a PenPoint -based device formally known as the IBM ThinkPad 2521, was positioned as a developer's release. The ThinkPad tablet became available for purchase by the general public, as the 700T, in October of the same year. IBM marketed the ThinkPad creatively, through methods such as early customer pilot programs, numerous pre-launch announcements, and an extensive loaner program designed to showcase
7128-603: Was officially supported until the T43 in 2005. The ThinkPad Power series line, sold from 1994 through 1998, was available with AIX and Solaris operating systems. IBM took its first steps toward ThinkPads with an alternative operating system, when they quietly certified the 390 model for SUSE Linux in November 1998. The company released its first Linux-based unit with the ThinkPad A20m in July 2000. This model, along with
7216-498: Was only used for three years. In 2012 Lenovo manufactured and markets Think-branded products while IBM was mostly responsible for overseeing servicing and repairs for them. At that time both IBM and Lenovo played a key role in the design of their "Think" branded products. The majority of ThinkPad computers since the 2005 acquisition of the brand by Lenovo have been made in Mexico, Slovakia, India and China. Lenovo employs ~300 people at
7304-543: Was reorganized into three divisions: The Intelligent Devices Group for PCs, Smartphones, Smart Collaboration products, Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions and Internet of Things devices, the Infrastructure Solutions Group (formally known as Data Center Group) for smart infrastructure solutions, and the Solutions and Services Group focused on services and industry-specific products. That year,
7392-422: Was suggested by IBM employee Denny Wainwright, who had one such notepad in his pocket. The name was opposed by the IBM corporate naming committee as all the names for IBM computers were numeric at that time, but "ThinkPad" was kept due to praise from journalists and the public. In April 1992, IBM announced the first ThinkPad models, the 300, 700 and 700C all released on October 5, 1992. The 700T released in 1993
7480-414: Was the first company that supported a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Modern ThinkPads still have this feature. ThinkShutter is the branding of a webcam privacy shutter present in some ThinkPad notebook computers . It is a simple mechanical sliding cover that allows the user to obstruct the webcam's view. Some add-on webcams and other laptop brands provide a similar feature. IdeaPad notebooks carry
7568-625: Was the last of the major personal computer manufacturers to enter the notebook market, launching the PS/2 Note in 1992; its earlier laptop models did not gain significant attention. Building on the PS/2 Note, the ThinkPad was developed to compete with Compaq in the United States, whose LTE was the first commercially successful notebook PC; as well as Apple Computer 's highly successful PowerBook , and Toshiba in Japan, whose Dynabook series of notebooks were similarly successful. IBM signed
7656-638: Was to become the world's largest maker of servers. Lenovo also announced plans to start integrating IBM's workforce. The acquisition added about 6,500 new employees to Lenovo. Lenovo said that it has no immediate intent to cut jobs. Lenovo said that positions in research and development and customer-facing roles such as marketing would be "100% protected", but expected "rationalization" of its supply chain and procurement. On 29 January 2014, Google announced it would sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for US$ 2.91 billion. As of February 2014, Google owned about 5.94% of Lenovo's stock. The deal included smartphone lines like
7744-447: Was to own a 51% stake in the joint venture, while NEC would have 49%. Lenovo has a five-year option to expand its stake in the joint venture. This joint venture was intended to boost Lenovo's worldwide sales by expanding its presence in Japan, a key market for personal computers. NEC spun off its personal computer business into the joint venture. As of 2010, NEC controlled about 20% of Japan's market for personal computers while Lenovo had
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