Chinese origin firm Lenovo to make AI servers in India

Lenovo India are all set to start manufacturing GPU and Enterprise AI servers at its Puducherry facility from next year. The Chinese origin multinational technology firm’s annual production target is 50,000 AI servers, for the domestic market as well as export, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region.

The company also announced its fourth-largest research and development (R&D) centre in Bengaluru.

The firm’s Puducherry manufacturing unit has been functional since 2005 and the company will now make advanced 8-way GPU architecture at the facility. It is estimated that more than 60 per cent of the products will be exported across countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Lenovo’s other big project in India right now is its Bengaluru R&D unit. The facility will be used for research and development relevant for the basic stages of a product’s life cycle — design, testing, security, product assurance and software development.

Lenovo India was one of the firms selected for the government’s IT hardware production-linked incentive scheme, worth Rs 17,000 crore. Managing director Lenovo India managing director Shailendra Katyal, however, said the company “had a long commitment to make in India even before the production linked incentive scheme started”, adding that they had “started manufacturing in India about two decades ago”.

The company, which is widely known for its laptops and personal computers, has been designing Android phones in India. By next year, Lenovo are expected to be in a position to make nearly 12 million devices in India every year. These would include Motorola smartphones, servers and computers.