Lenovo facts for kids
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Headquarters in Haidian District, Beijing
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Native name
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联想集团有限公司
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Romanized name
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Liánxiǎng Jítuán Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī |
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| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1 November 1984 (as Legend 联想) Beijing |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Yang Yuanqing (Chairman & CEO) |
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| Revenue |  US$71.618 billion (2022) |
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Operating income
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US$3.081 billion (2022) |
| US$2.145 billion (2022) |
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| Total assets | US$44.51 billion (2022) |
| Total equity | US$5.395 billion (2022) |
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~75,000 (2022) |
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Lenovo Group Limited, doing business as Lenovo ( lə-NOH-voh, Chinese: 联想; pinyin: Liánxiǎng), is a Chinese company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, business solutions, and related services. 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 laptop computers (acquired from IBM), the IdeaPad, Yoga, and Legion consumer lines of laptop computers, and the IdeaCentre and ThinkCentre lines of desktop computers. As of 2021[update] Lenovo is the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales.
Lenovo has operations in over 60 countries and sells its products in around 180+ countries. It was incorporated in Hong Kong, with global headquarters in Beijing, and Morrisville, North Carolina, United States.
Lenovo was founded in Beijing in 1984 as Legend and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988. Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business in 2005 and agreed to acquire its Intel-based server business in 2014. In January 2014, Lenovo agreed to acquire the mobile phone handset maker Motorola Mobility from Google, and in October 2014 the deal was finalized.
Name
"Lenovo" is a portmanteau word 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 "word association") or "connected thinking".
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In 1984, Lenovo was founded in Beijing by a team of eleven engineers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Liu Chuanzhi.
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The ThinkPad logo, as seen on the ThinkPad X100e laptop computer. Lenovo purchased the ThinkPad line from IBM in 2005.
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The Lenovo Vibe X smartphone at a launch event, 2014
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The signing ceremony for the LenovoEMC joint venture, with Yang Yuanqing standing in the middle (fifth from the left) in the back row
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Motorola Moto X
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Lenovo advertisement at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2012
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A Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook with extensive use of lightweight and durable carbon fiber technology
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A Lenovo IdeaPad U350 at a launch event in Japan, 2009
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The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 from front and back
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A Lenovo A30 TV set-top box
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The Lenovo Smartwatch on display at the 2015 Mobile World Congress
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Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
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Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo's Chairman and CEO
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The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Torch was designed by Lenovo
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See also
In Spanish: Lenovo para niños
