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Confusion Over Lenovo's Rumored R&D Center in Taiwan
December 28, 2009 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Steve Chuang, China Economic News Service (CENS), among other Asia-based news services, have reported that China-based notebook PCs maker Lenovo will set up an R&D center in Taiwan and increase its procurements from Taiwanese suppliers in the future, citing Ma Jianrong, the brand's director of government affairs division. However, these stories are refuted by other news agencies, such as Bloomberg. Lenovo's executive director of external communications noted that it is not the company's practice to speculate on rumors.
Ma reportedly said that Taiwan is one of Lenovo's most important production arms in the world, and the brand spends an annual average of US$4 billion to 5 billion on procuring various PCs and related peripherals made on the island in recent years, with a number of local companies, like Wistron Corp., the third-largest notebook PC maker in the world, on its supplier list. To further take advantage of Taiwanese PC makers' R&D capability, the brand is going to establish an R&D center in Taiwan, CENS reported. However, "Lenovo's Ma Jianrong did not discuss specific R&D plans," according to Geraldine Kan, a Singapore-based spokeswoman for Lenovo cited in Bloomberg.
Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, see www.lenovo.com.
Editor's note: SMT originally published that Geraldine Kan's statements were made to The China Post. While these statements were published by China Post, they originate from Bloomberg. We regret the error.