Lenovo

Lenovo Group Ltd.
	Lenovo corporate campus in Beijing, China
Native name	联想集团有限公司
Type	Public
Industry	Computer hardware; Electronics
Founded	1984 (Beijing, China)
Founder	Liu Chuanzhi
Headquarters	Haidian District, Beijing, China; Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yang Yuanqing; (Chairman and CEO)

Lenovo is a Chinese computer company that makes computers, laptops, tablets, and other devices.

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.^[1]^[2]

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".^[3]

Lenovo Media

In 1984, Lenovo was founded in Beijing by a team of 4 guards in a shack from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Liu Chuanzhi.
The ThinkPad logo, as seen on the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e laptop computer. Lenovo purchased the ThinkPad line from IBM in 2005.
The Lenovo Vibe X smartphone at a launch event, 2014
The signing ceremony for the LenovoEMC joint venture, with Yang Yuanqing standing in the middle (fifth from the left) in the back row
Moto X (1st generation)
Lenovo advertisement at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2012
A Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Series Ultrabook with extensive use of lightweight and durable carbon fibre technology
A Lenovo IdeaPad U350 at a launch event in Japan, 2009
The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 from front and back
A Lenovo A30 TV set-top box