According to EETimes, Lenovo will enter the field of chip design, the main focus is the smartphone and tablet chip design.
There is a small team of 10 people who are working on integrated circuit design in Lenovo in the past 10 years, Till the middle of this year, Lenovo intends to expand the team to 100 engineers. Lenovo may recruit 40 engineers in Shenzhen and 60 engineers in Beijing.
Despite Lenovo has much freedom in the choice of application processors, but because it involves a competitive relationship, It's difficult for Lenovo to get the latest version of the processor. For example, Samsung refused to provide the latest Exynos processor to Lenovo. According to data from Strategy Analytics, Lenovo's share in the smartphone market in China has reached 13.2% last year, following 17.7% of Samsung.
Therefore, in the long term, Lenovo apparently hopes to grasp the fate of their own smart phone business, but in the short term, it can enhance the bargaining advantage when negotiating with other semiconductor manufacturer involved in the field of chip processor.
To achieve this vision, the Lenovo management team has done some adjustments, including announcing the hire of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as "observers" of the Board and employing the co-founder of ARM Tudor Brown as non-executive Director.
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