Lenovo Group Limited, formerly known as Legend Group Ltd and New Technology Developer Incorporated , is the largest personal computer manufacturer in the People's Republic of China, the largest in Asia-Pacific as of 2006, and as of 2005 was the third largest in the world (ninth before purchase of IBM's PC Division). The original company was founded in 1984 by a group of eleven engineers headed by Liu Chuanzhi in Beijing, but the listed holding company was incorporated in 1988 in Hong Kong, now a Special Administrative Region of China. After temporarily moving to Purchase, New York, USA, its headquarters are in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, the home of IBM's former ThinkPad group.
"Lenovo" is a portmanteau word formed of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", pseudo-Latin for "new."
Along with desktop and laptop computers, Lenovo sells servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing. Hoping to reach the many Chinese not yet online, Lenovo also offers Internet access through its FM365.com portal.
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