Lenovo is broadening its commitment to Brazil with a new $100 million research and development lab that eventually will employ 100 people.
The world’s top PC manufacturer says the lab will focus on enterprise software development. Lenovo says the facility will be the first with this focus for the company.
Its mission is to develop “innovative, high-value software solutions and services to global markets.”
Projects for the Lenovo-EMC joint venture in servers also will be developed at the facility.
Lenovo is now second in PC sales in Brazil with a market share of nearly 10 percent. It trails only Brazil-based Positivo, which Lenovo at one time considered buying.
The new lab news comes 16 months after Lenovo said it would build a $30 million manufacturing and distribution facility in Brazil. It currently employs 700 people an d eventually will have 2,000 workers.
The R&D lab will be built in Sao Paulo.
“This is an exciting move for Lenovo as it affords us the opportunity to expand our global enterprise product group footprint, while investing heavily in research and development,” said Roy Guillen, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Product Group, for Lenovo. “Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the latest addition to our diverse global footprint of enterprise design centers located in the United States, Taiwan and China. Lenovo is committed to building the premier R&D organization in Enterprise and our strategy to invest in local talent pools is fundamental to this commitment and is the right approach to improve innovation.”
Lenovo is receiving an unspecified amount of “support” from local government.
Lenovo operates its global executive headquarters in Morrisville and operates a manufacturing-distribution center in the Triad.
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