- Lenovo improves buyer expertise with new Innovation Centre on web site at manufacturing web site in Budapest
- New capabilities and capability allows world clients to check proof of idea (POC) options on the newest expertise with unmatched lead occasions
- Excessive Efficiency Computing options can be examined on web site with world main liquid cooling expertise amenities
Budapest, Hungary – October 19, 2023: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) in the present day introduced the Europe based mostly Innovation Centre specializing in HPC and AI, will now function with enhanced buyer expertise from the in-house manufacturing facility in Budapest.
Working the brand new Innovation Heart operations from the Budapest manufacturing unit with onsite stock inventory, permits Lenovo clients to entry essentially the most superior energy and cooling infrastructure options and newest technology expertise inside the provide chain. This entry ensures that workloads are examined on correct representations of finish bought options, enabling clients to know with certainty the Lenovo resolution put in will carry out efficiently for the supposed workload.
The placement of Lenovo’s new Innovation Centre will present:
- Elevated capability to host as much as 50% extra buyer POC’s a yr
- Entry to the newest expertise for buyer POC’s to be constructed with considerably lowered lead time
- On web site amenities for potential and present clients to see stay testing of POC’s and the manufacturing of their closing options in home
- Lenovo’s first liquid cooling testing and demonstration facility inside Europe
Per Overgaard, CTO, Infrastructure Options Group EMEA mentioned “Lenovo leads with a transparent dedication to our clients all through their shopping for journey. This Innovation Centre facilitates a collaborative method to infrastructure resolution constructing, and now our clients can take a look at their workloads extra precisely, on the newest expertise, and guarantee their resolution is exactly the configuration required.”
Innovation Centre Worth and Output
Lenovo Innovation Facilities enable potential clients to pilot new information heart options in real-time earlier than making a purchase order. The brand new facility gives the chance for patrons to check joint options constructed with companions together with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.
Digital, and now in particular person, entry to POC’s permits clients to check workloads in datacenter environments with full transparency, and the power to regulate configurations that ship higher worth.
Lenovo’s European clients profit from figuring out that the datacenter infrastructure examined within the Innovation Heart, and shipped from Budapest come from a safe and steady provide chain, and contribute to the European economic system.
Sustainability
Prospects are prioritizing sustainability all through their shopping for journey, and Lenovo’s dedication to achieve net-zero greenhouse gasoline emissions by FY2049/50 all operations on web site in our manufacturing amenities.
Manufacturing in area eliminates the necessity for patrons to incur long-distance transport fees and wait occasions, however the shorter transport distances additionally imply the CO2 emissions generated are additionally lowered.
The European manufacturing facility itself was constructed from the bottom up with sustainability in thoughts, and since opening has elevated the constructing heating isolation, accomplished set up of a lighting sensor programs, and optimized air compressor waste warmth utilization. The second section of photo voltaic panel set up is now underway and can allow extra operations to be run with a low-impact on the atmosphere sooner or later.
Onsite, clients testing POC’s within the Innovation Centre can even be capable of see the actual time vitality and water consumption information throughout the power on the newly unveiled Environmental, Social and Governance wall (pictured under).
Szabolcs Zolyomi, Manufacturing facility Website Chief at Lenovo, commented “Over 200 present and potential clients have visited our amenities in Budapest since opening simply over a yr in the past, and now with the addition of the brand new Innovation Centre we look ahead to welcoming many extra from the testing section to the manufacturing course of. We have interaction with our clients on a human degree and know they care about the place their infrastructure comes from, the way it’s made, and the affect every take a look at, buy, and cargo have on the atmosphere. We’re centered on enabling deeper collaboration, transparency and understanding between Lenovo and our clients, and now we are able to supply the advantages from our ongoing sustainability efforts on web site too.”
