Lenovo takes the route of "trade-industry-technology". In the early days, Lenovo mainly engaged in large-scale trade, seized the market and made profits, so Lenovo really didn't have core technology. However, in recent years, Lenovo has actually invested after occupying the top spot in the PC industry. For example, Lenovo has applied for 766 core patents in the 5G field; Among the supercomputers with the strongest floating-point computing performance in the world, Lenovo made 173 sets, ranking first in the total number of the top 500 supercomputers in the world for four consecutive times. Lenovo is also the world's largest supercomputer solution provider, with the strongest supercomputer delivered by Lenovo in 10 countries around the world.
Therefore, Lenovo cannot be said to be useless. In 20 19, Lenovo's total R&D expenditure reached13.3 billion USD, accounting for 2.6% of 20 19 revenue. Although it is not as good as Huawei, it is still acceptable in China, ranking 18, so Lenovo can be called an assembly plant.
In fact, in the past ten years, Lenovo's reputation is still good. When I was in college, many people would buy a Lenovo computer. Especially when Lenovo acquired IBM, many people applauded it. Lenovo's reputation is mainly corrupted in recent years. On the one hand, it gives foreign preferential treatment, such as the same configuration, and the foreign price is lower than the domestic price. For example, in the 5G vote, it supported Qualcomm and opposed Huawei. On the other hand, on the basis of brilliant remarks made by its leaders, for example, when asked about the "Huawei incident", Lenovo CEO Yang made two brilliant speeches: First, he said that Lenovo is a multinational company that originated in China, and has never had any security problems, and has always abided by local laws and regulations. At the same time, it is also a very transparent and diversified multinational company, and does not think there is any reason to become a target. There is another paragraph: globalization is an inevitable trend, and a company doesn't have to do everything, so Lenovo doesn't intend to make operating systems and chips, but will do its part to provide users with the best products.
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Huawei incident let us know that mastering the core technology is the key, but Lenovo's current leaders obviously did not focus on this. A series of wrong decisions and brilliant remarks by leaders are the most critical factors for Lenovo to be abandoned by the people.