China-based PC vendor Lenovo has started development on a combined operational base for R&D, production and marketing on a 13.3-hectare site with a total floor space of 100,000 square meters (1.076 million square foot) in Chengdu City, western China, with the base to serve markets in western China, South and Central Asia and parts of Europe, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based Compal Electronics and Wistron, Lenovo's two main ODMs for notebooks and all-in-one PCs, will invest US$100 million and US$180 million, respectively, to set up factories nearby and will kick off production in the second half of 2011, the sources indicated.

Lenovo expects its new production site's capacity for PCs reach a maximum of 10 million units in the future and the company is set to establish an R&D center with about 1,000 technicians.

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