Following its acquisition of IBM's x86 server business, Lenovo is looking to establish partnerships with Taiwan-based server players such as Quanta Computer, Mitac International and Wistron for assistance from the hardware design segment, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

China Internet service players Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba are planning to develop an open structure that mainly focuses on satisfying China players' demand and Taiwan-based server players will have a chance to join the project and expand their cooperation with China Internet service players, the sources noted.

The project's new 2.0 architecture will be released in September and Lenovo is one of the major hardware suppliers of the project. Currently, 30% of Lenovo's server shipments are datacenter servers with 18% supplied to the project. In the future, Lenovo is looking to bring datacenter server's proportion to 50%.

The sources pointed out that Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing has reportedly visited Taiwan recently and had a meeting with Quanta chairman Barry Lam to discuss cooperation for cloud computing servers.

However, Taiwan server players declined to comment on the report.

By: DocMemory
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