Global technology major Lenovo is set to turn India into a major export hub for its infrastructure business by designing and manufacturing artificial intelligence servers in the country for global markets.
Speaking to PTI at CES 2026, Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo, said the company will leverage its Bengaluru development lab to design AI server systems, which will then be manufactured at its Pondicherry facility for domestic use and exports.
“We are going to be designing a lot of our one- and two-socket systems... think of those as the workhorses of AI in the future. We are going to be designing them in India. Once we have designed and engineered them, we are going to be manufacturing them there as well. It is going to be an important part of Lenovo's value chain,” he said.
Lenovo India is among the firms selected under the ₹17,000-crore IT hardware production-linked incentive scheme, reinforcing its commitment to local manufacturing.
Highlighting the relevance for MSMEs, he advocated a hybrid AI model where heavy model training can be outsourced to cloud or GPU-as-a-service providers, while inferencing runs on lighter hardware. “It makes it very easy for them (MSMEs) to adopt real, powerful AI... It is not power-intensive. It is not expensive,” he noted.
Tease also praised India’s push for “Sovereign AI,” the growing GPU-as-a-service ecosystem, and emphasized liquid cooling technologies to reduce data centre energy costs. By 2030, he said, talent readiness will be the real differentiator in the global AI race.
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