Recently, at the LEAP conference in Riyadh, a laptop was particularly eye-catching under the spotlight - this is the first Lenovo PC labeled as "Made in Saudi Arabia". From groundbreaking in February 2025 to its official debut, Lenovo's manufacturing base in the Saudi Integrated Logistics Special Zone has turned drawings into reality in just one and a half years. This 200000 square meter factory has not only changed Saudi Arabia's electronic manufacturing landscape, but also become a landmark footnote in the restructuring of the global technology supply chain.

Saudi Arabia's first domestic PC goes offline

One of the first batch of offline products from Lenovo's Riyadh manufacturing base has been unveiled. The base will produce laptops, desktop computers, Motorola smartphones, and servers in the future, becoming Lenovo's world's first manufacturing base capable of producing a full range of products. The factory plans to start large-scale production of some products by the end of 2026, with an expected annual output of millions of devices. Saudi Arabia is accelerating the process of economic diversification and local industrialization by introducing international technology manufacturing leaders.

Supply chain resilience becomes a new competitive chip

Lenovo has over 30 manufacturing bases in 11 global markets, with approximately half of them being its own factories. Dongwu Securities pointed out that its own factories give Lenovo higher autonomy in production pace, quality control, and capacity allocation, reducing the impact of external OEM queues and cross regional logistics on delivery. JPMorgan Chase has determined that the visibility of GPU server demand has extended to 2027, and supply constraints are becoming a key variable in the industry - the supply chain itself is becoming a part of growth capacity. In the second quarter of 2026, Lenovo's revenue from PC and smart devices reached a new high of 98.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of nearly 30%; ISG's infrastructure solution business revenue increased by 98% year-on-year, and the operating profit margin rose to 9.1%. Keywords: Middle East news and information, digital industry, international

End to end mode drives global layout

Lenovo has entered the top five of Gartner's global supply chain 25 for the first time this year, continuing to rank first in the Asia Pacific region. Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing stated that Lenovo's advantage primarily comes from its end-to-end business model - retaining complete capabilities from research and development, procurement to production and manufacturing. This not only enables cost control, but also enables faster transmission of backend supply and cost changes to the frontend market. From tariff shocks to geopolitics, from the outbreak of AI infrastructure to the shortage of critical components, Lenovo is weaving a safety net to cope with uncertainty through a global manufacturing network.Editor/Gao Xue