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Lenovo has announced it’s adding new research facilities in Europe and the Middle East, as it looks to fuel its AI growth.
The hardware vendor said that it will launch three new R&D facilities in total, with centres in London and Edinburgh opening their doors first. Lenovo said it chose the two cities due to their “vibrant tech sectors and rapidly expanding AI ecosystems”.
The third facility, expected to go live later this year, will be in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Earlier this year, Lenovo announced a partnership with the country’s human resources development fund and its Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources to set up a talent development programme.
The programme will see 100 Saudi graduates train at Lenovo’s facilities in the kingdom to learn supply chain skills at a new manufacturing hub set to open in Riyadh. The facility will build Lenovo laptops, desktops and servers and employ 15,000 staff.
Together, the three facilities will make up the Lenovo AI Technology Centre, the company said, and “will focus on the real-world deployment of foundation models, the evolution of agentic AI, and the orchestration of intelligent systems”. The facilities will be led by Lenovo research scientist Anwar Ghuloum, who also spearheads the company’s agentic AI development work.
The three new centres will mean the company now has over 20 R&D facilities in EMEA. The expansion follows the recent launch of Lenovo’s Digital Trust Lab in Israel’s biggest city, Tel Aviv, which is working on “security, privacy and trust” for its artificial intelligence products.
According to researchers Gartner, worldwide PC shipments topped 70 million in the fourth quarter of 2025. Lenovo remains the biggest PC seller globally, shifting over 20 million units in the quarter and increasing its market share year on year to reach 27 per cent.
Lenovo’s latest set of financial results, for the third quarter of the 2026 financial year, showed record revenue for the company – over $22 billion, an increase of 18% compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Lenovo attributed the growth to the continuing interest in AI, which the company says accounted for around a third of its total revenue for the quarter, up 72% compared to the same period a year ago.
