Taipei Times | February 9, 2011
NEC Corp is in talks with Lenovo Group Ltd to partner on server sales in China, a move that would extend the joint venture announced last month between the two PC makers.
“There’s a complementary relationship,” Masato Yamamoto, head of NEC’s platform business, said at a briefing in Tokyo yesterday.
An agreement between the two companies on servers would give NEC better access to the Chinese market, while helping expand Lenovo’s product lineup, Yamamoto said, declining to specify when an agreement might be reached.
NEC, Japan’s largest maker of PCs and servers, is seeking to reduce its reliance on the domestic market, which accounts for 84 percent of the company’s sales. A deal would help Lenovo, which is also introducing tablet computers and smartphones, beef up its server business and diversify products.
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