Lenovo Opens New Global Innovation Centre in Budapest

Lenovo announced the Europe-based Innovation Centre specializing in HPC and AI, will now operate with enhanced customer experience from the in-house manufacturing facility in Budapest. Running the Innovation Center operations from the Budapest factory with onsite inventory stock, allows Lenovo customers to access the most advanced power and cooling infrastructure solutions and latest generation technology within the supply chain.

This access ensures that workloads are tested on accurate representations of end-purchased solutions, enabling customers to know with certainty the Lenovo solution installed will perform successfully for the intended workload. The Innovation Centre will provide increased capacity to host up to 50% more customer POCs a year, access to the latest technology for customer POCs to be built with significantly reduced lead time, on-site facilities for potential and existing customers to see live testing of POC’s and the manufacturing of their final solutions in house, and Lenovo’s first liquid cooling testing and demonstration facility within Europe.

“Lenovo leads with a clear commitment to our customers throughout their buying journey. This Innovation Centre facilitates a collaborative approach to infrastructure solution building, and now our customers can test their workloads more accurately, on the latest technology, and ensure their solution is precisely the configuration required,” said Per Overgaard, CTO of Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo EMEA.

Lenovo Innovation Centers allow potential customers to pilot new data center solutions in real time before making a purchase. The new facility provides the opportunity for customers to test joint solutions built with partners including Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. Virtual, and now in-person, access to POCs allows customers to test workloads in data center environments with full transparency, and the ability to adjust configurations that deliver better value. Lenovo’s European customers benefit from knowing that the data center infrastructure tested in the Innovation Center, and shipped from Budapest comes from a secure and stable supply chain, and contributes to the European economy.