Thinkpad has already been acquired by Lenovo, and now Thinkpad is a brand of Lenovo Group.

Lenovo acquired IBM's PC business, which is the permanent use rights of personal computers, including the ThinkPad brand of notebooks.

Because the high-end business machine market is too small, IBM now mainly focuses on the server market.

ThinkPad is a brand of laptop computers. This brand of portable computers was designed, produced and sold by IBM's PC Division before 2005.

After 2005, due to Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division, the ThinkPad trademark was owned by Lenovo. ThinkPad brand computers were manufactured and sold by Lenovo. ThinkPad is the only computer approved for use by the International Space Station. Laptop brand.

IBM’s main customers are governments and enterprises. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and provides consulting services for system architecture and network hosting.

As of 2013, IBM has 12 research laboratories and a large number of software development bases around the world. Although IBM is a commercial company, it has also made high achievements in the fields of materials, chemistry, physics and other sciences. It uses these academic research as a basis to invent many products.

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After Lenovo fully launched the new model, the decline in sales that many people expected did not occur. ThinkPad is still the preferred brand for mainstream business, and due to Lenovo’s adoption It has developed a new sales idea and made the originally high-priced ThinkPad laptops cheaper, making them closer to the sales price of ordinary laptops.

This has promoted the further increase of ThinkPad sales, especially in the Chinese market, where ThinkPad sales are increasing month by month.

The plan for 2006 is to ship 950,000 ThinkPad laptops, but you must know that ThinkPad laptops only reached 1 million units on March 16, 2005. That is to say, after Lenovo fully took over ThinkPad, After Intel officially released the Core 2 notebook processor and Lenovo simultaneously released updated Z61, T60 and X60 (including R60) notebooks, Lenovo, the Lenovo trademark, finally appeared on ThinkPad notebooks.

This is also consistent with Lenovo’s strategic steps: suppress first and then increase. IBM's trademark use rights are only for five years. If Lenovo does not put its trademark in a conspicuous position, it will be a very big problem for Lenovo once IBM's trademark cannot be used.

So taking advantage of Intel's new processors, Lenovo began to mark ThinkPad notebooks with the Lenovo trademark. At this point, it can be said that Lenovo's absolute control over ThinkPad is slowly emerging, and IBM's influence will gradually weaken, leaving only the ThinkPad brand.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lenovo Group