Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Lenovo revealed on Tuesday that it will manufacture AI servers at its plant in Puducherry, India, and has opened a new infrastructure research and development lab in Bengalaru.

AI sever manufacturing and the infrastructure R&D lab is part of Lenovo's commitment to invest $1 billion in AI innovation over 2023-26

BENGALURU (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group will start making artificial intelligence (AI) servers at its plant in southern India and opened an AI servers-focussed R&D lab in the tech hub of Bengaluru, the electronics hardware maker said on Tuesday.

Lenovo will be making AI servers in India and exporting to other countries and has also opened a new R&D facility in Bengaluru.

Global technology company Lenovo will start manufacturing high-performance AI servers in India. It has also opened a research and development lab focused on the company's infrastructure solutions.

Chinese IT hardware manufacturer, Lenovo, has upped its India manufacturing play. The company, which has been selected in the Rs 17,000-crore, IT production-linked incentive scheme, has now decided to start manufacturing 50,000 graphics processing units-based AI servers in India next year.

Lenovo’s Puducherry plant will now produce enterprise AI and GPU servers, specifically designed for AI workloads. These servers will meet the growing demand for AI infrastructure, both in India and internationally,

PC maker Lenovo India will start manufacturing 50,000 GPU-based AI servers in India next year, the company said on Tuesday. Besides this, Lenovo announced setting up its fourth largest research and development centre in Bengaluru.

The PC maker's production plant will be based in Puducherry, which will manufacture 50,000 enterprise AI servers and 2,400 high-end GPU units annually

The facility will cater to the booming AI infrastructure needs, with over 60% of the production expected to be exported across the Asia-Pacific region.