Liu Chuanzhi: Tablet PC industry will take the road to blossoming

"In the field of tablet PC, Apple cited a path, but in the industry behind it will be a road to flourishing." In a joint interview with Chinese media in San Francisco on the 19th, Lenovo Holdings Ltd. Chairman and President, Lenovo Group Board of Directors Chairman Liu Chuanzhi gave this kind of judgment and outlook on the direction of the tablet computer industry.

Liu Chuanzhi pointed out that due to compatibility issues, the format previously formed by Intel and Microsoft in the computer industry made it difficult for CPUs (central processing units) and operating systems to be broken. For example, he said that in the early 1990s, Apple, IBM, and Motorola had jointly launched PowerPC products in an attempt to compete with Intel and other companies. However, this did not actually work, indicating that the “big picture has been confined”.

Currently, there are both closed and open operating systems for tablet computers. Different choices are also expected on the chip. Nokia and Microsoft recently announced that they will cooperate, and it also indicates that the industry structure may have new changes in the future.

Liu Chuanzhi predicts that in the future on tablet technology, “a variety of combinations will emerge.” He believes that the final contest may lie in who can better work for businesses that provide content services in the production environment, such as developing more. Many app stores and more.

Liu Chuanzhi recently attended several public events in the San Francisco Bay Area and delivered speeches at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Silicon Valley with Lenovo's successful acquisition of IBM's personal computer business case. In his speeches and exchanges with the audience, Liu Chuanzhi repeatedly mentioned and was asked about tablet topics.

In his speech, he pointed out that facing the current status of consumer customers interested in tablet PCs, if Lenovo holds on to the existing products and fails to carry out strategic adjustments in time, there will be a danger of extinction.

In Liu’s view, the replacement of a tablet computer as a consumer product is obviously a big direction. “Since it is a direction, it cannot be defeated.” In an interview, he said that Lenovo has completed important organizational restructuring in the tablet PC business. Next, it will proceed step by step according to its own strategic roadmap.

Lenovo announced in January this year that it has formed a new mobile internet and digital home business group, focusing on the development of tablet PCs, smart phones and smart TVs. Lenovo’s first tablet, the Le Pad, is scheduled to be launched in China in the first quarter of this year.

In terms of market share, Lenovo Group is currently the world’s fourth-largest PC maker. However, Liu Chuanzhi frankly stated that compared to Apple and other companies, Lenovo has a large gap between its financial strength and technology accumulation. Under this circumstance, Lenovo’s strategy will be “trying to keep up with the mainstream and accumulate it for a certain period of time”.

Liu Chuanzhi said that Lenovo has the confidence to achieve its goal, that is, to occupy a larger or greater share in the Chinese market, and to have its own brand and certain strength in the international market. “We may start with a slow beat, maybe we will A beat, but will not be frivolous for a small victory, not frustrated and discouraged, will certainly go step by step."