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2025 | Published a research article in Nature Communications detailing the genetics of participants, including principal components analysis projections of the biobank's genetic diversity. |
2024 | Published a scientific paper in Nature journal, linking electronic health records to genomics data using a uniform manifold approximation and projection algorithm. |
2024 | The All of Us initiative faced significant criticism and backlash for its methodology of using umap plotting to depict ancestry, instead of the more statistically standard principal components analysis (PCA). |
2024 | Lenovo bought the naming rights to the Carolina Hurricanes' arena, renaming it Lenovo Center. |
2024 | Lenovo continued to experience challenges, with revenue further reducing to US$56.8 billion, net profit dropping to US$1.1 billion, and employee count decreasing to 69,500. |
October 2024 | Lenovo was named the official technology partner of FIFA. |
2023 | Lenovo saw a decline in revenue to US$61.9 billion, with net profit decreasing to US$1.6 billion, and employee count increasing to 77,000. |
March 2023 | Launched the LOQ gaming sub-brand, targeting budget and new-to-gaming markets. |
2022 | The program targeted reaching one million participants by this year. |
2022 | Lenovo reached peak performance with revenue of US$71.6 billion, net profit of US$2.0 billion, and 75,000 employees. |
2021 | Introduced the Legion 5 Pro laptop with AMD 5th series CPU and Nvidia 30s GPU. |
2021 |
FinisTerrae
Finisterrae III supercomputer deployed, featuring approximately 1968 TFlops of computational power and running on Linux operating system.
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October 8 2021 | Lenovo withdrew its application to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, causing its Hong Kong Stock Exchange share price to drop by over 17%. |
July 2021 | Lenovo was introduced as a sponsor on the back of Inter's new home shirt for the 2021–22 season. |
May 2021 | Lenovo and Motorola Mobility created a limited edition Motorola Razr to celebrate Inter's 19th Scudetto. |
April 2021 |
Supercomputing in India
Planned completion date for second phase supercomputers with an Indian-designed processor.
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April 2021 | Lenovo reorganized into three divisions: Intelligent Devices Group, Infrastructure Solutions Group, and Solutions and Services Group. The company reached $60 billion in annual revenues. |
February 2021 | Bloomberg Businessweek reported on the previously discovered security breach involving Lenovo laptops used by U.S. military units in Iraq. |
January 12 2021 | Lenovo filed an application to issue Chinese depositary receipts and list them on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Science and Technology Innovation Board. |
2020 | A. Grama and A. Sameh edited a Birkhauser volume containing two parts: recent advances in high performance algorithms and selected challenging computational science and engineering applications. |
2020 | Lenovo became a preferred data center innovation provider for DreamWorks Animation, starting with Trolls World Tour. |
2020 | Lenovo maintained stable performance with revenue of US$50.7 billion, net profit of US$0.66 billion, and 57,000 employees. |
2020 | Lenovo commanded a leading global PC market share of 25.7 percent in the third quarter. |
2020 | Launched the Legion 3, 5, and 7 laptop series, with Legion 7 being the highest specification model. |
December 2020 |
Supercomputing in India
NSM aimed to develop indigenous manufacturing capability for supercomputer production.
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October 2020 |
Supercomputing in India
First supercomputer assembled entirely in India was installed under the National Supercomputing Mission.
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July 2020 | Lenovo informed customers it had stopped manufacturing with Bitland and was moving production of related devices to other suppliers after accusations of using forced Uyghur labor. |
June 2020 |
Supercomputing in India
India reduces to 2 systems in the TOP500 list, representing 0.4% of total systems, with 6,334,340 Gflops of computational performance.
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June 2020 | All of Us added monthly participant surveys to collect data on the physical, mental, and socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
June 2020 | NIH announced that All of Us research materials would be utilized to address the COVID-19 pandemic, including testing blood samples for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and evaluating electronic health records for infection patterns. |
June 2020 | Enrollment reached approximately 350,000 individuals, continuing the program's progress towards its diversity and participation goals. |
May 2020 | Lenovo Data Center Group expanded its AMD offerings by introducing two-processor systems, the SR645 and SR665, further diversifying their server product line. |
May 27 2020 | The All of Us research program launched the All of Us Researcher Workbench for beta testing, making initial data from the first 225,000 program participants available to approved researchers through a dedicated research platform. |
2019 |
Supercomputing in India
Began installation of High Performance Computing (HPC) machines, with a total of 24.83 petaFLOPS put into service between 2019 and 2023.
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2019 | A review identified the All of Us initiative as a program that involves the public in every stage of research, highlighting its collaborative approach to medical research. |
2019 | Joshua Denny was selected as the second director of the All of Us Research Program, succeeding Eric Dishman. |
2019 | One year after launch, the program had enrolled 230,000 participants, representing almost one quarter of its total participant goal. Notably, approximately 80% of these participants were from groups traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research. |
2019 | Lenovo signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with FC Internazionale as their Global Technology Partner. |
2019 | Lenovo showed significant improvement, increasing revenue to US$51.0 billion and net profit to US$0.59 billion, with 57,000 employees. |
August 2019 | Lenovo introduced the first two ThinkSystem platforms with AMD EPYC processors: the SR635 (1U) and SR655 (2U) server models, expanding their processor options beyond Intel. |
2018 | Lenovo introduced several home automation products at the IFA technology trade show, expanding its Smart Home and IoT product lineup. |
2018 | At E3, Lenovo announced three new Legion laptops with redesigned chassis: Y530, Y730, and Y7000. |
2018 | Lenovo became the world's largest provider for the TOP500 supercomputers. |
2018 | Lenovo saw modest revenue growth to US$45.3 billion but again experienced a net loss of US$0.18 billion, with employee count increasing to 54,000. |
2018 | Lenovo became a technology partner of Ducati Corse in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. |
September 2018 | Lenovo and NetApp announced a strategic partnership and joint venture in China, launching two new storage system lines: DM-Series and DE-Series. |
June 2018 | A sample consent form was released, explaining the voluntary nature of participation and that participants can quit the program and have their samples destroyed. |
May 2018 | The NIH reported high enrollment of underrepresented groups, with up to three-quarters of beta phase participants coming from communities of color and lower-income backgrounds. |
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