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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.
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.
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.
October 2020
Supercomputing in India
First supercomputer assembled entirely in India was installed under the National Supercomputing Mission.
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.
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.
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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