Ecological Resonance, Professional Empowerment: ThinkPad Launches Its First-Ever Ecosystem Recruitment, Joining Hands with Deep Tech Entrepreneurs to Build a New Future for AI PCs
On December 22, 2025, the third season of the "Lenovo · New Business Innovation Ecosystem Roadshow Season" - Shenzhen ThinkPad Special Session was successfully held in Shenzhen. For the first time, the ThinkPad industrial ecosystem was opened globally, which is another important milestone for Lenovo to expand its ecosystem "friend circle" in the era of AI PCs.
Different from the previous regular roadshows, this ThinkPad special session has focused on the segmented technology fields that are highly synergistic with the ThinkPad product matrix and Lenovo's AI PC strategy since the recruitment began, ensuring the precise matching between the short - listed projects and the characteristics and business needs of the Lenovo ThinkPad ecosystem. This means that all exchanges are aimed at substantial cooperation from the beginning, significantly shortening the path from technical docking to the completion of project PoC verification. The extremely high project matching degree and project quality have attracted dozens of Lenovo business leaders to participate and also inspired the interaction enthusiasm of the on - site judges. Many projects have received high - frequency questions and comments from the jury members.
As a landmark brand that has witnessed more than three decades of computing evolution, ThinkPad has continuously defined the boundaries of productivity tools in successive technological changes. From entering space with spacecraft to becoming the trusted partner of over 100 million business users globally, ThinkPad always represents the ultimate pursuit of technological practicality, security, and complete experience.
Today, in the wave of the deep integration of AI and hardware, ThinkPad is continuously expanding the boundaries of innovation and embracing entrepreneurs with hardcore technologies, innovative scenarios, and a willingness to cooperate to jointly explore the infinite possibilities of the technology ecosystem. Under the "All in AI" strategy, ThinkPad not only carries Lenovo's profound accumulation in the high - end commercial market but also, together with the Lenovo Innovation Accelerator, will build an enabling system from technology verification to business implementation.
At the event site, eight high - potential projects competed on the same stage, and guests from Lenovo and its ecosystem partners attended together. Whether on the stage or off the stage, the product evolution, technology integration, and scenario co - creation of ThinkPad became the core topics of the day's communication. The participants jointly outlined a clear cooperation prospect with confidence and expectations.
Industry Dialogue: Ecosystem Strategy and Implementation in the AI PC Era
During the event, guests from Lenovo, investment institutions, and core partners focused on AI PCs and hard - technology entrepreneurship and shared forward - looking strategic judgments and practical insights.
Song Hao, the person in charge of the Lenovo Innovation Accelerator elaborated on Lenovo's future path centered on "hybrid artificial intelligence", emphasizing that AI needs to integrate personal, corporate, and public intelligence to be truly implemented. He introduced that Lenovo aims to practice two - way empowerment and accompany the growth of partners through creating the "personal intelligent twin" and upgrading the Lenovo Innovation Accelerator ecosystem platform, jointly promoting the large - scale commercial implementation of innovative technologies.
Gu Shulu, the senior director of R & D of intelligent device solutions at Lenovo Group reviewed ThinkPad's evolution over the past three decades around the concepts of "reliability, professionalism, and innovation". He pointed out that ThinkPad has evolved from a single device to a "productivity platform" covering all scenarios. In the AI era, ThinkPad will use the open ecosystem as a fulcrum to jointly define the experience and form of the next - generation professional devices with partners.
Shen Dongliang, the founding partner of Yuanshu Venture Capital pointed out that 2025 has become the "Year of AI Hardware", and real AI hardware needs to have the ability of "perception and decision - making". He reminded entrepreneurs to be vigilant against false demands, deeply explore real scenarios, and build comprehensive competitiveness in "product power, brand power, supply chain, and ecosystem power" to establish long - term advantages in the market with equal access to technology.
Zhao Chenguang, the commercial product manager of AMD Greater China revealed the key breakthroughs in edge - side AI deployment from the perspective of computing power foundation. He mainly introduced the "MiniAI Workstation" launched by AMD. This solution uses a low - cost and unified memory architecture to achieve the efficient local operation of large - scale parameter models, significantly reducing the threshold for high - quality private deployment of AI and providing a powerful and inclusive computing power support for ecosystem innovation.
Voices of Entrepreneurs: A Two - way Journey with the ThinkPad Ecosystem
Before the competition, the expert group selected eight high - quality projects (see later) from many applicants to participate in the on - site competition. These projects cover frontier fields such as AI edge - side chips, new interaction and perception technologies, and intelligent voice and acoustic solutions.
For the roadshow participants, the Lenovo Innovation Accelerator will provide five core benefits, namely "co - creation of production and R & D, open ecosystem, capital support, brand empowerment, and service empowerment", to provide full - link support for the selected projects from technology verification to scale growth.
After a fierce competition and strict review by experts from Lenovo and professional investors, the Top3 ThinkPad Ecosystem Innovation Partner Awards were awarded to Qiying Tailun, Mingxin Qirui, and Huangli Zhisheng. They will additionally receive core benefits provided by Lenovo, including consulting and tutoring from an expert group, opportunities to participate in million - level PoC projects, priority in cooperation with Lenovo's factories, closed - door docking meetings with top - tier investment institutions, exposure in the industry worth hundreds of millions, up to $50,000 in Microsoft Cloud resources, and a Lenovo accessories gift package. They will also have direct conversations with the ThinkPad product leaders and have the opportunity to access ThinkPad's trillion - level business ecosystem, breaking through the wall between technology and business.
At the roadshow site, entrepreneurs demonstrated cutting - edge innovation results, shared their real thoughts during the process of technological breakthrough and business implementation, and expressed their expectations for the Lenovo ecosystem.
Deng Bin, the deputy general manager of Qiying Tailun has been deeply involved in the field of voice AI chips for more than a decade. He believes that "true AI interaction should be system - level scenario understanding and response, and the large model is promoting the transformation of interaction methods. Voice will become the most natural interaction entry." When talking about globalization, he said, "Lenovo's global supply chain and local operation capabilities are the key bridges for our hard - technology enterprises to go global, which can efficiently convey the value of technology to the world."
Guo Xianqiu, the founder of Lingkong Zhidong is committed to defining the next - generation human - machine interaction. The team's independently developed spatial gesture interaction technology can achieve accurate recognition of "monocular, long - distance, and global", aiming to break through the physical limitations of keyboards, mice, and touchscreens. He looks forward to conducting system - level cooperation with Lenovo: "Integrate our capabilities into the underlying layer and open them to developers and users, so as to generate more innovative applications in the Lenovo device ecosystem."
Yang Qian, the assistant to the CEO of Ruimeng Semiconductor focuses on the surging heat dissipation demand behind AI computing power: "As the computing power density continues to increase, heat dissipation has become a key bottleneck. We provide a full - stack piezoelectric heat dissipation solution and look forward to conducting collaborative R & D with Lenovo from the early stage of product definition to achieve the precise docking of technology and scenarios."
Liu Zhi, the CEO of Huangli Zhisheng pointed out from the evolution trend of voice interaction: "The large model is promoting a fundamental transformation of interaction methods, and voice will become the key entry. We focus on 'noise - cancelling level sound collection' and hope to deeply integrate with Lenovo in scenarios such as AI PCs and intelligent meetings to jointly improve the interaction experience of productivity tools."
Zhang Bo, the co - founder of Weiyi Intelligence is deeply involved in the field of AI personalization systems. He believes that "future AI should be a 'companion who understands you'. We understand users through multi - sensor devices, but the real value realization requires cross - device collaboration. Lenovo's 'one - body, multi - terminal' strategy is highly consistent with ours, especially in the innovation of AI experience in the Windows ecosystem. There is huge cooperation space."
Zhang Deming, the founder of Acoustic Bit is committed to breaking through the limits of ultra - low latency and sound quality in wireless audio transmission. With the world's lowest latency of 3 - 8ms, high - fidelity in the full frequency range of 20Hz - 24KHz, and 720 - degree full - space sound pickup technology, he aims to create the next - generation audio underlying chip that truly realizes'sensory interconnection' and redefine the human - machine audio interaction experience. Lenovo has rich hardware carriers in scenarios such as e - sports, creation, and meetings. The cooperation between the two sides can jointly define the next - generation 'professional - level' audio experience."
Yang Xingxing, the CEO of FABFUN defined the new form of lightweight input devices from the perspective of usage scenarios. She said, "As an early - stage project, we urgently need support in supply chain, funds, and engineering capabilities. Lenovo's mature industrial ecosystem is exactly the 'accelerator' we most hope to access."
General Manager Liu, the co - founder of Mingxin Qirui said that the team has more than 200 core patents and focuses on the R & D of in - memory computing AI chips based on resistive random - access memory (RRAM) to break through the data memory wall limitation of the traditional architecture and the computing power bottleneck. As an invested enterprise of Lenovo Venture Capital, he particularly mentioned, "The Lenovo Innovation Accelerator has helped us accurately connect our products with the R & D system and clarify the mass production requirements and market standards. This kind of industrial - level feedback and guidance is crucial for hard - technology companies."
Roadshow projects in Shenzhen
Keep Moving Forward, See You at the Next Stop
In Shenzhen, we witnessed the first opening of the ThinkPad ecosystem and felt the resonance of in - depth cooperation between hard - technology entrepreneurs and Lenovo, the industry leader. Lenovo always believes that only by taking root in the industry and moving forward hand in hand can technology take root and the ecosystem thrive.
The journey of innovation never stops. Lenovo will continue to use the "Lenovo Innovation Accelerator" as a bridge to work with more entrepreneurs who are not afraid of difficulties and focus on creation. They will go deep into the industrial field, explore the real - world scenarios of AI implementation, and jointly build an innovative ecosystem for sustainable growth.
Looking forward to meeting you again at the next stop and jointly embracing the future of industrial innovation.