14 DAY TRIAL // Going with its agenda to prove resourceful on every market segment it tackles, Lenovo has been aggressively placing tablet orders.
As some may or may not know, Lenovo wants to be big on the tablet like it wants preeminence on the PC field.
Whether or not it is going to achieve this goal is something that remains to be seen, the same way its performance, so far, is a matter of debate.
Then again, when a company manages to sell 160,000 of those things during a single quarter (the second quarter of 2011), to give just the Chinese figure, attention is definitely drawn.
The above number is Lenovo's milestone, though it is still lower than the one Apple's iPad secured.
Regardless, Lenovo's tablets seem to be doing fairly well, even if they aren't as often found in headlines as, say, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
According to Digitimes, Pegatron is the company that will have to manufacture the LePad tablets, the ones with four processing cores.
Pegatron used to serve as Medion's manufacturing partner, but the latter was acquired by Lenovo earlier this year.
Thus, the Lenovo-Pegatron partnership was, in a way, inherited from Medion.
Pegatron will also have to make tablets fro Toshiba and Acer, much to its delight (manufacturers always could use more orders).
The Lenovo LePad tablet PC will start being mass produced after the Chinese Lunar New Year (in January, 2012).
Obviously the chip used in its making is the new and mighty Kal-El from NVIDIA, the Tegra 3 as it is more widely known.
With four ARM processors and a GPU, it can be described as a five-core chip and is much more powerful than Tegra 2, which already impressed everyone.
Now we just have to wait and see if any lawsuits get started because of this thing.