14 DAY TRIAL // In many ways, Lenovo and Samsung are rivals, but that doesn't mean they cannot collaborate in certain areas.
It helps that Samsung isn't one of the primary opponents of Lenovo on the PC market, and that they have a similar interest: cloud computing.
As it turns out, Lenovo wants a share of the cloud industry, since it already has a lot, if not most, of the PC market under its heel.
And since Samsung also wants a slice of the cloud data center industry, the two have reportedly entered an agreement with each other and Taiwan-based product and hardware component suppliers.
Component purchasing, manufacturing management and logistics are areas where Taiwan-based firms excel. Lenovo and Samsung intend to use that.
Meanwhile, Samsung is looking for other data center partners, while Lenovo is planning joint ventures with Taiwan-based ODMs (original device manufacturers), for handling server manufacturing. It will even buy IBM's entry-level server business.