Lenovo
4 storiesLenovo is a China-based maker of personal computers and data center hardware, including the ThinkPad line. Recent coverage places it as a partner in several launches: NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops are sold by Lenovo among other vendors, Lenovo is named as a partner for NVIDIA's DSX POD modular data center design, and Google's Googlebooks starting at $899 were built with Lenovo and other PC makers. A hobbyist also used a ThinkPad motherboard in a dual RTX 3090 inference build.
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NVIDIA said RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, combining a Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. Updates include the open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe speech model, LFM3 support and GPU resource controls in NVIDIA App.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled DSX POD, a modular data center reference design based on Vera Rubin systems, with partners like Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Schneider Electric pre-installing and testing units at the factory. It cuts on-site setup from six months to as little as 14 days. First units ship in early 2027, and closed-loop cooling can use up to 100% less water.
A Reddit user showcased a homemade '2400cc Inference Racer': two used RTX 3090s linked via NVLink, driven by a bare 7840U ThinkPad motherboard, cooled by a VW Golf radiator and about 2.4 litres of coolant, with PCIe routed through WWAN and SSD slots and a patched BIOS. It runs Ubuntu and serves Qwen3.8-27B via vLLM.
Alphabet's Google announced pricing and hardware specs for its first Googlebooks, starting at $899 and built with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer and ASUS. The move marks Google's push into the high-end laptop market, where built-in AI features have become standard.
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