Do we like them?

Do we like Lenovo?

Makes PCs, servers, phones and AI infrastructure; Hong Kong-listed, with main offices in Beijing and Morrisville, US.

Our score: 6 out of 10. A big, mostly solid PC maker with real climate targets. Past privacy failures and a live US data-sharing lawsuit stop us giving it a higher score.

Lenovo is the world's biggest PC maker. Yuanqing Yang joined in 1989 and has been CEO since 2009. He steered it through the purchase of IBM's PC business in 2005 and IBM's server business and Motorola Mobility in 2014. It now says it wants to reach $100bn in revenue within two years.

Ownership is a talking point. Legend Holdings is the biggest shareholder at about 31%, and Yang owns about 6%. Legend's largest holder is the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a state body. SlashGear says some US lawmakers have raised concerns about those ties.

The big black mark is Superfish. Lenovo preloaded ad software on laptops from 2014 that the FTC said created serious security holes. It settled with the FTC and 32 states for $3.5m and had to run a security programme with audits for 20 years. It also paid $7.3m in a class action. Lenovo disagreed with the allegations.

In 2026 a US law firm filed a class action accusing Lenovo of sending American shoppers' browsing data to its Chinese parent, against a US Justice Department rule. Lenovo told The Register the claim is false. It's only an allegation so far.

On the plus side, Lenovo was the first PC and smartphone maker with an SBTi-validated net-zero target. It aims to cut its own emissions by 50% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. We rate it a middling-to-good 6: decent climate work, but a history we'd want to see stay in the past.