A five-year-old manufacturing joint venture in Shenzhen between IBM and mainland-based China Great Wall is poised to become one of Asia's biggest exporters of computing equipment.
The joint venture, called International Information Products (Shenzhen) (IIP), is already one of the biggest makers of computing equipment for the mainland, according to its general manager Jeffrey Gallinat.
He said IIP, located at the Shenzhen Science and Industry Park in Nantou, had evolved from a PC manufacturing base for China's large domestic market into 'a strategic fulfilment centre' for IBM's vastly larger PC business across Asia.
'This has meant significant expansion in our product offerings, our volumes and our customers,' he said.
This would mean more of the company's annual output of IBM desktops, ThinkPad notebooks and servers allocated for export in the next few years. And it would see IIP being transformed into 'a critical IBM global manufacturing centre for computers'.
Mr Gallinat said IIP's target was to make more than half of its annual output for export.
'All of the IBM desktops, ThinkPads and e-Servers being sold around Asia are manufactured here,' he said.