is having across many industries of late, as the evidence is undeniable. All of the big tech players worked to have solutions ready to go to market in 2023, and now in 2024 it has seemingly become the turn of hardware manufacturers to debut AI-ready devices.
As a market leader in the laptop segment, we recently spoke with Lenovo Southern Africa GM, Yugen Naidoo , to unpack some of the new hardware that the company recently, as well as get his thoughts on what AI-ready means, along with what his company’s goals are for this burgeoning vertical.“I think AI has been the talk of the town for many, many years, but what we’re seeing now is what Lenovo has invested close to a billion dollars into starting the next phase of artificial intelligence.
“We’re actually going to kick off in Saudi and the Gulf as a starting point, and they’re talking about shipments in the second half of the year for now. From a South African standpoint when it comes to AI-ready PC, we want to bring it to mainstream, because whatare saying, is that by 2026, 50 percent of new devices shipped will be AI-ready. So we will be pushing from the second half of the year locally,” Naidoo confirmed.