- Lenovo CEO tells us more AI-enabled PCs are coming to your workplace near you soon
- Cost is a concern, but productivity and efficiency increases mitigate it.
- Predicting the future and developing a solid roadmap is also a challenge, Lenovo admits
Lenovo’s CEO has predicted that about half of business-ready computers will be AI-enabled PCs by the end of 2026, as the technology becomes more common.
Yuanqing Yang, also known as YY, said TechRadar Pro He was hopeful about the continued spread and availability of AI-enabled PCs, but admitted that cost would be an issue in driving 100% adoption.
“Our prediction is that by the end of this year, about fifteen percent of PCs will be AI PCs,” he told us in a media Q&A at CES 2026, hinting that devices built with Lenovo’s new Qira AI model would help drive adoption even further.
AI everywhere
Lenovo unveiled a host of new business devices at CES 2026, ranging from super-powerful ThinkPad Carbon business laptops to full PC towers.
This confidence from the world’s largest PC maker was clear during its spectacular keynote speech at the Las Vegas Sphere, where YY welcomed partners such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon.
Expressing its belief that “AI is definitely not a bubble,” YY also stated its belief that AI will become a central part of our working lives going forward.
“No one can avoid AI, but AI will not replace humans, it will only empower each of us in the future, it will help us remember more, do more and be more creative… it will help us be more competitive in all areas,” he added.
“One of the fundamental principles with which we develop AI is our belief in responsible AI,” added Tolga Kurtoglu, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Lenovo.
“I don’t see a world without AI,” he said, “We think of AI as unlocking human potential, we think of it as augmenting people…almost like a symbiotic team that is an extension of you, helping you be more productive and efficient in what you want to achieve.”
When asked how far ahead the company is looking in terms of its development strategy, Kurtoglu admitted that the rapid pace of AI development poses problems for companies of Lenovo’s size and breadth.
“For the AI era, I think a five-year roadmap is a pipe dream,” he said, “I always emphasize three things: it’s about agility, adaptability and speed; it’s not about predicting what will happen five years from now, it’s about changing the market dynamics and always increasing the market’s learning rate.”
“That doesn’t mean we don’t have a roadmap, but with the pace of innovation we see, five years is too long… (and) our goal is not to predict the future, our goal is to learn as quickly as possible, from the perspective of end users, so that we can innovate based on that knowledge.”
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