Winston Cheng
CFO, Lenovo
“some of the memory specific areas, it does take almost two to three years for a new fab to come online... component shortage or demand driven challenge on the supply chain will continue probably for at least two to three years.”
“memory, GPUs, CPUs, chips and transformers... optical connectors... land power... actual power from the grid.”
“the duplication could happen in the pipeline... but not necessarily in a backlog because... by that time it's actually already a signed deal. So they wouldn't double sign... the commitment that we see in the market, particularly for data center space, for equipment... is really a multi year commitment.”
“we're in the Middle east to work with the Saudi government on sustainable but also cheap solar... very low cost energy there that could actually support AI infrastructure.”
“most of the profits have been towards the IC companies, the OS companies... I think there's an opportune time for the device makers today to optimize.”
Winston Cheng
One-line summary: Lenovo's CFO; a buyer-side primary source on the memory/component shortage and AI backlog durability.
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On hbm-cowos-as-binding-bottleneck, hbm-supply-bottleneck:
"some of the memory specific areas, it does take almost two to three years for a new fab to come online... component shortage or demand driven challenge on the supply chain will continue probably for at least two to three years." — 2026-06-27-podcast-odd-lots-how-lenovo-s-cfo-is-allocating-capital-during-one (2026-06-27)
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On ai-capex-to-power-and-materials-cascade:
"memory, GPUs, CPUs, chips and transformers... optical connectors... land power... actual power from the grid." — 2026-06-27-podcast-odd-lots-how-lenovo-s-cfo-is-allocating-capital-during-one (2026-06-27)
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On ai-capex-order-books-to-non-tech-semi-correlation:
"the duplication could happen in the pipeline... but not necessarily in a backlog because... by that time it's actually already a signed deal. So they wouldn't double sign... the commitment that we see in the market, particularly for data center space, for equipment... is really a multi year commitment." — 2026-06-27-podcast-odd-lots-how-lenovo-s-cfo-is-allocating-capital-during-one (2026-06-27)
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On ai-capex-to-power-and-materials-cascade:
"we're in the Middle east to work with the Saudi government on sustainable but also cheap solar... very low cost energy there that could actually support AI infrastructure." — 2026-06-27-podcast-odd-lots-how-lenovo-s-cfo-is-allocating-capital-during-one (2026-06-27)
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On (no topic linked):
"most of the profits have been towards the IC companies, the OS companies... I think there's an opportune time for the device makers today to optimize." — 2026-06-27-podcast-odd-lots-how-lenovo-s-cfo-is-allocating-capital-during-one (2026-06-27)
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