By Simon Sharwood
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 06:10:00
Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.
The Chinese hardware champ today posted $20.5 billion of revenue for its second quarter, a 15 percent year-over-year improvement. Profit fell one percent, to $380 million. Lenovo’s enterprise hardware biz, the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), outperformed the company in terms of revenue growth with its $4.1 billion revenue coming in 24 percent higher than in the corresponding quarter last year. Even with that extra revenue, it again posted a $32 million loss.
Lenovo built the ISG on the x86 server business it acquired from IBM in 2014, but then could not run at a profit until 2022 before it again sank into the red. ISG has since posted a mix of tiny profits and modest losses.
Company leadership thinks it can finally set ISG on…
