Lenovo lays off 3% of US workforce, affecting some at RTP headquarters
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- Lenovo will cut 3% of U.S. staff, affecting over 100 jobs, including some in RTP.
- Company cites market dynamics for layoffs but pledges continued AI investment.
- Lenovo's RTP campus remains key for AI work and ongoing corporate strategy.
Lenovo, the Chinese personal computer maker with dual headquarters in Beijing and the North Carolina Triangle, confirmed Tuesday it is laying off 3% of its full-time U.S. workforce in a move likely to affect more than 100 employees nationwide, including some at its Morrisville campus.
“Like all businesses, we regularly review our cost structure to align with external market dynamics and make workforce adjustments where necessary,” Lenovo spokesperson Charlotte West shared in a statement to The News & Observer.
The world’s largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo opened its North American headquarters on the southern edge of Research Triangle Park in the mid-2000s. The company expanded this site in 2012 and added local investment last September by buying the naming rights to the former PNC Arena in Raleigh in a 10-year, $60 million deal.
As of February 2024, Lenovo said it employed roughly 5,100 workers in the U.S, with its largest office in North Carolina. Citing corporate policy, Lenovo declined to provide headcounts in North Carolina or Morrisville specifically, nor did the firm say how many Triangle-area workers would lose their jobs. Yet sources confirm to The N&O that at least some of the affected employees were local.
Lenovo entered this year as the 19th-biggest employer in Wake County, state data shows.
These aren’t the first Lenovo layoffs in recent years. The company confirmed layoffs in 2019 and 2022. In 2017, it laid off 300 employees in Research Triangle Park, and two years before that, Lenovo eliminated 230 local positions.
“We are currently making strategic reductions in some parts of our North American business and will continue to invest and focus on initiatives that accelerate the growth and the overall transformation of the company,” Lenovo’s statement read.
Like many technology companies, Lenovo has been investing more into artificial intelligence, with its CEO Yuanqing Yang writing in a June open letter that the next 10 years will be “Lenovo’s AI decade.”
In 2017, Lenovo partnered with the chipmaker Nvidia to add graphics processing unit (GPUs) to its existing servers. And last year, Yang told investors that the market for AI servers was growing at twice the rate of the general servers.
Lenovo houses its AI team at the Research Triangle Park campus.
This story was originally published July 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM with the headline "Lenovo lays off 3% of US workforce, affecting some at RTP headquarters."
