Bengaluru, PC maker Lenovo India will start manufacturing 50,000 GPU-based AI servers in India next year, the company said on Tuesday.

Lenovo India Managing Director Shailendra Katiyal said the company will manufacture servers locally and also export them from its manufacturing unit in Puducherry.

"Lenovo will manufacture 50,000 servers annually. Production will begin next year. It will not only be manufactured at our Pondicherry facility for India but will also be exported from India," Katiyal said.

Lenovo India is among the companies selected for the Rs 17,000 crore IT hardware production-linked incentive scheme.

The company is also setting up its fourth largest research and development center in India.

"We are setting up the fourth largest R&D center for Lenovo globally. We have the same number of benches across our four big R&D centres. India will have a higher skill set ecosystem. It matches our global facility. And all four units here are at par with each other,” said Amit Luthra, Managing Director, Infrastructure Group, Lenovo India.

He said the Bengaluru R&D center will contribute to all five key stages of the product life cycle, starting from system design, firmware and software development, product assurance, security and testing elements.