Lenovo is the world’s biggest PC maker but the Chinese tech giant has set its sights on a new goal.

“Our midterm goal is to become the largest infrastructure provider in the world,” Kirk Skaugen, executive vice president of Lenovo, told Nikkei Asia.

“Typically,” he continued, “my goal is to grow at double the market, regardless of the region and product line. That’s roughly what we’ve been doing.”

Revenue for the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, the division that handles servers, storage equipment and data centre hardware, grew 14 per cent in the April-June, to A$2.9 billion. It saw record revenue for the quarter.

This division stood apart from the Lenovo Group, which saw revenues remain flat due to slowing PC demand.

“We sell to eight of the top 10 public clouds in the world,” Skaugen said.

Lenovo is using its global might to build this nascent area of its company.

“We can get a much bigger scale by keeping PCs together with servers,” Skaugen said.

“We don’t negotiate as a separate phone company, a PC company, or a data center company. We negotiate for memory. We negotiate for processors [as one company]. This scale is significant.”

Skaugen believes, for a Chinese company, Lenovo has largely avoided the rising geopolitical tensions.

“So far we’ve been doing well, and I would say the U.S. is our fastest-growing market right now.

“If we need something in a particular country, we can do it. We have a lot of flexibility. If you want something designed in one part of the world versus the other, we can do that.

“Sometimes we get asked to build things in one part of the world. Sometimes we get asked to design and build things in other parts of the world. But we’re almost perfectly balanced.”