China's Lenovo in talks with IBM to buy server business LENOVO Group's talks to buy part of International Business Machines's server business show the Chinese personal-computer giant's next ambition: challenging US rivals in the lucrative market for products and services aimed at corporate clients. Lenovo is still a minor player in enterprise servers, even though the company is now the world's largest PC maker after it overtook Hewlett-Packard and Dell. A deal with IBM could turn Lenovo into a competitive player in the roughly $US50 billion server market. In the third quarter of last year, H-P was the world's largest server vendor by revenue with a 28 per cent share of the market, followed by IBM with 23 per cent and Dell with 16 per cent, according to research firm IDC.