Lenovo Group, the world's largest PC shipments company, was recently discovered to be equipped with solid-state drives from Yangtze Memory in notebooks sold in the United States.This model is equipped with a 512GB YMTC M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 solid-state drive. This is the first time on record that a branded laptop sold in the US market is equipped with an SSD from Yangtze Memory.
Structural changes in the memory chip market are directly responsible for this breakthrough. The huge demand for NAND and DRAM in AI data centers in 2026 has severely squeezed the consumer market supply. Memory prices have risen sharply, and notebook computer prices have also risen accordingly.
Even large PC makers are facing parts shortages. Against this background, the supply of traditional SSD suppliers represented by Samsung, Kioxia, and Western Digital is increasingly tightening, opening a window for Yangtze Memory to enter the mainstream notebook market.
Actual measurement data shows that the solid-state drive model is PC42Q512GBG4Q, which uses 3D QLC flash memory. Sequential read speeds are up to approximately 3950 MB/s, and write speeds are up to approximately 2514 MB/s.
This model is positioned as a people-friendly office notebook and is expected to gain considerable sales through corporate procurement channels.
According to industry analysis, Lenovo has introduced Yangtze Memory SSD into its products in the US market, marking the first time that Chinese memory chips have entered the mainstream international PC supply chain in the form of OEM pre-installation.
