Lenovo CEO William J. Amelio said in the statement that the plant would create 1,400 jobs, of which 20 percent would be for highly skilled workers designing new technology and logistics.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, who was on a working visit to Nuevo Leon, attended the presentation of the project.

The high-tech investment in Nuevo Leon would have a very positive impact, representing the "potential we wish to exploit" and the "independence of labor costs, which are traditionally lower in Asia," Calderon said.

The highly skilled positions would certainly go to Mexico's highly qualified workers, the president said.

Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer division two years ago and currently has sales of 14 billion U.S. dollars and 20,000 employees world wide.

It is the third largest computer company in the world, with research centers in the Yamato in Japan, Raleigh in the United States and in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China.