Yang Yuanqing, the CEO of Lenovo (LNVGY), first met Jay Y. Lee at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008. Samsung and Lenovo both were sponsors of the games, and, says Yang, "Our private booths were next to each other." Despite being a competitor across multiple product lines, Lenovo is one of Samsung's biggest customers, annually buying more than $2 billion worth of various kinds of semiconductors and LCDs for its computers. The two struck up a friendship. Yang praises Lee for his attention to detail and was particularly touched by a gift the Samsung leader brought on a visit to Beijing: "He found out my birth year and gave me a bottle of wine that was produced that year."