IBM Puts The PC In Its Past
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The computer giant hands off its personal-computer business business to a Chinese firm
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The Motley Fool - Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the first hard drive, the IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) RAMAC. This month is also the 25th anniversary of the wide-scale rollout of the first personal computer, the IBM 5150.
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The immediate future of the computer industry -- and its biggest players -- took center stage Tuesday after IBM announced it is selling its PC business to a Chinese technology giant.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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IBM has quit the personal computer market 23 years after legitimising the PC revolution that changed everything - from the way we work to the fortunes of Microsoft&#39;s Bill Gates.
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In a highly anticipated announcement, IBM (Quote, Chart) confirmed late Tuesday it is selling its PC division to China&#39;s Lenovo Group.
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IBM, the company that invented the PC, has put its PC business up for sale, according to the New York Times, and is in discussions with China&#39;s largest maker of personal computers, Lenovo Group (formerly Legend Group), and at least one other potential
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A report in The New York Times that IBM is poised to sell off its PC unit has provoked mixed reactions and tentative interpretations from analysts who follow the historic company.
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IBM's decision to sell its PC division to a China-based company prompted a range of reactions today from technology users, from disappointment to a belief that the move reflects the times and the impact of globalization.
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InfoWorld - IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art datacenters running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume.
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IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said Thursday.
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This week, IBM said it is selling off most of its PC division to Lenovo, China's No. 1 PC maker. The news is likely to rattle IBM customers - but it may end up benefiting them long term. USA TODAY reporter Michelle Kessler answers some questions many IBM customers are asking:
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Computer manufacturer IBM has been given the go ahead to build the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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If there were any lingering doubts that we are in the post-PC era, several big stories this year should have cleared them up. The sale of IBM's PC business to China's Lenovo Group and the death of Comdex were powerful reminders that IT is in a transitional stage. When one of the hottest business stories of the year involves an IPO of a company whose technology helps people find information on the Net, it's certain that the network, to paraphrase the well-known dictum of Sun Microsystems, has become the computer.
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IBM, which pioneered the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry.
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IBM is the first PC manufacturer to use a National Semiconductor chip that stores a PC&#39;s identity in silicon to avert hackers by safeguarding passwords and other sensitive identity information.
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IBM has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on Web site of The New York Times.