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IBM's PC division 'for sale'
News IBM, which gave legitimacy to 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. While we believe IBM is seeking to enhance [its PC group's] profits, Big Blue...
[December 3, 2004, 16:30]
IBM cuts PC server prices, says share is up
News IBM Personal Systems Group is the new name for what was previously the IBM PC Company. The Group also touted IDC market research Q3 statistics that say its PC server share grew 27.5 per cent faster than the industry average year on year.
[November 27, 1997, 9:21]
IBM sells PC division to Lenovo
News IBM will sell its PC division to China-based Lenovo and take a minority stake in the former rival in a deal valued at $1.75bn, the companies announced on Tuesday. The two companies plan to form a complex joint venture that would make Lenovo the...
[December 8, 2004, 7:35]
IBM's PC sale will see fireworks
Leader IBM is going to sell its PC division to China-based Lenovo and take a minority stake in its former rival in a deal valued at $1.75bn. Despite its best efforts throughout the 80s and 90s to shape an adolescent PC business that would grow up to make...
[December 8, 2004, 12:15]
IBM slashes business-PC prices
News While IBM's price starts at $469, Dell's least expensive small business PC, a version of its Dimension 2350 desktop, starts at $399. IBM has quietly increased the ranks of its ThinkCentre desktop PCs, adding a line of less-expensive desktops aimed...
[June 25, 2003, 7:45]
IBM reorients the PC market
Leader Rumours that IBM is to hand over PC manufacturing to a Chinese company have raised eyebrows -- and the stock of the most-whispered recipient, Lenovo. Meanwhile, IBM -- never happy with high volume, low margin markets -- will be freed of the burdens...
[December 6, 2004, 12:20]
News Burst: IBM debuts wearable PC
News PC industry giant IBM unveiled an ultra-portable PC at its IBM Fair '98 this week. Neither a release date nor pricing for the concept product were announced by IBM. Envisioned as a tool for maintenance, installation, and repair personnel, the...
[September 18, 1998, 10:01]
IBM chases a PC's soul
News Researchers at IBM are testing software that would let you tote your home or office desktop around on an iPod or similar portable device, so that you could run it on any PC. IBM said three technology trends have recently made SoulPad feasible...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
IBM phases out all-in-one PC
News IBM plans to retire its all-in-one NetVista X Series PC after only two years on the market. IBM later inserted a panel so IT managers could reach these components without performing PC surgery. IBM said it would migrate slowly to the new PC...
[July 1, 2002, 12:03]
The IBM PC
Talkback Surely the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981 is pretty significant? Without this, there's nothing from the 80s! I would have thought that this was more significant than Steve Jobs' move to Apple.
[October 9, 2009, 9:12]
Special Report: Mixed record as IBM PC turns 20
News Preoccupied with the antitrust fallout and overcompensating for long-standing monopoly allegations, people who developed the IBM PC said they didn't consider the ramifications of Microsoft, Intel or clones.
[August 11, 2001, 8:30]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
News IBM and HP are in danger of being forced out of the PC manufacturing industry by 2007, according to analyst firm Gartner. Gartner said on Monday that if profit margins and profitability drop too low, HP and IBM could be forced to cut their losses...
[November 29, 2004, 12:05]
IBM cuts ThinkPad, PC 300 prices
News IBM PC Response Centre: 0990-727272. The kick-off point is now £740 for a system with a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor and 2.5Gb hard drive. Big Blue is also scribbling over the sticker price of its high-end ThinkPad 770 IAO, reducing it by 22 per...
[January 23, 1998, 14:21]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
Talkback I read you article about PC vendors and I noticed a mistake: Apple is the only other PC manufacturer that has consistently been profitable in the past several years. Dear Sirs, Regards
[November 30, 2004, 10:38]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
Talkback They are generally the territory of hardcore graphic designers and artists only, apart from the sad people who spend all that extra money just so they can snobbily say "I've got an apple not a PC, aren't I different"
[December 1, 2004, 7:59]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
Talkback I think Kelly McNeill may be too pessimistic. Washing machine manufacturers all have access to exactly the same components, but there are still different companies making them, and competing, to some extent anyway, on grounds other than price.
[December 1, 2004, 8:42]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
Talkback Apple has been profitable with its PC business as well. The open architecture of the x86 PC business may have led to great success in the 80s 90s and early 00s but it will inevitably lead to there being only one PC manufacturer (at best) or (at...
[November 29, 2004, 16:06]
Five years ago: IBM plans first USB PC for October
News USB, a common PC-to-peripheral interface, is widely tipped to become the standard for interconnecting peripheral devices to PCs devices but has suffered from sluggish support from both software and peripheral manufacturers.
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
IBM's low-powered PC quest
News IBM is stepping up its efforts to curb computers' growing appetite for power. Overall, about 10 percent of the electricity consumed in North America goes to support information technology systems, according to a US Energy Department study cited by...
[August 7, 2002, 10:25]
IBM combination technique speeds PC chips
News Researchers at IBM have come up with a new approach to building transistors that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient chips in a few years. Silicon on insulator, a technique pioneered by IBM, was one of the first technologies developed to...
[September 9, 2003, 16:55]
