IBM Corp (IBM), an international business machine company
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1991: IBM Information Products Corporation, its printer and keyboard manufacturing division, was spun off to Lexmark （ Lexmark ） -
In 2005 and 2014, they sold personal computers (ThinkPad/ThinkCentre) and x86 based servers to association -
2015: IBM adopted semiconductor Designed "fabless factory" mode, while transferring manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries -
2002-2020: IBM acquired PwC Consulting (2002), SPSS (2009), The Weather Company (2016), Red Hat (2019) and Nordcloud (2020), a European cloud consultant -
IBM plans to spin off its hosting infrastructure service department into a new listed company (to be named Kyndryl) at the end of 2021 with 19 billion US dollars -
In 2021, IBM announced that it would acquire American enterprise software companies with US $1.5 billion Turbonomic 。
IBM Corp History Encyclopedia of International Business Machine Company
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In 2004, IBM announced that it would sell its PC business to Lenovo Group (controlled by the Chinese government) with $650 million in cash and $600 million in Lenovo shares. The transaction was completed in May 2005. IBM owns 19% of Lenovo's equity, and Lenovo inherited the IBM Thinkpad product line. -
On February 8, 2005, the "Cell" CPU architecture jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba was released. -
On June 20, 2006, Georgia and IBM jointly announced a new technology record that the speed of silicon based chips reached 500GHz. -
In 2006, IBM became the enterprise with the largest number of patents in the United States for the 14th consecutive year, and set a new record with 3621 patents. -
In 2008, IBM President and CEO Palmisano released the concept of "Smart Earth" for the first time: the core of IBM's strategic development in the next 10 years, IBM's annual R&D investment reached $6 billion, half of which was used in the "Smart Earth" project. -
In 2009, IBM fully grasped the scientific and technological trend of "perception, interconnection and intelligence" and put forward the vision of "smart earth" and "smart city". -
On February 17, 2011, IBM's supercomputer "Watson" defeated two human champions in the old American TV program Jeopardy, known as the 21st century computer science and artificial intelligence Great breakthrough in. -
In October 2011, IBM successfully acquired Algorithmics, making it an important member of IBM Software Group. -
On November 15, 2011, Warren Buffett, the god of shares, said in an interview with CNBC that his Berkshire Hathaway company had been buying IBM shares since March 2011, and had held 64 million IBM shares, accounting for 5.4% of its outstanding share capital, with a market value of US $10.7 billion. Berkshire became one of IBM's two largest shareholders. -
On December 19, 2012, IBM announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire StoredIQ software company. -
On September 19, 2013, IBM acquired Daeja Image Systems, a British commercial software manufacturer, and intends to merge it into the software group and enterprise content management (ECM) business. -
On April 10, 2014, IBM announced that it had agreed to acquire Silvertop, a privately held cloud marketing service company. -
Lufthansa, Germany, October 22, 2014 airline company It said that as part of the company's restructuring plan, it would sell its IT infrastructure department to IBM, including the service outsourcing agreement. According to the preliminary agreement reached by both parties, Lufthansa will outsource all IT infrastructure services to IBM for a period of 7 years. At the same time, IBM took over Lufthansa's IT infrastructure department. -
On March 28, 2015, IBM acquired Blekko technology and team, a search engine start-up. -
On August 6, 2015, IBM announced that it would acquire medical imaging equipment provider Merge Healthcare at a price of $1 billion, and planned to integrate its technology into its Watson supercomputer business. -
On January 22, 2016, IBM acquired Ustream Inc., a cloud based video streaming service provider, in order to strengthen its video services for enterprise users using IBM cloud suite. -
On February 18, 2016, IBM announced that it would purchase Truven Health Analytics, a medical data company, for 2.6 billion dollars, aiming to further expand the already large-scale health insurance business. IBM's Watson Health business unit will therefore double the number of employees to 10000. Due to the decline of its core business, IBM has been investing heavily in the health insurance industry last year. -
On March 3, 2016, IBM sold all its Lenovo shares. -
On October 28, 2018, IBM said that it planned to acquire the open source software company at a price of $190 per share and a total value of about $34 billion Red Hat Company (NYSE: RHT) To build the world's largest hybrid cloud provider. Red Hat closed at $116.68 on Friday, which means the purchase price was 63% higher. -
On July 9, 2019, IBM completed the acquisition of Red Hat Company with 34 billion dollars Delisting 。 Red Hat, an open source enterprise software manufacturer, will be incorporated into IBM's hybrid cloud department, and Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat, will join IBM's senior management team and report to Ginni Rometty, the CEO of IBM. -
On October 8, 2020, International Business Machines (IBM) was being split into two independent listed companies, with its business focus shifting from traditional business to high profit cloud computing business. IBM will split its IT infrastructure service department into an independent listed subsidiary, Kyndryl, which will be completed by the end of 2021. The department provided technical support to 4600 customers in 115 countries, and the business orders to be completed reached 60 billion dollars. -
In January 2021, IBM appointed Martin Schroeter, the CFO of IBM from 2014 to the end of 2017, as Kyndryl It is expected that the company will be finally determined as an independent listed company by the end of 2021 and use a new name. -
In October 2021, IBM is promoting its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, and plans to acquire from Rego Consulting Adobe Workfront consulting department and assets. This transaction is the 17th overall acquisition of IBM and the 9th since Arvind Krishna took over as CEO of IBM in April 2020. This technology company has been investing heavily to strengthen its hybrid cloud and AI strategies and capabilities, focusing on obtaining high-value consulting services. The Rego team acquired by IBM has extensive expertise in end-to-end Workfront services, providing strategy formulation, implementation, management and support to Fortune 500 companies. -
On November 4, 2021, IBM completed Kyndryl As an independent company in the New York stock exchange Martin Schroeter served as chairman and CEO of the transaction. -
On November 30, 2021, IBM acquired SXiQ to enhance its consulting capabilities in Australia and New Zealand. -
On January 11, 2022, IBM acquired data analysis software provider Envizi at an undisclosed price. Envizi focuses on data and analysis software for sustainable development and energy. IBM has implemented Envizi to help simplify tracking and reporting on its progress, so that the company can power Procurement and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. Envizi will integrate with IBM Maximo asset management solution, IBM Sterling supply chain solution, IBM environment intelligence suite, and IBM Turbonomic and Red Hat OpenShift functions. -
On July 6, 2022, IBM announced that it had completed the acquisition of Israel's active data observability platform Databand.ai. Databand.ai Headquartered in Israel Tel Aviv. Helps organizations solve data problems, including errors, pipeline failures, and poor quality before it affects their bottom line. -
On September 22, 2022, IBM announced its plan to acquire American digital product engineering service company Dialexa. The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. Founded in 2010, Dialexa, headquartered in Texas, provides end-to-end digital product engineering services, including cross cloud platforms (including AWS and Microsoft Azure). It employs 300 product managers, designers, stack engineers and data scientists in Dallas and Chicago. -
On December 7, 2022, IBM said that it would acquire Octo from Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity firm, which is a digital transformation service provider dedicated to the U.S. federal government. -
On April 12, 2023, IBM is exploring the sale of its weather business, which may sell for more than $1 billion. -
On June 26, 2023, IBM reached an agreement to acquire software providers with US $4.6 billion Apptio Transaction. private equity firms Vista Equity Partners owns Apptio, and Vista acquired Apptio with nearly 2 billion dollars in 2019. -
In December 2023, New York State and technology giant IBM, memory manufacturer Meguiar Technologies (Micron Technology) and chip manufacturing equipment manufacturers Applied materials (Applied Materials) and Tokyo Electronics (Tokyo Electron), together, invested $10 billion in semiconductor research facilities at the State University of New York at Albany to research the next generation chip manufacturing. -
On April 23, 2024, many media reported that IBM was about to acquire Terraform creators and cloud infrastructure tool providers HashiCorp Transaction.
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