IBM’s reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue, with 15.7 ...

IBM has announced the sale of Big Blue's x86 server division to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, thus terminating IBM's long-running relationship (and one-time rivalry) with Intel and freeing the company ...

Lenovo is paying $2.1 billion for IBM's x86 server business. Here are the winners and the losers. The winners: Lenovo and IBM This deal, where Lenovo will pay IBM $2.1 billion for the x86 portion of ...

Lenovo, which during the past nine years has leveraged its acquisition of IBM’s PC business to become the world’s top vendor in that market, is now buying Big Blue’s low-end x86 server unit for $2.3 ...

The $2.1 billion deal ups Lenovo's enterprise offerings, as it takes the No. 3 spot in the x86 server market behind HP and Dell. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

IBM sold off its x86 server business two years ago to Lenovo, thinking it was exiting a cut-throat, low-margin business. But the cloud has only intensified x86 server chip sales, and IBM is paying ...

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Lenovo's plan to buy IBM's x86 server business is facing delays over national security concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that US security officials and members of the Committee on Foreign ...

Susan Whitney, the executive who for six years has overseen IBM's attempt to bring some brawn to x86 servers, is retiring. Whitney, 56, was replaced Thursday by Rich Hume, formerly general manager of ...

IBM on Tuesday used the CeBIT trade show in Germany to unveil its new eX5 line of servers which allows memory to scale to up to four times that of existing servers, said Roland Hagan, vice president ...

IBM sold off its x86 server business two years ago to Lenovo, thinking it was exiting a cut-throat, low-margin business. But the cloud has only intensified x86 server chip sales, and IBM is paying ...