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Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division accelerated access to foreign markets while improving Lenovo's branding and technology. [26] Lenovo paid US$1.25 billion for IBM's computer business and assumed an additional US$500 million of IBM's debt. This acquisition made Lenovo the third-largest computer maker worldwide by volume. [27]
By the summer of 1993, the IBM PC Co. had divided into multiple business units itself, including Ambra Computer Corporation and the IBM Power Personal Systems Group, the former an attempt to design and market "clone" computers of IBM's own architecture and the latter responsible for IBM's PowerPC-based workstations.
December 2004 – Acquisition of the IBM PC business by Lenovo: Lenovo acquires 90% interest in IBM Personal Systems Group, 10,000 employees and $9 billion in revenue. April 3, 2006 – Web analytics provider Coremetrics acquires SurfAid Analytics, a standalone division of IBM Global Services.
The interesting part about Lenovo buying IBM's PC business that hasn't gotten much attention is that Lenovo, which is based in China, is turning over much of the management of the company to a ...
The world's largest PC manufacturer, Chinese technology company Lenovo , will pay $2 billion in cash and $300 million in stock to acquire IBM's x86 low-end server business, also known as System X.
Texas Instruments sold its laptop business to Acer in 1997. Toshiba: Japan Dynabook, Libretto, Portégé, Satellite, Satellite Pro, Qosmio, T series, Tecra: Toshiba fully exited the personal computer and laptop business in June 2020, transferring the remaining 19.9 percent shares to Sharp Corporation, which now runs the business as Dynabook Inc ...
Exited the computer business; dissolved in 2001: Canon Inc. — Japan: 1978: 1992: Spun off computer division as Canon Computer Systems: Celerity Computing — United States: 1983: 1988: Acquired by Floating Point Systems: Chicony Electronics — Taiwan: 1988: 2000: Left the computer business; still active in peripheral business: Cobalt ...
IBM sold its personal computer business to Lenovo in 2005, and its x86 server division in 2014. Compaq was acquired by HP in 2002. Fujitsu figures include Fujitsu Siemens. Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the Intel x86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs. Figures subject to revision in later ...