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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.
April 2012 – IBM sells its Retail Store Solutions division (Point-of-Sales) to Toshiba TEC [222] January 2014 – IBM sells its IBM System x business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion. [223] October 2014 – IBM sells its Microelectronics (semiconductor) branch to GlobalFoundries. IBM will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion over 3 years to take over ...
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]
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 ...
Inventec sells to HP, Dell, and Lenovo; Pegatron (in 2010, Asus spun off Pegatron) sells to Asus, Apple, Dell, Acer, and Microsoft; Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP, and Apple; Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP; Clevo and Tongfang sell to different laptop manufacturers like Digital Storm, Eluktronics ...
Computer desktops United States — [5] 5 November 14, 2006: ACS Information technology United Kingdom — [6] 6 July 18, 2007: SilverBack Technologies, Inc. [note 1] Network monitoring United States — [7] 7 November 12, 2007: ASAP Software Express [note 2] Information technology United States $ 340,000,000 [8] 8 December 20, 2007: Everdream ...
Breaking off Chrome would be a substantial blow to the tech titan's Google Services branch, which makes most of its money through advertising. Business Insider previously reported Google's total ...
On August 12, 1981, IBM released the IBM Personal Computer. [10] One of the most far-reaching decisions made for IBM PC was to use an open architecture, [11] leading to a large market for third party add-in boards and applications; but finally also to many competitors all creating "IBM-compatible" machines.