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In September 1992, IBM combined and spun off their various non-mainframe and non-midrange, personal computer manufacturing divisions into an autonomous wholly owned subsidiary known as the IBM Personal Computer Company (IBM PC Co.).
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Cancan Chu/Getty Images By Paul Carsten and Soham Chatterjee BEIJING -- Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd agreed to buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion in what is set to be China's ...
ThinkPad is a line of business-oriented laptop and tablet computers produced since 1992. The early models were designed, developed and marketed by International Business Machines (IBM) until it sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005; since 2007, all new ThinkPad models have been branded Lenovo instead [5] and the Chinese manufacturer has continued to develop and sell ThinkPads to the present day.
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.
IBM: United States PC Convertible, PCradio, PS/2 Model CL57 SX, PS/2 Model L40 SX, PS/note, PS/2 Note, PS/55 Note, Palm Top PC 110, WorkPad Z50: IBM sold its personal computer and Intel-based server businesses to Lenovo in 2005. NEC: Japan LaVie, MultiSpeed, ProSpeed, UltraLite, Versa: Olivetti: Italy Echos, M10, Philos, Olibook, Quaderno ...