International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) new york Stock Exchange: IBM, headquartered in Armonk, new york. When the company was founded, its main business was commercial typewriters, and later it switched to word processors, and then computers and related services. ? As a long-term leader in the computer industry, IBM has made the most remarkable achievements in mainframe/minicomputer and ThinkPad. The personal computer (PC) standard it founded is still in use and development. IBM has also made great achievements in materials, chemistry, physics and other scientific fields. Hard disk technology was invented by IBM, and scanning tunneling microscope (STM), copper wire technology and atomic etching technology were also invented by IBM Research Institute.
IBM China includes CSDL, IBM China Software Development Center. In 2004, it cooperated with Cultural Communication Group to promote China CPU cash register. On February 8th of the same year, 65,438, Lenovo Group, which accounts for nearly one-third of the personal computer market in China, announced that it would acquire IBM's global desktop and notebook computer production and sales business for125 billion dollars in cash and stock. In 2005, the desktop computer and notebook computer business were sold to China IT enterprise Lenovo Group, and Lenovo will still use the IBM brand in five years. ThinkPad and ThinkCentre brands are owned by Lenovo Group.
2011February 17, IBM's supercomputer "Watson" appeared on the American veteran quiz TV show "Jeopardy! ) defeated two human champions and was hailed as a major breakthrough in computer science and artificial intelligence in the 2 1 century.
In October, 2065438+200465438+/kloc-0, IBM agreed to sell the x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion.
On August 2065438+2004 1 1, IBM announced the acquisition of Lighthouse (Lighthouse Security Group, LLC), a cloud security service provider. IBM did not disclose the details of the acquisition.
2065438+On August 6th, 2005, IBM announced the acquisition of Merge Healthcare, a provider of medical imaging and clinical systems, for US$ 1 billion, and merged it with its Watson Health Department to integrate the data and images of Merge Healthcare's medical imaging management platform with the image analysis business of its Watson computing platform.
20 15, 10/28 October, IBM announced the acquisition of weather company B2B data service, which will consolidate its layout in the field of internet of things.
On 2065438+200665438+1October 2 1 day, IBM announced the acquisition of online video live broadcast service provider Ustream and the establishment of "cloud video service business". It is reported that the amount of this merger is $65.438+$300 million, but this amount has not been confirmed by IBM.
2065 438+06 02 19, IBM spent $2.6 billion to acquire Truven, a health analysis company.