Hacker News with Generative AI: IBM

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business (theregister.com)
Kyndryl, the managed infrastructure services business spun out of IBM in 2021, earlier this month repeated its somewhat glum prediction that its revenue will shrink by two to four percent for its fiscal 2025, the year ending March 31.

Business, Technology, IBM, Kyndryl

11 points by rntn 19 hours ago | 2 comments

IBM Research's AIU family of chips (research.ibm.com)
IBM Research’s AIU family of prototype chip designs point the way to a future where AI computation is more efficient, less power hungry, and more capable.

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, IBM, Research, Chips

11 points by sandwichsphinx 2 days ago | 0 comments

IBM's mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls (theregister.com)
In its last few quarterly results announcements, IBM has trumpeted unexpectedly strong growth in its mainframe business, and that's helped the technology titan to just-about deliver promised mid-single-digit revenue growth in constant currency. But in its Q3 results announcement on Wednesday, Big Blue revealed mainframe revenue fell 19 percent – and that overall growth came in at just one percent or two percent in constant currency.

IBM, Mainframes, Business, Technology, Finance

5 points by belter 23 days ago | 0 comments

The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of (2022) (blogspot.com)
Say hello to the RISC ThinkPad that's not a ThinkPad, the IBM WorkPad z50.

Hardware, Retro Computing, IBM, ThinkPad

90 points by rbanffy 25 days ago | 28 comments

IBM's Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay for Itself by Early Next Year (nextplatform.com)
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025.

Acquisitions, Business, Technology, IBM, Red Hat

35 points by rbanffy 27 days ago | 2 comments

The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Any article about IBM’s big mainframe hardware waxes lyrical about the ‘good-old days’ of multi-generational backwards compatible processing that props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing.

IBM, Hardware, Mainframes, Business, Technology

84 points by rbanffy 37 days ago | 49 comments

IBM and NASA Release OS Model for Weather and Climate Applications (newsroom.ibm.com)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new AI foundation model for a variety of weather and climate use cases, available in open-source to the scientific, developer, and business communities.

Artificial Intelligence, Weather, Climate, Open Source, IBM

18 points by osanseviero 59 days ago | 2 comments

IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says (theregister.com)
IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said.

IBM, Layoffs, Technology, Business

89 points by LinuxBender 64 days ago | 105 comments

IBM Pushing Apache2 License onto all qiskit repositories on GitHub (ycombinator.com)

Open Source, Software, Licensing, IBM, Quantum Computing

18 points by spicywasabi 76 days ago | 4 comments

IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics (pncnmnp.github.io)

IBM, History, Technology, Olympics

95 points by pncnmnp 79 days ago | 16 comments

IBM is the latest Western firm to retreat from China (cnn.com)

IBM, China, Business, International Relations

14 points by testrun 83 days ago | 0 comments

IBM Shuts China R&D Operations in Latest Retreat by U.S. Companies (wsj.com)