Hacker News with Generative AI: IBM

Fedora Seems to Be Dying of Neglect by IBM (techrights.org)
PLANET FEDORA (or "Fedora Planet") used to be very active, but this year it's even more quiet than last year, e.g. only 4 new entries from 3 people in the past 5 days (screenshot below).

Linux, Fedora, Open Source, IBM

6 points by dxs 11 days ago | 2 comments

A Computerized Approach to Manufacturing Planning (Confidential 1966 IBM Report) (archive.org)
IBM Technical Report TR 22.256: A Computerized Approach To Manufacturing Planning, by Robert Sadofsky. Published May 2nd, 1966.

Manufacturing, Computer Science, History, IBM, Research

15 points by textfiles 19 days ago | 0 comments

IBM Power – What's Next? (chipsandcheese.com)

IBM, Hardware, Future, Technology

13 points by zdw 22 days ago | 7 comments

IBM's new AI models are more powerful than anything from OpenAI or Google (zdnet.com)
IBM is zooming along with new open-source Granite Large Language Models (LLM) releases every few months. Granite 3.1 is the latest generation model, building upon the success of Granite 3.0. The model offers enhanced capabilities and performance optimized for business applications.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, IBM, Google

5 points by CrankyBear 29 days ago | 0 comments

Linux Looks to Drop Support for IBM Cell Blade Servers (phoronix.com)
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time.

Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, IBM, Legacy Technology

23 points by rbanffy 30 days ago | 0 comments

Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving (ycombinator.com)
It's amazing how software from a major company that is less than 30 years old can get lost & forgotten so fast.

Operating Systems, Software History, Preservation, IBM, OS/2

74 points by markostamcar 34 days ago | 20 comments

A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (ieee.org)
A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

Technology, History, IBM, Computers, Video

332 points by sohkamyung 36 days ago | 90 comments

Rapidus and IBM move closer to scaling out 2 nm chip production (research.ibm.com)
A new chip construction process, called selective layer reductions, is helping overcome some of the critical challenges to produce 2-nanometer transistors and beyond at scale within the decade.

Semiconductors, IBM, Chip Manufacturing, Technology

9 points by sandwichsphinx 39 days ago | 0 comments

How to Reverse Engineer a 12 EUR Intel PCIe FPGA Card IBM 98Y2610 (circuitvalley.com)
This Post is showing how to Reverse Engineer a Unknown FPGA Board which I got off Ebay.

Reverse Engineering, FPGA, Hardware, Electronics, IBM

93 points by zdw 40 days ago | 35 comments

Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995) (gunkies.org)
IBM doomed OS/2 2.0, in terms of a successful desktop system, almost from the start. The folks at Microsoft realized this; we were always amazed that so many folks at IBM didn't. I speak here not of the faceless low level drones at IBM but the senior guys who are - for the most part - pretty smart guys.

Operating Systems, History, IBM, Microsoft, Software

105 points by walterbell 43 days ago | 129 comments

IBM RISC System/6000 Family (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
IBM debuted the RISC System/6000 line in February 1990. This family of products included RISC-powered servers, workstations, and supercomputers. It was the first line of computers to make use of the POWER and PowerPC processors. (IBM developed the PowerPC chips with Apple and Motorola.) The RISC System/6000 servers were replaced by the eServer pSeries. Workstations were sold under the RISC System/6000 name until 2002.

IBM, Computer History, Technology, Servers, Workstations

67 points by rbanffy 47 days ago | 52 comments

IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100x100 performance challenge (ibm.com)
Two years ago, IBM® set an ambitious challenge for the quantum computing community: Develop quantum algorithms incorporating circuits with 100 qubits and gate depths of 100, while IBM would build a quantum computer capable of returning accurate values for those circuits in less than a day’s runtime.

Quantum Computing, IBM, Technology

22 points by EvgeniyZh 57 days ago | 12 comments

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 59 days 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

12 points by sandwichsphinx 60 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 81 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 82 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 85 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 95 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 117 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 121 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 133 days ago | 4 comments

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

IBM, History, Technology, Olympics

95 points by pncnmnp 137 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 141 days ago | 0 comments

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