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Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough by ngcc_hk on Thursday December 16, 2021 @06:58AM (#29577327)
I wonder what is percentage? Is it still a mainframe shop? Last time I heard abd it failed is to become a consultancy firm with Pwc. What is ibm now?
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Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough by agseward on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:06AM (#29579610)
IBM just spun out a $19B annual revenue managed infrastructure business, Kyndryl. [1]

Doing some back of the napkin math on the remaining business, by revenue it is roughly 45% consulting, 40% software, and 15% hardware. IP revenue represents 1% ($626M) of its revenue. [2]

What does it actually do? At a high level, help companies deal with the complexities created in a world of heterogeneous infrastructure (data and AI across environments, common management/security, automation, etc.).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl-officially-launche...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM_Annual_Report_2020....

Disclaimer: I'm an IBM employee, but my opinions are my own and I'm just using public data.

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Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough by jccooper on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:00AM (#29578786)
I don't know the numbers, but I do know they still do significant work in mainframes. They're even still designing their own Power processors for them.
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Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough by agseward on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:27AM (#29579099)
Just a point of clarification, POWER and z (mainframe) are different architectures, both of which IBM still develops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

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