Giving up a years-long fight for profits in a highly competitive part of the market for powerful networked machines, IBM has agreed to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion, the ...

Surging PC and x86 server revenues helped - two markets where Lenovo either leads the world or hopes to when its $2.3B deal for IBM's x86 business closes. Analyst Jack Narcotta of.

Like many other computing enthusiasts, I got into the home lab ecosystem after turning my old PC into a server. Once I’d gotten a taste of the virtualization nectar, I quickly switched to ...

Nine months after it was first announced, Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business is headed towards closing. Having received regulatory approval from the U.S., the European ...

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Lenovo has agreed to acquire IBM's low-end server business for $2.3bn in a move that will see 7,500 Big Blue staff move to the Chinese company. Lenovo to buy IBM's x86 server business for $2.3bn ...

COBOL, a pre-x86 coding language used mainly for legacy business applications, can now be used for a Minecraft server.

But that never happened, and the market shifted quickly after AMD introduced the first 64-bit x86 server chips in 2003. That gave AMD a competitive edge over Intel, which still was offering 32-bit ...

ARM is also seen as an alternative to Intel’s x86 server chips, which dominate data centers. The board has an AMD Opteron A1100 processor—nicknamed Seattle—with up to eight cores based on ...

HP hasn't officially said it's abandoning the rapidly fading Itanium, but by bringing x86 to its most mission-critical server line, the writing is on the wall.

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) x86 server market played host to significant on-year growth in the third quarter of 2013, according to IDC. The MEA x86 server market expanded 9.9% in volume ...