mainframe
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IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
When delivering its profit warning last week, IBM pointed to recent challenges in its mainframe business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Kavanaugh said that despite the rough quarter, IBM’s mainframe business should grow in the second half of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” James told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
“But hacking into the mainframe is. It’s not our fault MI6 doesn’t know where it is.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Meanwhile, IBM aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
IBM lowered its growth outlook after sales of data center mainframes sank 42%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
However, Morningstar’s Yang explained that mainframes fall into a different class of hardware and process different workloads than hyperscaler servers do, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The infrastructure division, which includes IBM’s mainframes, reported revenue of $3.3 billion, which was just ahead of the $3.1 billion FactSet consensus and represented growth of 15% from the previous year.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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