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mainframe

[meyn-freym] / ˈmeɪnˌfreɪm /
NOUN
central processing unit
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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

Sales of the z17, the company’s flagship enterprise mainframe designed for the AI age, fell short of its expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

There is a perception that IBM’s mainframe business could be threatened by AI.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

I used the code that listed Detective Barrone’s call to my father to wiggle into the Division of Detectives mainframe.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Meanwhile, IBM aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That unit was pulled down by lower-than-expected sales of data center mainframes, which fell 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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