IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business 195
jfruh writes "Having already gotten out of the low-end server market, IBM appears to be trying to get out of the chip business as well. The company currently manufactures Power Architecture chips for its own use and for other customers. Big Blue wants to sell off its manufacturing operations, but will continue to design its own chips."
Re:What's left? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That's a surprise move (Score:5, Informative)
Have they recently acquired new executives that are hellbent on selling absolutely everything that isn't mainframes and $$$$$/hour consultants?
Yes, their previous CEO made a stupid goal of $20 operating EPS by 2015 [ibm.com] and the new CEO seems to be hell bent on hitting that target, whether that's from an incentive program or ego talking I'm not sure.
Re:But wait, there's more (Score:4, Informative)
IBM knew precisely what Hollerith was doing
Hollerith wasn't involved in that - he died in 1929. Otherwise you're spot on. Hollerith worked on punch cards and tabulating machines, and his stuff was used in the 1890 US census. The Hollerith code bore his name though, and that's what was tattooed on death camp prisoners.