The $2.1 billion deal ups Lenovo's enterprise offerings, as it takes the No. 3 spot in the x86 server market behind HP and Dell. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

IBM’s reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue, with 15.7 ...

Shipments of servers powered by x86 processors will not grow as fast as previously forecast, but x86 will remain the dominant chip design, IDC said in a report Tuesday. The market researcher has ...

IBM has announced the sale of Big Blue's x86 server division to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, thus terminating IBM's long-running relationship (and one-time rivalry) with Intel and freeing the company ...

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But what is going to happen this year? The odds are that spending on servers as well as on the switching and storage that follows it in the datacenter, is going to cool a bit but still grow. But if ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inspur Information, a leading IT infrastructure solutions provider, today announced it was ranked among the top three x86 server vendors worldwide in the IDC ...

Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei reportedly is looking to sell its x86 server business due to U.S. sanctions that are hindering its server market capabilities. China-based technology ...

I wrote about server appliances last week, and observed in passing that Rebel.com and Cobalt, both purveyors of Linux-based boxes, had switched from embedded RISC processors to x86-compatible chips in ...