International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), headquartered in Armonk, new york, was established in the United States in 19 14. Is the world's largest multinational company in the information industry, with more than 300,000 employees worldwide and businesses in more than 60 countries and regions. When the company was founded, its main business was commercial typewriters, and later it switched to word processors, and then computers and related services.
IBM was founded by thomas watson Sr. Later, under the leadership of his son Thomas Jr., the company began the computer age.
The current CEO of IBM is, transliterated in, and his Chinese name is Peng.
The current chairman of IBM China, namely IBM (International Business Machines Co., Ltd.) Greater China is Zhou.
As a long-term leader in the computer industry, IBM has made the most remarkable achievements in mainframes/minicomputers and ThinkPad. The personal computer (PC) standard it founded is still in use and development.
In addition, IBM also leads the industry in mainframes, supercomputers (mainly representing deep blue and blue genes), UNIX and servers.
In terms of software, IBM Software Group has integrated five major software brands, including Lotus, WebSphere, DB2, Rational and Tivoli, all of which are leaders or strong competitors in the software industry in their respective aspects.
IBM has also made great achievements in materials, chemistry, physics and other scientific fields. Hard disk technology was invented by IBM, and scanning tunneling microscope (STM), copper wire technology and atomic etching technology were also invented by IBM Research Institute.
IBM still holds the position with the most patents in the world. Since 1993, IBM has been ranked first in national patent registration for 13 years. By 2002, IBM's R&D personnel had obtained a total of 22,358 patents, which was unprecedented, far exceeding the total number of patents obtained by 1 1 enterprises in the IT industry in the United States. These IT giants of 1 1 include: HP, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Dell, etc. In 2005, IBM proposed 2946544.
In 2003, IBM's total revenue was $8.9/kloc-0.0 billion, and it had 230,000 employees worldwide.
In 2004, IBM's total revenue was $96.5 billion, and its global employees were 365,438+00,000.
In 2005, IBM's total revenue was $965,438 +0 1 billion (after the PC division was sold to Lenovo).
IBM China includes:
IBM China Development Center and IBM China Software Development Center CSDL /cdl/
IBM China Research Institute (formerly IBM China Research Center) CRL:/IBM/CRL
IBM China Website
In 2004, we cooperated with Hong Kong Cultural Communication Group to promote China CPU cash register.
The IBM software part consists of five parts.
DB2、Webshpere、Tivoli、Rational、Lotus
Company news:
From June 5438 to February 2004, IBM sold its global PC and notebook business to Lenovo. Lenovo owns ThinkPad and ThinkCenter trademarks and can use the IBM brand within five years.