>IBM What did go wrong? Why is no one talking about this company?

>>56233622
They stopped pandering to plebs such as yourself

they left the consumer market

Only people who make $150K+ talk about IBM these days.

AS/400 experience is probably the quickest way to fat paychecks. All the people who know how to use it are dying and retiring.

>>56233668
>AS/400
What is that?

>>56233684
What Costco uses on their computers.

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They tried hard to push their meme CPU architecture and lost.

They're still a huge fucking company with a market capital of ~150 Billion but they make money mostly from software related stuff.

>>56233764
like what? i havent heard about their software in a while

They make international business machines now

>>56233790
They do large contracts with companies like Sony and Costco.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3110628/servers/ibms-power9-chip-is-coming-and-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html

Can't say I'm surprised that /g/ universally is unaware that HotChips is going on

>>56234061
It's already DOA since it has no backwards compatibility with x86 software and uses more electricity than modern x86 ISA xeon implementations from intel.

>>56233668
Is AS/400 even relevant anymore? There's IBM i

>>56234260
Mainly in banks/hospitals. There are still some that haven't been rebooted (IPL) since the 1980s.

>>56233622
consumer electronics are for chinese patent thieves and san fran snake oil salesmen

it is no longer the place for white men in suits

You guys are aware IBM gets major US government dough, right? The Department of Energy has two massive POWER/Nvidia super computers due to come online next year which will both be 40 times faster than the current fastest Chinese supercomputer which was recently in the news?

>>56234260
My college only got Rdi last semester. My region still uses AS/400 shit everywhere. RPG is a fucked language but kinda cool in an old way.

>>56234451
Seriously, what did you dumb shits think NVLink was all about? Muh vidya games?

>>56233764
Not true, they still make plenty of hardware like supercomputers and servers.

>>56234563
But most of their income is from Services.
They are dreadful at projects. The recent census fiasco in Australia was entirely due to IBM's lack of experience in web-related stuff.

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>what went wrong?

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>TANDEM/HP Nonstop
What did go wrong?
Why is no one talking about this company?

Started with their cost reduction measures in the early 90s, they went from the premium gold-standard in consumer hardware to overpriced plastic.

They also seemed to start losing their imagination for consumer setups, and released more iterative updates instead of groundbreaking designs.

I collect a lot of IBM stuff from the 60s-80s; it's crazy how much the quality and originality dipped after.

>>56235349
Not just services, but software licenses too. Go and check what they want for say their cobol stuff. Oh sure, out of date and out of fashion language not many know that is still in use and it's several grand per year for the software for that one language. Couple that across a wide variety of software with similar prices and a lot of users who buy support contracts...

what does IBM do nowadays besides research?

>>56233622
>What did go wrong?

They sold all their consumer businesses.

Now, they're kinda fucked because companies are rapidly switching to provider-hosted services instead of buying software and hardware and paying to have them integrated in their own self-hosted systems, and IBM lacks products that can be provider-hosted and managed on behalf of their customers.

>>56233764
In the desktop. In servers and embedded world they're strong.

>>56234198
This is bait.

>>56236746
IBM sold off their Intel server business to Lenovo.

IBM only has the Power servers left.

Their embedded presence is also eroding as more and more vendors are moving to ARM Cortex-A57/72-based solutions for high-performance network appliances.

Freescale, IBM's main partner in PowerPC Alliance, has stopped making new PowerISA parts in favor of Cortex-A72-based SoCs. AMCC, another big PowerPC SoC vendor, has gone one step further and made their own custom 64-bit ARM core for network/broadcast appliances.

>>56233622
/g/ is a consumer board, and IBM no longer makes consumer and low-end business products that /g/ discusses (and can afford).

They're not dead like the thinkpad hipsters would want you to believe, they've just become like many other enterprise tech companies, still making tons of money, hardware and providing services, but all in the background.

>>56233764
PowerPC was/is a Motorola/Freescale product more than an IBM product, IBM never gave a shit about "pushing" anything on one of the most unprofitable realms of computing there is. "Real" POWER chips are not for plebeian consumer desktops, and they never will be.

>>56234260
>Is AS/400 even relevant anymore? There's IBM i
It's the same shit.

>>56236651
Why the fuck does /g/ think IBM was solely a PC company? They never made any real money off of that shit.

>>56234198
>muh x86 compatibility
don't give a fuck if this is bait, because we all know there are people on /g/ who actually believe this

these chips are not targeted at your plebeian gaming shitbox
these chips are not targeted at your plebeian server fleet
these chips are not intended to replace your existing x86-based systems for running legacy software

these chips are targeted at customers who have already been running on the platform for a decade or more
these chips are targeted at expensive systems deployed in small numbers for mission-critical jobs where a paltry $100 extra in monthly electricity costs is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions of dollars and/or lost productivity that can be caused by even a few minutes of downtime
these chips are not for you

>>56235393
underrated

>>56238042
see? now you get why they're becoming irrelevant.

>>56233622
>Why is no one talking about this company?
There are daily ThinkPad threads, and most users are talking about the IBM ThinkPads, not the Lenovo ThinkPads.