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[florenceorbis] 12/11/2022 12:08

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Date November 16, 2022

Time
11:45 AM ET

Location New York, NY US

Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has a keynote discussion at the 2022 RBC Capital Markets Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference.

[grupo guitarlumber] 19/7/2022 07:23

IBM Second-Quarter Earnings Advance on 9% Sales Growth


The tech company said shutting down Russian operations and a strong dollar weighed on results.

[grupo guitarlumber] 14/12/2021 11:26

ALBANY, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Samsung Electronics jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85 percent compared to a scaled fin field-effect transistor (finFET)1. The global semiconductor shortage has highlighted the critical role of investment in chip research and development and the importance of chips in everything from computing, to appliances, to communication devices, transportation systems, and critical infrastructure.

VTFET (Vertical-Transport Nanosheet Field Effect Transistor) wafer. Photo credit: Connie Zhou for IBM.

The two companies' semiconductor innovation was produced at the Albany Nanotech Complex in Albany, NY, where research scientists work in close collaboration with public and private sector partners to push the boundaries of logic scaling and semiconductor capabilities.

This collaborative approach to innovation makes the Albany Nanotech Complex a world-leading ecosystem for semiconductor research and creates a strong innovation pipeline, helping to address manufacturing demands and accelerate the growth of the global chip industry.

The new vertical transistor breakthrough could help the semiconductor industry continue its relentless journey to deliver significant improvements, including:

Potential device architecture that enables semiconductor device scaling to continue beyond nanosheet.
Cell phone batteries that could go over a week without being charged, instead of days.
Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.
Continued expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and edge devices with lower energy needs, allowing them to operate in more diverse environments like ocean buoys, autonomous vehicles, and spacecraft.

"Today's technology announcement is about challenging convention and rethinking how we continue to advance society and deliver new innovations that improve life, business and reduce our environmental impact," Dr. Mukesh Khare, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Systems, IBM Research. "Given the constraints the industry is currently facing along multiple fronts, IBM and Samsung are demonstrating our commitment to joint innovation in semiconductor design and a shared pursuit of what we call 'hard tech.'"

Moore's Law, the principle that the number of transistors incorporated in a densely populated IC chip will approximately double every two years, is quickly nearing what are considered insurmountable barriers. Simply put, as more and more transistors are crammed into a finite area, engineers are running out of space.

Historically, transistors have been built to lie flat upon the surface of a semiconductor, with the electric current flowing laterally, or side-to-side, through them. With new Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors, or VTFET, IBM and Samsung have successfully implemented transistors that are built perpendicular to the surface of the chip with a vertical, or up-and-down, current flow.

The VTFET process addresses many barriers to performance and limitations to extend Moore's Law as chip designers attempt to pack more transistors into a fixed space. It also influences the contact points for the transistors, allowing for greater current flow with less wasted energy. Overall, the new design aims to deliver a two times improvement in performance or an 85 percent reduction in energy use as compared to scaled finFET alternatives1.

Recently, IBM announced the 2 nm chip technology breakthrough which will allow a chip to fit up to 50 billion transistors in a space the size of a fingernail. VTFET innovation focuses on a whole new dimension, which offers a pathway to the continuation of Moore's Law.

Innovation at the Albany Nanotech Complex is often directed towards commercialization, and on that end of the chip lifecycle today the companies also announced that Samsung will manufacture IBM's chips at the 5 nm node. These chips are anticipated to be used in IBM's own server platforms. This follows the announcement in 2018 that Samsung would manufacture IBM's 7 nm chips, which became available in the IBM Power10 family of servers earlier this year. The IBM Telum processor, also revealed earlier this year, is similarly manufactured by Samsung using IBM's designs.

IBM's legacy of semiconductor breakthroughs also includes the first implementation of 7 nm and 5 nm process technologies, High-k metal gate technology, channel SiGe transistors, single cell DRAM, the Dennard Scaling Laws, chemically amplified photoresists, copper interconnect wiring, Silicon on Insulator technology, multi core microprocessors, embedded DRAM, and 3D chip stacking.

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1 VTFET nanosheet and scaled FinFET device simulation results are compared at the same footprint and at an aggressive sub-45nm gate pitch. VTFET nanosheets provides ~ 2X performance of the scaled FinFET at equivalent power due to VTFET maintaining good electrostatics and parasitics while FinFET performance is impacted by severe scaling constraints. Or VTFET could provide as much as 85% power reduction compared to the scaled FinFET architecture as compared at an equivalent frequency on the extrapolated power-performance curves.



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[waldron] 06/12/2021 05:15

Evercore ISI Resumes Coverage of International Business Machines With In Line Rating, $125 Price Target

12/02/2021 | 02:47pm GMT



(MT Newswires) -- International Business Machines (IBM) has an average rating of outperform and price targets ranging from $119 to $172, according to analysts polled by Capital IQ.

[waldron] 06/12/2021 05:13

Consensus

Mean consensus OUTPERFORM

Number of Analysts 17

Last Close Price 118,84 $

Average target price 145,39 $
Spread / Average Target 22,3%

High Price Target 170,00 $
Spread / Highest target 43,0%

Low Price Target 119,00 $
Spread / Lowest Target 0,13%

[adrian j boris] 27/11/2021 06:53

IBM Is Finally Growing Again. And the Stock Is One of Tech’s Biggest Bargains.

By Eric J. Savitz
Nov. 26, 2021 4:00 am ET



Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM’s Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., is thinking big once again.


A decade ago, IBM pulled off one of the greatest coups in the history of public relations. The company’s artificial intelligence platform, known as Watson, went on Jeopardy! and, over three episodes, crushed the quiz show legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, all in front of the program’s largest TV audience in years. “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords,” Jennings, who once won 74 Jeopardy! games in a row, wrote below one of his Final Jeopardy answers.

The stunt turned Watson into a household name, and raised expectations...

[gibbs1] 07/11/2021 08:24

IBM Completes Separation of Kyndryl
11/04/2021 | 09:53pm GMT


On November 3, 2021, IBM completed the separation of Kyndryl into an independent publicly traded company. Today, IBM is filing an 8-K, as required by the SEC, which provides historical pro forma financial statements for IBM.

This article is one of a series IBM is posting to help investors better understand its historical profile and reporting implications post-separation. It builds upon the information included in the investor article posted on September 28, 2021.

In conjunction with today's 8-K filing, IBM is providing:

a view of IBM's 2020 net income baseline, consistent with the revenue and free cash flow baseline previously discussed,
an updated schedule of future investor communications, including plans to provide additional information on fourth quarter discontinued operations.

IBM Historical Net Income Considerations

As IBM previously stated, in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Kyndryl's historical financial results will now be reported as discontinued operations within IBM's consolidated financial reporting.

As a reminder, IBM discontinued operations does not include historical intercompany transactions between IBM and Kyndryl, which were previously eliminated in consolidation. It also does not include the spending for shared services (e.g., finance, marketing, human resources, tax, legal, global sales coverage) that has already been transferred to Kyndryl. Therefore, IBM's historical recast of continuing operations does not represent its go-forward continuing operations profile.

As shown in today's 8-K, IBM's 2020 continuing operations (GAAP) net income is $3.9 billion. Adjusting for the above referenced items, as well as other smaller items, results in continuing operations net income baseline of $5.6 billion, or a continuing operations operating (non-GAAP) net income baseline of $7.7 billion. For perspective, these include significant charges for structural actions taken in fourth quarter 2020. Given these charges were taken at year end, they did not impact free cash flow in the period.

Future communications

IBM intends to provide additional information on fourth quarter 2021 discontinued operations later in November. This will allow investors and analysts to align their expectations to the company's continuing operations reporting basis ahead of its earnings report in January.

Further, IBM expects to provide a view of its 2020 and year-to-date 2021 quarterly historical results on a continuing operations basis by the end of the year to facilitate an update to detailed historical models.

To help investors understand the growth dynamics after the separation, IBM intends to provide insight into the revenue growth contribution from the incremental Kyndryl external sales during its earnings reporting for the first year after separation.

Additional information can be found on IBM's Investor Relations website (www.ibm.com/investor).

[florenceorbis] 02/6/2021 10:40

International Business Machines : IBM to Build Government Cybersecurity Center in Washington, DC
06/02/2021 | 11:36am BST


(MT Newswires) -- IBM (IBM) said Wednesday it is building a government cybersecurity center in Washington, DC to help federal agencies address current and future cybersecurity threats.

The facility will be used to conduct workshops focused on priorities such as zero trust frameworks and cloud security. It will also provide access to IBM Research labs to collaborate around the future of encryption.

Price: 144.19, Change: +0.45, Percent Change: +0.31

[energeticbacker] 12/2/2021 10:04

IBM has been found wanting in the technology stakes and disappointed investors for years, so much so that investing in IBM has represented a classic ‘value trap’.

All the same, with a new, more forward thinking CEO at the helm, Investor's Champion thinks ‘Big Blue’ is starting to look interesting again, for all the right reasons, as their latest research reveals.

[la forge] 02/2/2021 22:46

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[florenceorbis] 25/1/2021 11:00

Shares of technology companies fell after disappointing earnings from two old-school tech giants.

Shares of Intel tumbled after the chip maker appeared to drag its heels on previously divulged plans to outsource some of its semiconductor manufacturing, a move investors expect will boost profitability.

Shares of computer-services stalwart International Business Machines fell after it posted another decline in quarterly sales, as diminishing revenue continues to dog the company.

Online retailer Amazon.com is seeking to postpone a unionization vote at a warehouse in Alabama and is asking federal labor authorities to reconsider a decision to allow mail-in voting due to the pandemic.

Write to Rob Curran at [e-mail]

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[florenceorbis] 25/1/2021 10:57

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a technology company. The Company operates through five segments: Cloud & Cognitive Software, Global Business Services, Global Technology Services, Systems and Global Financing. The Cloud & Cognitive Software Solutions segment delivers integrated and secure cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to its clients. It comprises three business areas: cognitive applications, cloud & data platforms, and transaction processing platforms. Global Business Services segment provides consulting, business process and application management services. Its Global Technology Services segment provides information technology (IT) infrastructure and platform services. The Systems segment provides infrastructure platforms to help meet the requirements of multi-cloud and enterprise AI workloads. Its Global Financing segment is engaged in financing, which is primarily conducted through IBM Credit LLC, and remanufacturing and remarketing.

[mill5ey] 21/12/2018 11:14

gotta be a solid buy at that price, being dragged down by external circumstances

[eriktherock] 13/5/2017 18:09

Long CFD @150 USD

[essentialinvestor] 15/11/2015 13:30

Over 2 years since the last post here.

Any one consider on a longer tern view that IBM is beginning to look
interesting around these levels?.

[waldron] 21/4/2013 06:00

UPDATE: IBM Shares Post Biggest Drop in 8 Years After Weak Earnings
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By George Stahl and Drew FitzGerald
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) shares posted their biggest one-day percentage drop in eight years Friday, after a disappointing first-quarter earnings report raised doubts about the company's growth prospects this year.
The Armonk, N.Y., company's earnings--excluding certain exceptional costs--rose 8% in the first quarter, below the double-digit percentage increase investors have grown to expect. IBM pointed to contracts slipping from the first quarter into the second quarter, possibly because of the early Easter; a slowdown in business spending in China; and the weakening yen.
Morgan Stanley called the results "surprisingly weak for a company that rarely misses."
"With a long list of reasons--Easter, China, yen to name a few--we think investors are unlikely to give the company the benefit of the doubt that all engines will resume full speed within the year," Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said in a report to clients.
IBM Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge Thursday backed the company's 2013 per-share earnings forecast and said he expects earnings to return to double-digit growth by the fourth quarter.
Shares of IBM fell $17.15, or 8.3%, to $190. The decline produced the stock's lowest close since Dec. 28, its biggest dollar drop since October 2000 and its largest percentage decrease since April 15, 2005. The stock closed near its low for the day of $189.76.
IBM, as one of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, contributed a negative 132 points to the average's decline, and it was the reason why the Dow didn't gain as much as the other major market indexes.
In its first quarter, IBM's sales of software and server products were particularly weak, which the company blamed in part on deals not getting done in time.
"We had solid profit performance in January, but as the quarter ended, hundreds of millions of dollars of very profitable software and...mainframe deals fell short of the goal line," Mr. Loughridge said. "It's hard to imagine that we weren't affected by Easter" being in late March, instead of April.
Mr. Loughridge added that belt-tightening in the Chinese corporate sector caught IBM's management a bit offguard, though he suggested much of the blame lay with sales teams failing to close deals before the quarter ended. IBM said much of that business will show up when the company reports its next results.
Despite expectations some lost first-quarter deals will fall to the second quarter, IBM does expect to ramp up job cuts this quarter. Mr. Loughridge didn't disclose the number of layoffs, saying management hadn't yet approved final plans, but he expects to report close to $1 billion of accounting charges this year to trim its workforce--more than last year--with heavier reductions planned for the coming months outside the U.S.
Also, IBM is in advanced discussions with Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK, LNVGY) to sell part of its computer-server business, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. At issue is IBM's business of selling so-called x86 servers, the low-priced workhorses of many corporate and cloud-based data centers.
An exact sale price isn't known, WSJ reported, but one of the people said the deal could be worth billions of dollars. Mr. Loughridge declined to comment on the report.
The x86 servers were once a fast-growing and lucrative technology, but now produce the server market's lowest profit, industry analysts say.
Such a move would fit into IBM's history of aggressively shifting its business mix to areas with better growth and higher profit margins, just as it did by selling its computer business to Lenovo in 2004.
IBM doesn't break out server revenue, but Morgan Stanley estimates the x86 server business generated about $4.9 billion of the company's $15.4 billion in server sales last year.
Ms. Huberty noted the last two times IBM missed earnings also were in the first quarter, in 2002 and 2005, and were followed by restructuring actions and share underperformance. IBM shares ended up falling 36% in 2002 and 17% in 2005. Even with the losses Friday, IBM's shares are down less than 1% in 2013.
Mr. Loughridge also blamed the "significant depreciation of the yen" for the company's first-quarter results. "Our business in Japan is more heavily skewed to local services, [so] the ability to hedge cross-border cash flows is low compared to most other countries," the chief financial officer said. "This had a profit impact in the quarter."
Despite the disappointing results and stock selloff Friday, many analysts remained positive on IBM.
"We are not overly concerned as issues appear short-term in nature and results are decent in light of bigger shortfalls at" other companies that rely on business spending, such as Oracle Corp. (ORCL), said Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee.
Write to George Stahl at [e-mail] and Drew FitzGerald at [e-mail]