Big Blue has been working on the next-gen technology for decades, and now has major breakthroughs in its sights. We get a ...

In addition, IBM had tried a number of personal computer projects before, including the DataMaster. That experience convinced the engineers that an open approach would work better. One of those ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1981, IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched its IBM Personal Computer. Where The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. IBM PC's 40th anniversary ...

Nobody predicted the role that International Business Machines Corp.'s personal computer would have in the way people communicate, work and play when it was introduced in the summer of 1981, one of ...

One of the big decisions IBM made in creating the original IBM PC was choosing to use the Intel 8088 processor as its central processing unit (CPU). This turned out to be hugely influential in ...

IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it's been working on for more than five years. The company unveiled its Project ...

A sale of IBM's PC unit would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity. A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according ...

In some ways, the most far-reaching decision made by the team that built the IBM PC was to use an open architecture rather than one that was proprietary to IBM. That decision led to the market for add ...