According to Bloomberg, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said it would cut about 1.5% of its global workforce, which would be about 3,900 people. Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh said the company remains “committed to hiring for customer-focused research and development.” Layoffs related to the spin-off of Kyndryl’s business and...
Scientists from IBM were able to assemble the largest Osprey quantum computer from 433 superconducting qubits, wrote the NewScientist resource. This is more than three times the size of the company’s previous record of 127 qubits and more than eight times the size of Google’s 53-qubit Sycamore computer. The number...
IBM and Samsung Electronics have jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor technology based on a new vertical transistor architecture that paves the way for scalability beyond the nanoscale and has the potential to significantly reduce power consumption when compared to FinFETs. Moore’s Law, according to which the number of transistors...
The company intends to release a processor covering more than 1,000 cubits in 2023. IBM company overcame a major obstacle to the usefulness of quantum computing with the development of the Eagle quantum processor with 127 functional qubits. Thus, IBM became the first company to break the 100-qubit mark, which...
The desktop and mobile computing industry would never have been the same if IBM hadn’t released the first personal PC. It happened 40 years ago – on August 12, 1981. The first personal computer in history was the IBM 5150. The mass of the “unit” (and you can’t put it...
IBM has released a report for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 and for the full year. During the quarter, it generated $ 20.4 billion in revenue. In annual terms, this indicator decreased by 6% (even by 8%, adjusted for changes in exchange rates and sold businesses). The authors of...
