mainframe
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The tech industry might have abandoned powerful-but-specialized mainframe computers and shifted to the cloud, but IBM’s customers—what you might call the “real” economy—still lean heavily on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Krishna said the launch of the company’s z17 mainframe and the associated software stack in the second quarter ended up being “worse than our expectations” for infrastructure revenue to fall in the low-single-digit range.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
They include a nugget from the California gold rush; an 1879 lightbulb by Thomas Edison; a mainframe component from ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer that was built in 1946 and weighed 30 tons.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
If they could find that, Sinclair Scientifica’s mainframe would be within reach.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Much of IBM’s revenue is tied to its data center business, where it sells servers known as mainframes to enterprise customers such as financial-services firms and retailers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
However, Morningstar’s Yang explained that mainframes fall into a different class of hardware and process different workloads than hyperscaler servers do, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Moreover, IBM’s software business drives demand for its consulting services and mainframes, creating a powerful growth cycle that Wall Street is overlooking, Essex contended.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Before the mid-1970s, computers were hulking mainframes housed in climate-controlled rooms, accessible mainly to governments and large corporations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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