Armonk, N.Y. - 01 Sep 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced details of the world's fastest computer chip -- the microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe that begins shipping to customers ...

Every new IBM mainframe says something about the times we live in, and today’s latest mainframe release is no different. The zEnterprise system, as it is now called, has become a cross-platform ...

IBM is claiming that their new 5.2GHz z196 processor is the worlds fastest processor. Of course we have seen consumer processors reach greater speeds, although this usually involves a serious amount ...

Don't blink -- if you do, you may miss IBM's new processor. The company is boldly claiming that the chip within IBM's new zEnterprise clocks in at 5.2GHz, making it the world's fastest microprocessor.

IBM seems very proud of its latest “hybrid” mainframe-cum-blade-server, the zEnterprise 196. Big blue hopes the greener, 50,000-MIPS z196 will reverse the slowdown in its big-iron sales. In IT ...

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has shipped the first two generally available IBM zEnterprise 196 mainframe systems to Swiss Re, one of the world's ...

ALBANY -- IBM Corp., which has major research operations in Albany, says its new mainframe computer unveiled in July contains the world's fastest computer chip. The chip, known as the z196, is used to ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Primerica (NYSE:PRI), the largest independent financial services marketing company in North America with more than 2.4 million client accounts, has selected the ...

IBM unveiled details Wednesday about its new advanced chips, which the company says can process information at record-breaking speeds far faster than those in ordinary desktop computers. The ...

IBM has announced what it claims is the world's fastest microprocessor chip. The z196 is an enterprise grade quad-core part that boasts 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter surface and ...

Now we will get to find out, in the next few quarters or so, if the mainframe business still has some legs and can grow or the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 has permanently knocked it down a peg or ...