Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure
Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday.
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's health care push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum computing bet, and more
Today, I'm talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company.
IBM plans to cut “a low single-digit percentage” of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; IBM employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024
The company is “rebalancing” its workforce, a spokesperson told me. … Forums: r/technology : IBM to Cut Thousands of Roles in Focus on Software Growth r/Layoffs : IBM to cut thousands of jobs in fourt...
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company used AI agents to replace the work of 200+ HR employees and, as a result, hired more programmers and salespeople
The tech company promises higher total employment as it reinvests resources toward roles like software development
Sources: IBM's AI isn't up to the job to meet CEO Arvind Krishna's commitment to replace ~7,800 staff and some of the people who could fix that have been let go
Thomas Claburn / The Register :
Sources: IBM shuts its China R&D department, affecting 1,000+ employees, and plans to move some R&D functions overseas, the latest company to retreat from China
Jobs to be added in India, employees are told — IBM is shutting down its China research and development department …
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86
- In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on lessons from IBM, working with TSMC, the AMD turnaround, AI, competing with Nvidia, the gaming and PC markets, Zen chips, and more
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91
Steve Lohr / New York Times : X: @nytimes and @stevelohr . LinkedIn: Dario Gil . Forums: Slashdot X: @nytimes : Robert Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an in...
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico
unless it's your smartphone Ann Resuma / International Business Times : Google Lays Off 200 ‘Core’ Employees; Eyes Shifting Some Roles To India, Mexico Alice Nunwick / Verdict : Google lays off 200 US...