Established in 19 1 1 year.

Headquartered in Armonk, new york.

Samuel Peng Mingsheng, Chairman and CEO.

On-demand business slogan

Industrial computer hardware+computer software

Product IT services, industry solutions, servers, other computer hardware, etc.

The turnover was 96.29 billion USD (2004)

The number of employees is 310.9 million.

Www.ibm.com website

International Business Machines Corporation, new york Stock Exchange: IBM, headquartered in Armonk, new york. When the company was founded, its main business was commercial typewriters, and later it switched to word processors, and then computers and related services.

The current CEO of IBM is Samuel Palmisano.

As a long-term leader in the computer industry, IBM has made the most remarkable achievements in mainframes/minicomputers and ThinkPad. The personal computer (PC) standard it founded is still in use and development. On February 8, 2004, 65438 sold its PC division to Lenovo for $ 1.75 billion, and held shares in Lenovo.

IBM has also made great achievements in materials, chemistry, physics and other scientific fields. Hard disk technology was invented by IBM, and scanning tunneling microscope (STM), copper wire technology and atomic etching technology were also invented by IBM Research Institute.

In 2003, IBM earned $896,543.8 billion and had 230,000 full-time employees.

IBM China includes: IBM China Research Institute (CRL) and IBM China Software Development Center (CSDL).

In 2004, we cooperated with Hong Kong Cultural Communication Group to promote China CPU cash register.

On February 8th of the same year, 65,438, Lenovo Group, which accounts for nearly one-third of the personal computer market in China, announced that it would acquire IBM's global desktop and notebook computer production and sales business for125 billion dollars in cash and stock.

In 2005, the desktop computer and notebook computer business were sold to China IT enterprise Lenovo Group, and Lenovo will still use the IBM brand in five years. ThinkPad and ThinkCentre brands are owned by Lenovo Group.

IBM China Limited is headquartered in Beijing, with branches in Xi, Shenyang, Jinan, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu.