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IBM PC XT

The IBM PC XT (model 5160), where XT stands for eXtended Technology, is a personal computer IBM introduced in March 1983 as a successor to the original IBM PC.

IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is a desktop microcomputer introduced by IBM in 1981 that became the standard for PC-compatible computers.

IBM Personal Computer/AT

The IBM Personal Computer/AT, usually called the IBM PC/AT, was IBM's second-generation personal computer, released in August 1984 around a 6 MHz Intel 80286 processor.

IBM POWER9

IBM POWER9 is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor announced by IBM in December 2017 as POWER8's successor, designed for artificial intelligence and powering the Summit and Sierra supercomputers.

IBM PS/2

The IBM PS/2 is a line of personal computers launched by IBM in 1987 as the successor to the IBM PC, introducing the Micro Channel bus and VGA graphics.

IBM QRadar

IBM QRadar is a security information and event management product family that collects enterprise security events and network flows and correlates them into prioritized offenses.

IBM Quantum

IBM Quantum is IBM's full-stack quantum computing program, offering cloud access to superconducting quantum processors since 2016, the open-source Qiskit software, and a roadmap toward fault-tolerant systems.

IBM Quantum Heron

IBM Quantum Heron is a family of superconducting quantum processors released by IBM in December 2023, using tunable couplers to reduce errors nearly five-fold over its Eagle predecessor.

IBM Rational ClearCase

IBM Rational ClearCase is an enterprise version control and software configuration management system first released by Atria Software in 1992 and now sold by IBM as DevOps Code ClearCase.

IBM Research

IBM Research is IBM's research and development division, a global network of laboratories founded in 1945 as the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University.

IBM RoboRXN

IBM RoboRXN is a cloud-based autonomous chemical synthesis platform by IBM Research Europe, announced in August 2020, combining AI synthesis planning with a robot laboratory chemists access online.

IBM RS/6000

The IBM RS/6000, originally announced as the RISC System/6000, was a family of RISC-based UNIX workstations and servers introduced by IBM in February 1990, the first computer line to use the POWER architecture.

IBM RXN for Chemistry

IBM RXN for Chemistry is a free, web-based platform from IBM Research, launched in 2018, that uses artificial intelligence to predict chemical reaction products and plan retrosynthetic routes.

IBM Simon

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator, designed by IBM, was a touchscreen phone and PDA sold by BellSouth from 1994 to 1995, widely regarded as the first smartphone.

IBM System/360

The IBM System/360 is a family of mainframe computers announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, whose models shared a single instruction set, so programs ran unchanged on any model.

IBM System/370

The IBM System/370 is a mainframe computer family announced by IBM in 1970 as the successor to the System/360, introducing semiconductor main memory and, from 1972, virtual storage.

IBM System/4 Pi

The IBM System/4 Pi, also known as System 4 Pi, was a family of militarized IBM computers for aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft, derived from the System/360 mainframe.

IBM Telum

IBM Telum is a microprocessor family IBM developed for its Z mainframe and LinuxONE systems, first presented at Hot Chips in August 2021 and powering the IBM z16.

IBM TrueNorth

IBM TrueNorth is a digital neuromorphic microprocessor developed by IBM Research under DARPA's SyNAPSE program and published in 2014, implementing one million spiking neurons on 5.4 billion transistors.

IBM Watson for Oncology

IBM Watson for Oncology was a clinical decision-support system developed by IBM with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that ranked evidence-based cancer treatments, announced in 2012 and sold off by 2022.

IBM Watson Health

IBM Watson Health was an IBM business unit, launched in 2015, that applied Watson computing to healthcare data and analytics until its 2022 sale to Francisco Partners.

IBM watsonx.data

IBM watsonx.data is IBM's hybrid, open data lakehouse, part of the watsonx platform announced May 2023 and generally available July 2023. It runs Presto, Spark, OpenSearch, Cassandra, and Milvus engines over open formats such as Iceberg with built-in governance.

IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM WebSphere Application Server, known as WAS, is IBM's enterprise Java application server, first released in 1998 and split since 2012 into traditional WAS and WebSphere Liberty.

IBM Z

IBM Z, also known as System z or IBM z Systems, is IBM's family of mainframe computers for mission-critical workloads, built on the 64-bit z/Architecture introduced in 2000.

IBM z16

IBM z16 is a mainframe computer announced by IBM in 2022, built around the Telum processor, the first server-class chip with an on-chip AI accelerator.

IBMX

IBMX, also called 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, is a synthetic xanthine derivative that potently inhibits phosphodiesterases, raising cAMP and cGMP; it is widely used in cell culture and signaling research.

Ibn 'Ab Samad Qattan

Ibn 'Ab Samad Qattan, or Abu Ma'shar al-Qattan al-Tabari, was a Sunni Shafi'i scholar of Quranic reading and hadith who died in Mecca in 1085.

Ibn 'Abbas Bazzaz

Ibn 'Abbas Bazzaz, full name Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas ibn Najih al-Bazzaz al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of 10th-century Baghdad, praised as trustworthy with strong memorization.

Ibn 'Abd 'Aziz Taymi

Ibn 'Abd 'Aziz Taymi (أبو الحسن أحمد بن عبد العزيز التيمي) was a Baghdadi-born hadith scholar and musnid who settled in Egypt, dying there in 1017.

Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi

Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi (ابن عبد الهادي) was a Damascene Hanbali hadith scholar and biographer of the Mamluk period, best known for al-'Uqud al-Durriyya, the largest biography of Ibn Taymiyya.