About IBM

A trusted partner to clients that delivers meaningful impact faster.

Enables clients to leverage the full power of hybrid cloud and AI, with strong demand for open source innovation.

Unlocks greater velocity for clients to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve business outcomes.

Delivers the storage, servers and mainframe systems that build hybrid cloud foundations.

Brings together the world’s leading platform and infrastructure partners who add critical value to solutions.

With 50 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip—the most dense to date—this innovation holds the potential for greener data centers and safer autonomous vehicles.

IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeats the best chess player in the world. Thinking computers take a giant leap forward toward the kind of AI that we know and use today.

In an epic feat of engineering, IBM builds the computers and software for the Apollo missions, landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon and guiding them back to Earth.

Arthur L. Samuel programs an IBM 704 to play checkers and learn from its experience. It is considered the first demonstration of artificial intelligence.

IBM introduces the world to digital storage via magnetic tape data, marking the transition from punched-card calculators to electronic computers.

IBM punch cards become the industry standard for the next 50 years, holding nearly all of the world’s known information and enabling large-scale projects like the US Census.