The Secret Plan of IBM: New Microchips Explained

Timestamps:
00:00 - From Hardware to Software
07:14 - New IBM Chips Explained
09:13 - What's happening with IBM Stock

[davidcerutti]

I know and like a number of people working at IBM. So much deep research and pure science going on there, it's the sort of company you want to keep afloat, even if market forces aren't always working in its favor.

[brianrobertson]

I worked with IBM hardware and software for my whole career. I worked for them twice, once as a student and secondly as a consultant near the end of my 40 year career on the mainframe platform. It is nice to hear about recent developments there.

[retiredbitjuggler]

I had to laugh when your video showed the first IBM PC. I bought that PC the day they released it for sale in 1981 or 1982. It had an Intel 8080 processor, 512k of memory, dual floppy drives (hard drives weren’t a thing yet) and a monochrome monitor. It cost me $3, 200 back then. I eventually used it to do COBOL coding with Realia COBOL. It saved me a fortune because buying time on mainframe computers back then was unaffordable for an independent programmer. I think it took me 6 months to make my investment back. I actually upgraded the PC with an AST Sixpack + which gave it a real-time clock (the stock PC date and time had to be manually entered each time it was powered up) and increased the memory to an insane 640k of memory. I seem to remember some additional ports on that card. It is an absolute joke in today’s technology, but it was worth its weight in gold in the early 80’s. Thanks for the fond memories. 😊😊😊😊

[RetroDawn]

IBM didn't develop the first PC. They only developed the first IBM PC (which is a tautology). They weren't even close. Even with the most restrictive of definitions, the first PC was released well over 4 years prior to the release of the IBM PC. That was an extremely long time in that market. *Many* companies had released PCs before IBM.

[Indrid__Cold]

I've followed IBM for many decades. They are like the salt in the technological ocean. They go up, they go down, but their influence is undeniable.

[stevethomas]

Excellent video. I started as a computer operator in 1974 using IBM 370 145 mainframes. Always have a soft spot for IBM.

[leematthews]

I imagine younger viewers look at the footage of people using those big floppy discs feel like I do watching films from 1910 with everyone travelling around by horse and cart!

[vilijanac]

On December 11th, 1972, Q1 Corporation sold the first Q1 microcomputer, based on the Intel 8008 microprocessor.
It had the first QWERTY keyboard, printer and floppy. It was IBM that sold first computers 1957, 610 transistor and tube based processor, price tag was $55K.

[jasonelliott]

Anastasi, you're amazing. I studied chip design in high school through the Techtronix explorer scouts, and we even laid out our circuits and had them run on an empty part of a wafer. It was pretty cool for a bunch of high school kids. Sadly, I didn't go to college until I was in my mid thirties, three associates degrees, not in tech, but foreign language and business. And after being a one-man IT shop for twenty-some years, I had to give it up. But I'm looking to get back into programming (there are a couple of products that I helped design hardware for after highschool, as well as wrote the software for them). One dominates the retail glass shop management industry, and the other was hardware and software that was an early player in digital call generation and user response processing. Sadly, I didn't have stock in either company.

[greggapowell]

I've often wondered where you get the ideas for the topics that you come up with Ms Anastasia. You really conver such a great range of topics. Thank you for the time and effort you bring to the industry.

[RupanagudiRaviShankar]

From Bharat: I am 67 years old and i did my electrical engineering. I follow your channel most of the time. all the information you provide keeps my brain healthy as it jogs it for sometime. our age group is one of those lucky groups as we have seen technology evolve and made it available for use by common population. I have used slide rules, the first commercially available scientific calculator (RPN type too), card reader computers which occupied huge rooms, then table type floppy [flippy too] { 8.5 inch/ 8 inch / 3.5 inches } computers, then PCs, Laptops, pagers, first type cellphones, [now called as feature phones i guess], then smartphones and finally AI solutions. only thing i guess our generation may not use is the quantum PC !! if we can use that too literally we have quantum jumped from slides rules to quantum computing !! Regards

[professor-viewsalot]

No.
Many clones of IBM pc were manufactured & sold of course but they were NOT running windo2s.
They were running DOS.
Windows (3.1.1) didnt appear until years later.

[AdvantestInc]

This breakdown of IBM’s chip innovation is well done! The focus on accelerating AI workloads for mainframes is timely, looking forward to seeing how it plays into larger trends like edge computing.

[everettputerbaugh]

I remember when the machines in the first clips were in use, I operated some of them. IBM's streak to stardom was when WW2 broke out, IBM went to the government and asked; what can we do for the war effort. Every military had an IBM. Then when the first commercial mainframe was glitchy, they sent the engineers that designed them out to fix them, establishing the reputation of standing behind their product; reliability. It didn't help their reputation when they made a deal with Apple and then reneged.

[swisstraeng]

stocks of IBM goes up:
me: "Are they making a new thinkpad?"

[jasonelliott]

I meant to add, that your videos are great, and fun to watch. Thank you for the time you give to making them -- they really are excellent!

[theEric]

I think there’s a lot of growth potential on Linux and containerization, which runs on mainframe or LinuxONE hardware with Red Rat, so you can get real time ai and a consolidated private cloud stack, that doesn’t have the same security flaws as distributed hardware

[kjelm]

Thanks for this video. I'm retired. I no longer work in this field as an engineer. Your videos are very interesting and your explanations are clear and supported by your remarkable intelligence.

[mrmicklord]

Sorry, small correction. The UK Feranti mk 1 was the first commercial computer

[viperx]

Their hybrid cloud solutions are just the offerings they provide to companies who are too embedded within IBM's infrastructure to leave their platform. Their consulting business are the service contracts they offer to those same customers who can't leave their legacy systems.