IBM restarts transfer low-end server business Dell or Lenovo Scramble

[Guide] including the transfer of personal computer business, IBM has been abandoning low-margin business, the transfer of x86 servers in line with IBM's long-term transformation strategy. Tencent Science and technology in the first half of January 20, Lenovo Group has negotiated with IBM, plans to acquire the other side of the x86 server (low-end server) business, but because of the price talks failed. U.S. authoritative media January 19 quoted the source as saying, IBM has again considered the transfer of low-end server business, Lenovo will be another bid is unknown. Dell is one of the bidders for IBM's low-end server business, a source said, but it is unclear how much of Dell's bid will be determined. Including the transfer of PCs, IBM has been abandoning low-margin businesses, and transferring x86 servers in line with IBM's long-term transition strategy. IBM will also retain important high-end UNIX server assets. By revenue, Dell is the world's third-largest server provider, after IBM and HP. While low-end servers are not profitable, they are growth, and Dell has decided to fade out of the computer market and turn to the corporate server and software services market after it has retired. According to sources, last year's negotiations between IBM and Lenovo Group failed because of price differences, allegedly, Lenovo Group for IBM's x86 server business, valued at 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, did not meet IBM's expectations. It is unclear whether Lenovo will continue to bid. In addition, under the tide of mobile equipment, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other computer manufacturers are facing severe transformation pressure, the enterprise market becomes a transformation direction, it is not clear whether there will be other vendors, competing for IBM's low-end server business. IBM did not deliver the x86 server business, and Morgan Stanley forecast that it would contribute 4.9 billion dollars in 2012, accounting for about One-third of the company's total server revenue of 15.4 billion dollars. x86 server market in the 1990 's ushered in high-speed growth, but as a single server processing power is more and more powerful, coupled with the rise of the cloud computing market, enterprises to buy more and more small servers, Google (micro-blog), Amazon, Microsoft and other companies are trying to persuade corporate customers, Use cloud computing to replace your own data center and computer room investment. In addition, Google and other technology companies, used to be x86 server large buyers, but now began to build their own servers, which also affected the market. Lenovo, which spent 1.25 billion dollars in 2005, acquired IBM's computer business and, by 2013, Lenovo became the world's largest computer maker. In 2013, however, the computer market recorded its biggest drop in 10%, as consumers around the world scrambled to buy smartphones and tablet products. Some analysts point out that Apple jobs to reinvent the touch-controlled smartphone and tablet, a huge market success, completely disrupted the Lenovo Group's plans, so that the PC prematurely into the sunset market. At present, "PC into Sunset" has become the industry consensus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Asus, as well as China's Taiwan PC supplyChain clusters, are considering how to get out of the PC and seek an escape.