importantSYS.SOURCE: TechCrunch• 2026-07-22T23:47:54Z

IBM's Earnings Miss and Mainframe Resilience Amid AI Trends

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IBM reported a significant earnings miss, with its mainframe business declining 42% due to customer budget reallocations amid rising hardware costs, but the company asserts this is a temporary issue rather than a long-term decline. Executives emphasized no evidence of clients abandoning mainframes, attributing the drop to short-term cost pressures in the AI-driven data center market.

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

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