{"id":52825,"date":"2014-02-07T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52825"},"modified":"2014-02-07T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:04:41","slug":"ibm-to-drop-semiconductor-unit-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/52825\/ibm-to-drop-semiconductor-unit-next\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to drop semiconductor unit next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Corp is exploring the sale of its semiconductor business and has hired Goldman Sachs to find potential buyers, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, IBM is not committed to the idea of selling and could also seek a partner to set up a joint venture for its semiconductor operations, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes two weeks after IBM agreed to sell its low-end server business for $2.3 billion to Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>IBM was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on IBM<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to IBM rolls out African supercomputer\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/52772\/ibm-rolls-out-african-supercomputer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM rolls out African supercomputer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to IBM expands mobile strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/32060\/ibm-expands-mobile-strategy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM expands mobile strategy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to IBM tops US patent list\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/29675\/ibm-tops-us-patent-list\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM tops US patent list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to IBM outlook upbeat after strong quarter\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/30373\/ibm-outlook-upbeat-after-strong-quarter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM outlook upbeat after strong quarter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Corp is exploring the sale of its semiconductor business and has hired Goldman Sachs to find potential buyers, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,753,7414],"class_list":["post-52825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-semiconductor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52832,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52825\/revisions\/52832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}