What IBM’s profit warning means: Hardware is ‘eating everyone’s lunch’

Artificial intelligence may have already taken a bite out of software this year, but a profit warning from IBM indicates that it’s hardware’s turn to chow down.

As companies with software-as-a-service offerings

struggle to fend off worries that AI will render their business models obsolete, investors have been piling into stocks of companies that make the hardware that is powering the tech transformation.

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  • Ramit Sethi

    Ramit Singh Sethi is an American author, entrepreneur, and media personality. He is the author of the 2009 New York Times Best Seller, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, host of the I Will Teach You To Be Rich podcast, and host of the 2023 Netflix series titled How to Get Rich.

Ramit Sethi

Ramit Singh Sethi is an American author, entrepreneur, and media personality. He is the author of the 2009 New York Times Best Seller, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, host of the I Will Teach You To Be Rich podcast, and host of the 2023 Netflix series titled How to Get Rich.