On December 5, 1995, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm”>IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world’s greatest chess players. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs”>IBM would manage to achieve its goal two years later, after a host of software and hardware revisions. In 1997, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue” data-url=”https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Deep Blue famously triumphed over an at-his-peak chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, during a rematch in New York City. The win was a turning point for IBM, who was increasingly characterized as a has-been, with a dire share price to match. It was also a…
