Real fun starts for Lenovo in IBM x86 sale

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Clearing the deal was the start of a longer row to hoe in servers at the vendor, notes Larry Walsh

IBM's sale of its x86 server unit to Lenovo was really a question of when, not if, it would clear regulatory approval. Now the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US has signed off on the deal, ...

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