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During the 2012 Common Platform technology forum, scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, California, in mid-March, IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung Electronics plan to preview their next-generation chip fabrication technologies.
The presentations held by representatives of these companies, who together form the Com... |
10 February 2012
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IBM has recently announced that it has brought a series of new enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3, including support for a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option, that is said to increase system performance by up to three times.
According to IBM, going for the IBM XIV SSD Caching option adds up to 6TB o... |
9 February 2012
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There was a report, a few days ago, saying that IBM was making processors for Advanced Micro Devices, but the Sunnyvale, California-based chip company has now denied the rumor. Though there is indeed a sort of collaboration with AMD, IBM has not made any chips for it and is not about to start doing so either. Ins... |
8 February 2012
02:38 GMT |
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AMD disclosed during a recent analyst event that the chip maker has started manufacturing processors in IBM’s foundries in a possible attempt to try to boost production of its upcoming A-Series Trinity APUs. “We win together, we have partnership in good times and in difficult times. What we are seeing ... |
6 February 2012
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This weekend seems to be a time when research advancements are being published one after another.
First there was the quantum physics-based nano loudspeaker plan and, now, IBM is revealed to have made the smallest ever carbon nanotube transistor.
About one nanometer smaller than the assumed limit of silicon transis... |
28 January 2012
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A group of investigators at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, announce the creation of the world's smallest carbon nanotube transistors, a device that measures only 9 nanometers across. That is the equivalent of 9 billionths of a meter. As the drive towards miniaturizing electronics... |
26 January 2012
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Another new report about the next Xbox console has appeared on the web, this time with rumors concerning IBM and Global Foundries, the two companies that are supposedly working on the hardware of the upcoming console, the oft-rumored Xbox 720.
The current Xbox 360 will still be around for quite some time, according ... |
25 January 2012
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It appears that IBM had a good time in 2011, even though the economy is still struggling.For the fourth quarter, it scored a net income of $5.5 billion, 4% higher than the $5.3 billion of Q4 2010. That's 4.26 billion Euro compared to 4.10 billion.Meanwhile, for the whole year, IBM's net profit went up 7%, f... |
20 January 2012
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One of the biggest issues toying with the popularity of electric vehicle is the so-called 'anxiety range,' manifested by most of the people who think about investing in a green car.
IBM plans to provide a cure, by introducing a new kind of lithium-ion battery, powerful enough to make the new generation of... |
16 January 2012
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The first four racks of NNSA’s Sequoia supercomputer have arrived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where they will stand at the heart of what is to become the 20 petaflops Sequoia based on IBM Blue Gene technology.In addition to its impressive number crunching capabilities, IBM also expects its system... |
13 January 2012
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Looks like magnetic storage, whose main representative today is the HDD segment, may not be going anywhere after all, regardless of what SSD makers say or hope. No one actually knew, until now, just how many atoms are needed to build magnetic memory structures, but IBM has just discovered. Today's hard drive ... |
13 January 2012
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Google is continuing to beef up on patents to help it protect itself from lawsuits. The company has history of not applying for too many patents while at the same time working on various technologies in various fields; Technologies that in some way or another interfere with technologies from other companies; Companie... |
4 January 2012
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Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Macintosh development team, is using Google+ to show off a photo of a young Steve Jobs flipping off the IBM logo on a street in Manhattan, NYC.
Hertzfeld writes on his Google+ account, “In memoriam for Steve Jobs as 2011 draws to a close, here's one more rare photo... |
3 January 2012
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It seems like the trio that was behind the CELL processor found inside Sony’s PlayStation 3 was reunited to develop the quad-core CPU used by the Japanese company for the PS Vita portable console.Previously believed to be fabricated by Samsung, the chip, which is marked as CXD5315GG, was revealed by a Tech Insi... |
28 December 2011
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People know, in principle, that tech products used to be a lot bigger and weaker than PCs are today, but it might be hard to gain perspective.Fortunately, there were ways of taking photos even half a century ago, so we can see for ourselves what a hard disk drive looked like.The Next Web dug up some things on the IBM... |
28 December 2011
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IBM decided it was time for its Watson supercomputer to start contributing to the wellbeing of mankind instead of just winning knowledge games.Watson showed its mettle by winning a game of Jeopardy! against two human champions.Now, servers like the ones that powered Watson during the Jeopardy! contest will help the ... |
27 December 2011
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IBM has announced just recently that the Slovak Academy of Science has chosen the company to provide a 96 teraflop supercomputer, which will become the fastest system in the country after being installed. IBM will work on this project together with local business partner DATALAN and the system will be based on IBM&r... |
21 December 2011
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We already mentioned how IBM had posted a video about its initiatives, and we even put it up here for you to check it out if you missed out on it.
We figured that, besides the whole mind-controlled phones and computers bit, the energy recycling project could use a special mention, so here we are.
IBM plans to make ... |
20 December 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Looks like IBM really wants to take the fiction out of Science Fiction and turn it into Science Fact instead.
Many people are probably familiar with the concept of technopathy, basically the ability to control technology with a thought, or a few thoughts depending on context.
It so happens that this, among other t... |
20 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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IBM is one of those multilateral companies that always work on something with long-term implications, and one project has reached prototype stage, after seven years of research and development.
Racetrack memory is something that claims to combine the assets of DRAM memory and today's hard disk drives.
This i... |
6 December 2011
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The memory market is in the ditch, so a nice breakthrough might be just what it needs to climb back up, a breakthrough like the one Micron and IBM are developing.
Technically, the idea for the new memory technology appeared some time ago.
Known as 3D memory chips, it, or they, are a something that more than one ch... |
2 December 2011
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In what probably won't surprise those versed in server industry knowledge, HP and IBM ended up taking the leading positions during the third quarter of 2011.
After somehow getting the leading role on the tablet market, HP also ended up on top in the server field, more or less tied with IBM at 29.8% share (thei... |
2 December 2011
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One would think that keeping a file in the same condition as when they were first created would forever be one of the greatest assets of personal storage, but IBM thinks it can be a disadvantage, so it got an idea.
IBM came up with an idea for a so-called”aging file system” which maintains “aged ... |
27 November 2011
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This may not be as serious as all the suicides at that Foxconn plant, but the problems in China are definitely not over, as workers going on strike will attest to.
This may be a case of a happy ending, although the agreement reached could mean a whole number of things.
About 1,000 employees from a Jingyuan Comput... |
24 November 2011
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3D processors aren't a new concept, but the sort of chips that IBM has just come up with definitely haven't been tried before.
Anyone with even the most meager understanding of electrical appliances will know that water, or any sort of liquid, can and will severely damage any electrical circuitry it spill... |
18 November 2011
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IBM may soon take back the title of world's fastest supercomputer with an upcoming Blue Gene/Q machine that, when installed, should be able to deliver almost twice the performance of today's fastest HPC system.The supercomputer, names “Sequoia,” is expected to be fully deployed in 2012 at Lawren... |
17 November 2011
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A major breakthrough could deal with the panic of electric vehicles' owner when it comes to keeping their car on the road for a longer period of time. Scientists might rely on nanotechnology to innovate the battery, in order to allow an average hybrid to reach its destination within the next 500 miles, after jus... |
9 November 2011
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced earlier today that IBM will install critical components of a petascale supercomputing system that will help scientists improve our understanding of Earth.The new system, appropriately named Yellowstone, runs on an IBM iDataPlex supercomputer and consist of... |
8 November 2011
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Mainframes, particularly IBM ones, aren't known for their ability to allow Windows applications to run on them, but Big Blue has changed all that, or will do so on December 16, 2011, through its zEnterprise Systems. What the company did was, as an “an industry first,“ integrate Microsoft Windows Ap... |
8 November 2011
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In a little over a month, customers running IBM zEnterprise environments will be able to start leveraging Windows application, IBM confirmed on November 7, 2011.
The move is nothing more than IBM making good on a promise from earlier this year, with official Windows support in zEnterprise slated for introduction as... |
8 November 2011
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IBM, finally built on all those promises of the IT industry that there would soon be solar-powered data centers, by inventing the first array meant to provide that energy.
It is fortunate for the IT industry that solar cells and all the technology related to harnessing solar power has evolved.
It was all that prog... |
4 November 2011
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This month is definitely one when many executive changes happen on the IT market, as IBM adds its list to that of companies which got, or will get, a new CEO or other executive.
IBM revealed that it decided who will lead its operations starting on January 1, 2012, when she becomes a board member as well.
It is V... |
26 October 2011
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IBM announced recently that the company has reached an agreement with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan to develop for the group the "KEK Central Computer System," a server and storage solution that will be able to handle the petabytes of experiment data managed by the organization.The ... |
29 September 2011
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The New York state governor announced yesterday that a group of semiconductor companies led by Intel and IBM will invest $4.4 billion in the next five years in order to create a semiconductor R&D hub in New York to develop next-generation chip technology.
The investment targets two projects, one of these being led... |
28 September 2011
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At this year's International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), IBM researchers are due to detail the fabrication of a 2GHz graphene integrated circuit built using a CMOS-compatible manufacturing process technology.Graphene is two-dimensional allotrope of carbon made from a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms and the... |
19 September 2011
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Even after getting some 17,000 patents from Motorola, through the acquisition of the mobile hardware maker, which has not been finalized, Google is not satisfied with the patents it's got. It has now been revealed that the company bought another batch of 1,023 patents from IBM last month.
If you've been ... |
15 September 2011
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IBM and 3M announced earlier today that the two companies are working on developing a new type of adhesive that can be used to package semiconductors into densely stacked silicon “towers,” making possible the construction of 3D chips composed from as much as 100 separate silicon layers.According to IBM an... |
7 September 2011
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Researchers and engineers at IBM announce the development of a new generation of prototype computer chips, which may very well set the foundation for the creation of intelligent machines capable of thinking for themselves. The novel devices are based on brain cell architecture.
According to the experts, their goa... |
6 September 2011
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IBM may have sparked interest lately by making cognitive processors, but it has again looked to the storage segment ,where it hopes to set a massive new record in terms of sheer capacity.IBM definitely stirred the sleeping curiosity of many feelings by announcing that it had made cognitive computers, systems that ca... |
26 August 2011
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A new computer chip that is being developed by technology giant IBM allows a computer to actually learn the game of Pong and the strategies that lead to victory and might have a big impact on the gaming world in the long run.
The chip is called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAP... |
22 August 2011
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Whether due to recent findings that the PC is declining or not, IBM has announced a breakthrough in the field of cognitive computing, one that might actually spawn computers that can learn by themselves.IBM has been experimenting with new chip designs for quite some time and it looks like it might pull off something... |
19 August 2011
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Thirty years have passed since the invention of the first personal computer, but celebrations may have been cut short by a not-so-optimistic statement on the part of an IBM executive.Some may not remember, but it was IBM that created the very first personal computer to ever grace the world with its presence.Dubbed I... |
13 August 2011
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IBM and the University of Illinois recently announced they have terminated the contract signed between the two parts for the development of the Blue Waters supercomputer, as the former said the costs associated with the development and support of the machine are far too great.The Blue Waters supercomputer was expecte... |
9 August 2011
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NAND Flash memory is, at the moment, seen as the fastest storage solution on the IT market, but IBM decided it would make short work of that very technology by inventing something that seriously trounces the competition.
Currently, the PC storage solutions market is divided between hard disk drives and NAND Flash... |
30 June 2011
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McGill University today announced an $8.3-million CDN contract with IBM in Canada to acquire a supercomputer cluster, which, after being installed, will become the most powerful supercomputer in Quebec and the second-most energy-efficient data centre in Canada.The new supercomputer is based on IBM's iDataPlex so... |
15 June 2011
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Gone are the days when Microsoft had no rival in terms of market value among the companies in the United States. The software giant has dropped to the number three spot among top technology players, being now valued less than not just Apple but also IBM. And by the looks of it, the software giant’s slide will... |
24 May 2011
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It appears that better and faster transistors made of graphene aren't all that IBM is working on, since its recent press release speaks of a new set of POWER7 servers for demanding emerging applications.Though not really focused on the consumer market, IBM is one of biggest names on the business, enterprise and... |
12 April 2011
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Graphene really seems to be setting itself up as the eventual replacement for silicon, especially now that IBM is revealed to have managed the creation of a transistor much faster than any created so far. Graphene is a single layer of carbon arranges in hexagons and has, for quite some time, been tested upon.The goa... |
8 April 2011
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For quite a while now graphene has been the object of many studies as scientists try to better understand this material and use it as a replacement for silicon in future computer chips, and a recent discovery comes to strengthen graphene's role in transistor manufacturing since researchers have just found out th... |
6 April 2011
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It looks like HP isn't the only 'blue' company to be accused of bribery, as IBM has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with bribing quite a few officials between 1,998 and 2003. The IT market is definitely no stranger to lawsuits, as legal battles have been sprouting and closin... |
21 March 2011
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