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TSMC, Globalfoundries, IBM, UMC and more or less every other foundry out there have to constantly improve their manufacturing technologies, which means their research labs are always looking into more advanced nodes.
Not everything can be done alone though, especially when one of the features you need is patented b... |
14 June 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Researchers from Security Explorations have identified a total of nine ways to completely bypass the IBM Java sandbox. Of these nine exploits, five are new ones and four are old issues that haven’t been properly addressed. According to Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of the Polish security firm, the five new... |
6 May 2013
08:54 GMT |
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Last month, we learned that Lenovo was gunning for IBM's server business, and that it was searching for other parties that could help it secure a portion of the server industry for itself.
Given Lenovo's success on the PC market, where it rose to prominence in just a few years, it wasn't too hard to b... |
3 May 2013
02:40 GMT |
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Researchers from n.runs have identified an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in IBM’s Notes (formerly Lotus Notes), the popular desktop client for social business. The 8.0.x, 8.5.x, 9.0 versions of the application are impacted.
According to experts, because the Notes mail client accepts Java applet and Ja... |
2 May 2013
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First off, let me just say: brace yourselves, this is one of the most mind-blowing cinematic productions you will ever get to see. Not because of the plot (there's just one boy playing around with an atom, hence the movie's name: A Boy and His Atom), but because of who's starring in it. Long story ... |
1 May 2013
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Not content with dominating just the PC market, rumor has it that Lenovo is in talks with IBM for the acquisition of the latter's server business.
For all its expertise in PCs, however, Lenovo doesn't really know all it needs to know about servers and data centers.
That is why, reports say, it has begun t... |
23 April 2013
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Advanced Micro Devices isn't the only one experiencing financial woes. IBM is too, although its problems aren't quite as pronounced.
The company has been forced to admit that it has been doing rather poorly in the sales execution department.
In other words, IBM missed a few good deals, which caused an imp... |
19 April 2013
09:49 GMT |
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Manufacturing technologies have become so small that, in order to improve semiconductors in a fundamental manner, it takes a breakthrough at atomic levels, as the one that IBM has just revealed. The short version of the story is that IBM has achieved a materials science breakthrough at the atomic level that opens d... |
26 March 2013
05:59 GMT |
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Postfix, a mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program, is now at version 2.10.0.
Highlights of Postfix 2.10.0:
• Separation of relay policy (with smtpd_relay_restrictions) from spam policy (with smtpd_{client, helo, sender, recipient}_restrictions), whic... |
12 February 2013
10:03 GMT |
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Sequoia may no longer be the world mightiest supercomputer (that's the Titan now), but it is the second greatest, and the one that the US National Nuclear Security Administration will use to make top-secret analyses, but noise will have to do as subject matter in the meantime. Indeed, the petascale Blue Gene/Q... |
29 January 2013
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A new report released by research firm IFI reveals that IBM remains the top patent winner in the United States, followed by Samsung and Canon.
IBM was granted a total of 6,478 patents last year, while Samsung won 5,081. Microsoft is the sixth company in the list with 2,613 patents, ahead of rivals Google (1,151 pate... |
11 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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IBM's Watson is probably the best-known supercomputer in the world, from having won Jeopardy against the top human contestant, but that wasn't enough for the IBM researchers who created him.
Having felt that Jeopardy participation built a solid enough base for understanding and interpreting sounds, voices... |
11 January 2013
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It may or may not have something to do with how ridiculous certain patent wars are getting, but IBM has signed an acquisition deal with StoredIQ.
In addition to enhancing IBM's ability to help its clients “derive value from big data,” the company will also provide new means of disposing of obsolete ... |
19 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Postfix, a mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program, is now at version 2.9.5.
Highlights of Postfix 2.9.5:
• A false error (missing "]" character) which occurred when a reject_{rhs,dns}bl_* or permit_{rhs,dns}wl_* reply pattern started with "[", has be... |
14 December 2012
09:43 GMT |
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A recent study by IBM shows that the Apple iPad generated more traffic than any other tablet or smartphone in online shopping this Black Friday.
Reaching nearly 10 percent of online orders, the iPad was followed closely by (you guessed it!) the iPhone, with 8.7 percent, and Google Android with 5.5 percent.
Accordin... |
26 November 2012
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Red Hat has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including the KVM hypervisor, has been awarded the Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+
This award is the highest level of assurance for an unmodified commercial operating system, for the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP)... |
30 October 2012
12:48 GMT |
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A couple of days back, Newsweek argued that according to their fourth annual Green Rankings, IBM [i.e. International Business Machines Corporation] is presently the greenest company in the US, and the fourth most environmentally friendly in the world.
This is the second time when this American multinational technol... |
24 October 2012
08:13 GMT |
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Magnetic tape used to be the rave at one point. Everything was on tape, from music tracks to films and even video proof in trials of law. Though tape continues to be used heavily in enterprise environments even now, the medium fell into disfavor on all other layers of the IT market, after compact disks and, more rec... |
22 October 2012
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Globalfdoundries and IBM both have chip manufacturing businesses that can exist just fine on their own, not counting the clients they make chips for, but that doesn't mean they can't go for outside help.
As it happens, both foundry companies feel that they could get faster at advancing manufacturing proce... |
2 October 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Researchers from Polish firm Security Explorations have identified a number of 17 vulnerabilities in Java. However, this time it isn’t the Java developed by Oracle, but the one made by the IBM Corporation for AIX, Linux, z/OS and IBMi systems. The affected software is IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, version ... |
11 September 2012
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Computing giant IBM once again proved it is the most advanced semiconductor, server and processor manufacturer in the world and launched the fastest and, probably, the most complex CPU in the world today.
IBM has just announced the new zEnterprise EC12 server mainframe that took $1 billion to develop.
The most inte... |
30 August 2012
05:31 GMT |
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IBM has a hand in many of the happenings in the field of technology today, but solid state technology is one area where it has yet to make an impact, but that may not last for much longer.
The reason IBM hasn't awed anyone on the solid state flash memory segment is simple: lack of IP and R&D expertise.
This s... |
17 August 2012
11:31 GMT |
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IBM is the company whose processors are found in many of the world's supercomputers, including the greatest ever, thanks largely to the System z and Power7 platforms.
If what we are reading here is true, we have something massive to look forward to this month.
Long story short, IBM will demonstrate the System ... |
4 August 2012
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If there are any IT companies that get to move more money around than Intel, IBM is definitely one of them, as shown, once again, by their quarterly earnings report. IBM really didn't leave anything out when it published its earnings report for the second quarter of the year (April-June, 2012). It's enoug... |
19 July 2012
10:03 GMT |
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During the past decade, the costs of building a new and high-end semiconductor factory have risen quite a bit. From two or three billion dollars back in the days of AMD’s Dresden FAB, the costs are now over ten billion for a 450 mm wafer FAB. IBM has historically pulled back from any kind of business that mani... |
15 July 2012
22:41 GMT |
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Many of the big contract manufacturers like TSMC and UMC started charging their fabless customers “by wafer” instead of charging them “per working chip.” This has increased the costs for the fabless companies like AMD and Nvidia, but has assured the FAB owners that they won’t operate at ... |
10 July 2012
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UMC is the foundry always playing second behind TSMC, but it seems that lately it has been on a track of important achievements and, if this trend continues, the company will edge its main competitor. One of these achievements is the company’s pledge to invest over 8 billion dollars into developing and buildin... |
1 July 2012
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The Top500 list has just been updated, and there is a certain high-ranking system that deserves attention for more than just its raw performance.
This time, we aren't going to praise the SuperMUC supercomputer for being the fastest Intel-based HPC system, or for being Europe's best entry on that list. We ... |
18 June 2012
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The grand day is finally here: Hans Meuer, Jack Dongarra and Erich Strohmaier have compiled the latest Top500 supercomputer list. The Top500 list is updated twice a year by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simo... |
18 June 2012
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SK Hynix apparently believes that IBM may have stumbled across a gold mine when it developed its brand of phase-change random access memory. As a non-volatile RAM technology, it essentially bridges the gap between random access memory and NAND.
Random access memory is very fast, but it has a problem in that it neve... |
13 June 2012
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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be installed both in Australia and South Africa, project managers announce. This will be the most sensitive radio installation ever developed, and will be used to investigate the Universe in more detail than ever before.
The announcement was made yesterday, May 2... |
26 May 2012
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The official IBM Research website (researcher.ibm.com), a domain dedicated to projects and publications, has been taken offline after a group called Kosova Hacker Security (KHS) has managed to breach and deface it.
The Hacker News has caught a glimpse of the defaced website and reports that the members of KHS have ... |
21 May 2012
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Silicene is a combination of graphene and silicon that reportedly has a significant chance to reach the semiconductor market before the well-known graphene. Silicene is a single-atom thick layer of silicone interposed in a graphene base and this combination could beat graphene to the components market because the ind... |
2 May 2012
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The 140 government, life sciences, manufacturing, electronics, consumer goods and financial services customers of a certain Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company have probably learned by now that IBM bought their software supplier. Long story short, IBM managed to score a deal through which it fully acquired Vivisi... |
30 April 2012
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French company Soitec is a manufacturer and developer of Silicon On Insulator wafers that is headquartered in Bernin, France. SOI technology is well known to the computer enthusiasts all over the world, as this is the technology AMD used to manufacture its CPUs since the 2003 K8 architecture. The initiator of SOI was... |
24 April 2012
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IBM already has a fairly big stake in the HPC and data center markets, but it is going to become even more prominent in the field by 2024, if its recent contract with ASTRON goes as planned.
IBM has been commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) to research and develop an exascale super... |
2 April 2012
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Officials at IBM announced yesterday, April 1, that the company was awarded a $42 million contract for processing the data obtained by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). This will be the most sensitive radio observatory ever developed, and will require enormous amounts of computer processing power.
The telescope... |
2 April 2012
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A specially designed array of IBM P750 Express Servers will be adapted to study case chart data of current and future cancer patients.IBM’s Watson technology is not much to look at from the general public’s point of view. Watson consists of 90 servers – not the most interesting thing to look at on t... |
28 March 2012
12:42 GMT |
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The first publicity blow of showing a series 14nm silicon wafer belonged to IBM this year. SemiAccurate’s Charlie is reporting that, in the second week of March, the company has showed one of their first 14nm silicon wafers containing IC dies. The piece is certainly a test wafer and the chips on it have not b... |
26 March 2012
07:56 GMT |
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IBM is still the packaging king as they’ve been for the last decade or so. They were first to the market with a really big MCM module of “bubble memory” back in the ’70, a huge MCM server design using their Power5 architecture in 2003, and now they are back with a new packaging technology. O... |
26 March 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Processors that use light to transfer data, instead of electrical signals, are something that the IT industry has been working on for a long time, but IBM seems to be doing the best in this area. The company has shown that it succeeded in its effort to make an optical chipset that can move information eight times f... |
12 March 2012
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Life is suddenly a lot harder and the future insecure for over 1,000 people that used to work for IBM as recently as a week ago.
Word is out that the company laid off more than 1,000 people during the past seven days, which is quite a big number, even if the pink slips were spread across the whole country (USA).
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29 February 2012
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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
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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
18:31 GMT |
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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
10:09 GMT |
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