AMD Strains For Processor Improvements
News Around 40 AMD researchers are already working out of IBM's labs. IBM, Intel and Toshiba, among others, also presented papers at the conference. AmberWave Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based start-up, worked in part with AMD on implementing...
[June 12, 2003, 9:03]
The Atoms Went Marching In One By One
News Kumar Wickramasinghe, an IBM fellow and manager of nanoscale and quantum studies at the company's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. A week before that, IBM and University of Toronto researchers said they had devised a way to get...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
IBM Makes Molecular Switch
News In 1989 IBM's Don Eigler manipulated atoms on a surface, using the STM to position 35 xenon atoms so they spelt out "I-B-M", and in 1991 other IBM scientists built the first atomic switch. Scientists led by Peter Liljeroth at IBM's Zurich Research...
[August 31, 2007, 16:52]
IBM Tech Pushes Storage Limits
News He added that there have already been discussions about developing nanoparticle media for use on Millipede, a project at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory that uses an atomic-force microscope to read data.
[March 17, 2000, 14:46]
Maximise Your Investment By Using Legacy Applications In .Net
News Although the rise of the minicomputer in the late 70s and the introduction of the PC in the early 80s each promised to challenge IBM's dominance, it wasn't until the late 90s that systems based on these architectures could actually deliver similar...
[July 10, 2003, 10:18]
IBM Focuses On Microscopic Advances
News The two companies have created an electron microscope that can accurately depict structures measuring less than an angstrom -- that is, one ten-billionth of a meter, or less than the width of a hydrogen atom, according to Philip Batson, the...
[August 8, 2002, 7:57]
IBM Reaches Nano-computing Breakthrough
News IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.
[May 20, 2002, 8:38]
Unix Servers Breaking Out All Over
News As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001. The Unix server floodgates are opening this week, with...
[April 9, 2002, 12:03]
Reading Supercomputer Tackles Climate Change
News The world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM Blue Gene/L system developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The university has upgraded its IBM BladeCenter with 700 JS21 blades, equipped with 3,040...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
IBM Brings Nanotube Revolution Closer
News In IBM's technique, the nanotubes are not damaged. Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes for incorporation into processors, a discovery that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades.
[September 30, 2002, 10:49]
'Strained Silicon' To Pump Up Chips
News There is a fundamental change in the methodology of progress," said Bernard Meyerson, chief technology officer of IBM's Technology group, which includes IBM Microelectronics. Researchers and design engineers from IBM and Intel will present papers...
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
US Plans Huge Spend On Nanotechnology
News As previously reported by CNET News.com, scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to force carbon nanotubes to emit light, which could eventually lead to advances in fibre-optic technology.
[May 8, 2003, 9:28]
Silicon's Successor Lurks In The Lab
News If you have a ballistic conductor, your charge can go completely unimpeded," said Joerg Appenzeller, a carbon nanotube researcher at IBM Research. IBM and others are experimenting with new fabrication techniques, such as building silicon-carbon...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
Frye: Curing Corporate Linux Phobia
News Four years ago, Dan Frye convinced IBM's management it would be smart to jump on the Linux bandwagon -- a wise suggestion. While helping direct IBM's Linux strategy, Frye also must avoid the appearance of trying to impose too much order on a...
[December 5, 2002, 7:29]
IBM To Build Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences has awarded IBM a multimillion-dollar contract to build Europe's largest non-classified supercomputer, IBM announced to-day. David Gelardi, director of high-performance computing for...
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
Single Electron Image Captured
News The result comes out of research performed by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM's Almaden Research Center and others on a form of MRI called magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), which can be 10 million times more sensitive...
[July 15, 2004, 8:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog IBM's ever-vigilant storage scientists have found that if you put one of these layers between two layers of more conventional hard disk recording material, the amount of data you can pack goes up by orders of magnitude.
[May 25, 2001, 17:50]
Red Hat Q2 Results On Target
News The company also inked key partnerships with tech giants such as Compaq, Dell, IBM and Oracle. We doubled the number of Red Hat's enterprise customers to 34 this quarter compared to 17 for the first quarter of this fiscal year," said Bob Young, CEO...
[September 22, 1999, 16:23]
Pencil + Sticky Tape = Desktop Supercollider + Post-silicon Processors
Blog Single-sheet graphene is just two years old; its physics is poorly understood and there's very little literature on it, even if that hasn't stopped IBM producing a graphene transistor in its labs that demonstrates many essential features.
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
IBM Sneers At EMC's Storage Virtualisation
Talkback Something IBM and EMC have NO understanding of.http://colossalstorage.net/ Virtual Storage using Atomic Holographic Optical Nanostorage will make data storage affordable to the worlds populations.
[May 21, 2005, 16:47]
