Previous
Autonomy Gets Blue Chip Boost
News Blue chip fourth-quarter wins include Devon Energy, Energy Systems, Emirates Air, China Mobile, Banco de Mexico, Bloomberg, GM, Union Pacific, GE, Ericsson and AOL, as well as multiple government, defence and intelligence agencies around the globe...
[January 25, 2007, 12:34]
Blue Chip Development Fund To Boost Merced
News Many experts believe Merced could flop as users wait for McKinley, a more capable second-generation chip due in 2001.We want developers to create 64bit applications: it's not just about Merced," said Grierson.
[May 17, 1999, 7:27]
Blue Chip Sales Put Red Hat In Black
News Many customers use specialised versions of Linux, and the current slump in the chip sector could harm Red Hat's sales figures. Red Hat, the leading distributor of Linux, has bucked the current downturn in the technology sector by making its first...
[June 20, 2001, 11:10]
A Blue Chip IT Infrastructure
White Papers When Chelsea Financial Services Plc, the second largest independent discount broker in the UK, realized there was a major strain on their back-office administration systems, they knew a new IT solution to accommodate current and future growth was...
[August 15, 2003, 0:00]
IBM Expands Use Of Server Chip
News IBM has brought its top server chip to a second of its server lines -- the iSeries -- Big Blue announced on Monday.iSeries servers, which run IBM's OS/400 and which were formerly called AS/400 servers, typically are sold with tightly integrated...
[April 30, 2002, 10:47]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
News IBM and Samsung Electronics have signed a trio of chip technology-sharing agreements that could result in more semiconductors shaded "blue. Samsung said on Friday that it has simultaneously licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Comdex 2001: IBM Prepares Sequel To Summit Server
News IBM still is months from launching its most important Intel server, based on a chip that enables a 16-processor system, but already Big Blue is contemplating a 32-processor successor as well as plans to license the first model to other companies.
[November 14, 2001, 10:02]
IBM Seeks To Make Virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously, said Karl Freund, vice-president of IBM eServer pSeries. IBM also uses the chip in its thin JS20 blade servers.
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
IBM Plans $2.5bn Charge, Layoffs
News The Technology Group job cuts number 950 at Big Blue's Burlington, Vermont chip manufacturing plant and 300 at its East Fishkill and Endicott, New York sites. As part of the new chip foundry service, and an expansion of its custom chip-design...
[June 5, 2002, 8:47]
IBM Brings Speed To The Low End
News Big Blue's p615 previously had a 1.2GHz version of the Power4+ chip, which has two processor "cores" on a single slice of silicon. As expected, the new version comes with a 1.45GHz chip and is scheduled to begin shipping on 24 October.
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
Compaq, Dell Shy Off Crusoe Chip
News Big Blue is showing a technology demonstration based on its ThinkPad 240 mini-notebook, modified to run a TM 5400 chip. While Crusoe's ship appears to have come in, some large PC makers have decided to hold off on adopting the new chip for notebook...
[June 29, 2000, 7:06]
IBM Sells Off PowerPC Processors
News Although IBM will be giving up control of a good part of its PowerPC 400 family -- one of its three stand-alone PowerPC chip lines -- to Applied Microcircuits, Big Blue sees the deal as an opportunity to foster wider distribution of its PowerPC...
[April 13, 2004, 16:55]
IBM Supercomputer Achieves Petaflop
News The chip inside Blue Gene/P consists of four PowerPC 450 cores running at 850MHz each. The chip inside the Blue Gene/L contained two PowerPC cores running at 700MHz. IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
Motorola: New Chip Will Bring GPS To All
News Although Motorola has its own large semiconductor division, the Motorola Automotive Group chose to contract with IBM to manufacture the new chip using Big Blue's silicon germanium chipmaking process. Looking for ways to increase revenue from its...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
The Day Ahead: Girth Is Golden In The B2B Market
News That's where the i2 and Aspect merger comes in.i2, which was already landing some key pacts with blue-chip customers, can now say to a customer, "Hey, we're big and getting bigger. Ariba has been working feverishly to align itself with blue-chip...
[March 14, 2000, 12:01]
Tumbling Market To Calm IT Nerves?
News The bigger blue-chip companies may also be able to offer a wider range of employee benefits and since the devaluation of the dot-com companies, people are becoming more wary of leaving their blue-chip employers and their good salaries and benefits...
[April 17, 2000, 13:13]
Veitch Speaks: Sun's Dream Of Jini
News That's true even though Sun can point to a decent roster of so-called support: Novell wants to write a tailored directory service; Computer Associates wants to provide system management tools; a range of other blue chip companies, such as Hewlett...
[January 30, 1999, 7:11]
A Year Ago: Veitch Speaks: Sun's Dream Of Jini
News That's true even though Sun can point to a decent roster of so-called support: Novell wants to write a tailored directory service; Computer Associates wants to provide system management tools; a range of other blue chip companies, such as Hewlett...
[January 30, 2000, 6:11]
IBM To Reveal Power's Foundations
News Also on Wednesday, Sony announced that it has licensed the Power architecture for use in system-on-chip processors, which are all-in-one chips that include many of the features needed to run an electronic device.
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
IBM Sells Supercomputer To GM
News IBM is aiming its Power line chiefly at Intel's Itanium chip family today, but Power chips also are used in Apple computers and future Sony gaming consoles, and Big Blue is trying to make it easier for others to expand the Power chip family.
[April 22, 2004, 9:30]
