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Microprocessor Forum IBM's Peter Sandon disclosed technical details for IBM's PowerPC 970 processor in San Jose this morning and confirmed that the processor supports the AltiVec instruction set. In addition to providing a competitive workstation and edge server chip for IBM - which deploys POWER3 in these space and power sensitive designs, the processor is tailor made for high end Apple machines. It's expected to sample in the first half of next year, and appear in production volumes in the second half. 970 is a single 64bit core - as opposed to today's POWER4 - with IBM predicting 937...

IBM today announced a newly-developed, high-performance PowerPC microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The new chip, called the IBM PowerPC 970, is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is designed for initial speeds of up to 1.8 gigahertz, manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit. IBM plans to build...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Apple Computer, which for months has been encouraging PC users to switch to its Macintosh computers, is on the verge of some switching itself.</p> <p>The company, which has used Motorola microprocessors in most of its Macs since 1984, is the customer of a line of next-generation processors to be unveiled Monday by IBM, according to industry sources.</p>

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct 14 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) on Monday announced a microchip for personal computers that will crunch data in chunks twice as big as the current standard and is expected by industry watchers to be used by Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) Apple was not available to comment, and IBM declined to comment on which PC makers would use the chip, but its plans would mark a change for the industry, which has emphasized the importance of the speed of a chip rather than its ability to handle heavy workloads.IBM said its new PowerPC chip...

IBM flushes restroom patent By Troy Wolverton Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 11, 2002, 2:28 PM PT IBM has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the bathroom next. The computing giant received a patent for a "system and method for providing reservations for restroom use" in December. But the company later decided to renounce all of its patent claims after a petition was made against it, according to documents released this week by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. IBM spokesman Chris Andrews acknowledged that the company withdrew the patent. "We...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — IBM Corp. may give a peek into Apple Computer Inc.'s 64-bit future when it details a new version of its Power4 microprocessor next week. Aimed for use in desktops and low-end servers, the 64-bit Power4 could be IBM's first PowerPC-compatible chip to support the Altivec multimedia instruction extensions defined by Apple and Motorola Inc. The IBM device is one of about 18 new processors that will be described at the Microprocessor Forum 2002, to be held Oct. 14-17. "I expect there will be a fair amount of discussion about this part," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — IBM Corp. may give a peek into Apple Computer Inc.'s 64-bit future when it details a new version of its Power4 microprocessor next week. Aimed for use in desktops and low-end servers, the 64-bit Power4 could be IBM's first PowerPC-compatible chip to support the Altivec multimedia instruction extensions defined by Apple and Motorola Inc.The IBM device is one of about 18 new processors that will be described at the Microprocessor Forum 2002, to be held Oct. 14-17. "I expect there will be a fair amount of discussion about this part," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief of The...

IBM And MOSIS Expand Initiative To Help Emerging Companies And Universities Create Innovative Chip Designs 3 Oct 2002, 10:36am ET - - - - - Multi-Project Wafer Services To Include IBM Copper And CMOS Technologies Fabless Semiconductor Association Supplier Expo -- IBM and MOSIS today announced the expansion of an initiative to assist emerging companies and universities in developing innovative chip designs. Specifically, IBM plans to offer MOSIS access to CMOS technologies including IBM's 0.13- and 0.18-micron production processes that feature IBM's copper-wire technology, which MOSIS will integrate into its Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) services. In addition, IBM plans to...

Applera Corp., one of Hewlett Packard Co.'s showcase clients, has decided to retool its IT infrastructure, upgrading and consolidating its server infrastructure and networked storage by swapping out all its Compaq equipment for IBM servers and EMC storage. The deal, likely worth tens of millions of dollars, involves more than 150TB of EMC high-end storage and a dozen of IBM's high-end P-series servers configured in a super computer cluster. Mark Lewis, who took over as EMC Corp.'s chief technology officer in July after resigning as vice president and general manager of Compaq's Enterprise Storage Group, led the development of Compaq's...

<p>Apple Computer is looking toward a 64-bit future for the Mac -- courtesy of PowerPC partner IBM.</p> <p>According to sources, IBM Microelectronics, a division of IBM, is working with Apple on a 64-bit PowerPC processor for use in the latter's high-end desktops and servers.</p>

Red Hat Inc. has formed a partnership with computer giant International Business Machines Corp. under which the Linux company will strike up a cozier relationship with Big Blue's hardware, services and software divisions, the companies said Monday. Under the alliance, Red Hat's new and more expensive software, called Red Hat Advanced Server, will be sold by IBM's consulting division and run across four lines of IBM servers and mainframes. In addition, a full line of IBM software popular with big businesses - including Web Sphere, DB2, Tivoli and Lotus - will be tweaked to run on Red Hat's version of...

IBM Killed the Video Store By John Leyden Posted: 09/09/2002 at 17:54 GMT IBM is supplying the technology for an upcoming online movie rental service backed by five major Hollywood studios. Movielink, a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros, will offer films for download to broadband users in the US. IBM is to providing managed hosting services, including systems operations and network management. Movielink should launch in Q4 this year. It will use the Internet as a distribution channel, delivering films initially to consumers' PCs and later also to other Internet-connected devices...

Augusta National Golf Club is putting its money where its mouth is in its fight with a women's group pressuring the club to admit a female member. Club chairman Hootie Johnson announced Friday that because corporate sponsors of the Masters' telecast are being pressured by the National Council of Women's Organizations, the 2003 tournament will be shown without sponsors or commercials. At least golf fans will benefit from the fight. The 2003 telecast would have contained its normal four commerical minutes per hour. With 12 1/2 hours of live programming, that's 50 minutes of commericials that will not take golf...

<p>Then his boss asked him to work weekends during his final month on the payroll.</p> <p>"That was the last straw," the 48-year-old East Brunswick man said. "It told me a lot about the state of things there."</p> <p>The Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant was supposed to be a soft landing spot for Fusco and 3,500 other software developers AT&T had shipped there in two waves beginning in 1999.</p>

By mid-2000, the free ride was officially over. The venture capitalists that once threw money at any Silicon Valley company with either “dot-com” or “Linux” at the end of their name (or a lowercase “E” or “I” in front) finally figured out their ROI was AWOL and they were all SOL. The same Clintonomics cheerleaders that derided Reaganomics and the “service economy” as tired, old and stupid were throwing billions of dollars down the dot-com/Linux rat holes based on phantom revenues directly tied to intangible services rather than tangible products. Venture capitalists turned off the money spigot for these New...

Total employees laid off in latest round of job cuts is more than twice what some estimated. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - IBM on Tuesday said the total number of employees who lost their jobs as a result of its cost cutting efforts in the second quarter exceeded 15,600, more than twice what some company watchers had estimated. The tech titan disclosed that number in its comprehensive quarterly financial statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. IBM, the world's largest supplier of computer hardware and information technology services, said the bulk of the job cuts were in its Global Services...

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) Corp. plans to cut more than 15,600 jobs in its computer-services and microelectronics businesses, according to a regulatory filing made public on Tuesday. The job cuts were confirmed when IBM reported its second-quarter earnings, however the precise number of cuts and details were not disclosed at the time. IBM disclosed the figures in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. IBM, based in Armonk, N.Y., said it will cut 14,213 jobs, mostly in its services business, which had about 150,000 employees as of the end of last year....

IBM exposes sub atomic transistors Microscope delivers future vision By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 08 August 2002, 13:51 IN ITS ENDEAVOURS to create ever smaller chips IBM, together with advanced electron optics Nion, has developed what it says is the world's highest-resolution electron microscope. The microscope allows observers to see individual atoms, measuring four-billionths of an inch wide. It was developed to check on the tiddly transistors used in advanced semiconductors. The science journal Nature, says today, "The ability to use electron microscopy to identify and locate individual atoms will have a wide impact on materials, physics and biological sciences". IBM...

IBM Unveils What Is Believed to Be the World's Most Advanced Chip-Making Plant EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. (AP) -- IBM Corp. unveiled what was believed to be the world's most advanced chip-making plant Wednesday, promising 1,000 new jobs and a boost to the upstate economy. The $2.5 billion, 140,000-square-foot facility currently makes the prototype cutting-edge chips and was expected to reach full production by February 2003. The chips produced at the Fishkill plant, 60 miles north of New York City, will be the first IBM chips to be made on 300mm wafers of silicon, instead of the current 200mm wafers. More...

http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/portrayals.html?record=592 This real life gay couple (though it's only vaguely referred to), who are also business partners, are quoted as saying, "We're not even your ordinary pop & pop operation." The text reads: "Eight years after jettisoning the corporate life for a business of their own, Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman are the proud proprietors of 30 Minute Photos Etc. in Irvine, California." It ends by saying, "A perfect relationship in more ways than one," a double meaning for their relationship as well as for IBM. http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/portrayals.html?record=754 "Yet Another Thing To Share... A new IBM Thinkpad Notebook" http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/portrayals.html?record=753 "Yet Another...