News tagged ‘ibm’
Tuesday, 23 Apr 2013
IBM Prototypes Solar Power Collector with Liquid Cooling System
IBM has prototyped a water-cooled solar collector dish that can safely harness the power of 2,000 suns by focusing the sun's rays on hundreds of photovoltaic chips. This High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system is capable of converting up to 80 per cent of the collected solar energy.
Thursday, 20 Dec 2012
IBM Unveils Five Innovations that May Change Our Computing Landscape
IBM has announced their yearly "5 in 5" that comprises five innovations that may have the potential to change the way we live, work and play over the course of the next five years. They are based on current trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM's R&D laboratories around the world.
Monday, 26 Nov 2012
Apple's iPad Dominates Black Friday Mobile Shopping
Now that Black Friday is over, IBM has released a set of data that reveals Apple's iPad as the biggest contributor of online sales for mobile devices.
Monday, 29 Oct 2012
IBM Reports Breakthrough in Carbon Nanotube Chip Technology
Scientists at IBM Research have reported a breakthrough in carbon nanotube technology, allowing them to arrange the nanotubes 100 times more densely than earlier methods
Monday, 18 Jun 2012
LRZ and IBM Announce First Commercial Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer
Built with the IBM System x iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 servers with more than 150,000 cores, the SuperMUC is a powerful, high-performance system designed to aid researchers and industrial institutions across Europe take on scientific challenges.
Tuesday, 3 Apr 2012
IBM and ASTRON in Collaboration to Develop Low-Powered, Exascale Supercomputers
IBM and Netherland's National Institute of Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) will research and develop low-powered, exascale supercomputer systems for the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The SKA is an international consortium to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope.
Friday, 23 Mar 2012
Facebook Rumored to Have Acquired 750 Patents from IBM
According to the rumor mill, Facebook is said to have acquired 750 patents from IBM, possibly to help it counter allegations of patent infringement.
Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011
IBM and Friends Invests US$4.4 Billion in New York Chip Technology Hub
IBM, together with Intel, Globalfoundries Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics will jointly invest US$4.4 billion to create a hub that does next-generation computer chip technologies.
Thursday, 15 Sep 2011
Google Acquires Over 1000 Patents from IBM
Google boosted its patent portfolio with the purchase of an additional 1,023 patents from IBM.
Thursday, 8 Sep 2011
IBM and 3M to Develop Adhesives to Build Stacks of Semiconductors
Glue and stack them high! IBM and 3M have joined forces to create a special glue with a goal to bond entire wafers into densely stacked silicon "towers".
