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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – How many times have you seen TV and web ads touting IBM’s drive into the cloud, hybrid style? The hype continued Tuesday with Big Blue unveiling a host of initiatives.
“We will look back on this year and last as the moment the world entered the digital century in full force,” said IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna. “In the same way that we electrified factories and machines in the past century, we will use hybrid cloud to infuse AI into software and systems in the 21st century. And one thing is certain: this is a future that must be built on a foundation of deep industry collaboration. No one understands this better than IBM, which is one of the reasons we are boosting investment in our partner ecosystem.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – We all want faster devices, longer lasting batteries, more power – and IBM may have the answer.
As the world’s economy demands more advanced semiconductors than ever for evertyhing from cellphones to automobiles and a continuing shortage hindering production worldwide, IBM on Thursday unveiled a potentially breakthrough design in chips:
The world’s first 2 nanometer (nm), much smaller in scale that existing 5 nm and 7 nm yet packing more processing power 45% more than 7 nm chips while using 75% less energy, says IBM.
“This 2 nm technology is a foundational advanced logic technology,” Mukesh Khare, vice president of Hybrid Cloud Research at IBM, tells WRAL TechWire.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is acquiring Boston-based software firm Turbonomic in another bid to strengthen its cloud offerings. It’s reportedly the most expensive purchase Big Blue has made since acquiring Raleigh-based Red Hat for $34 billion two years ago.
Financial terms of the deal announced Thursday weren’t disclosed by IBM but media reports indicate the purchase price could be as much as $2 billion.
“The transaction values Turbonomic at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, people familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity,” Reuters reported.
The deal “complements IBM’s recent acquisition of Instana and launch of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps [intelligent IT operations] to address AI-driven automation of IT; Powered by Red Hat OpenShift to run applications on any cloud,” IBM said in the announcement.