Archive for January 30th, 2007

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

High-k Metal Gate Technology

IBM has been in the news this week for announcing a breakthrough in High-k Metal Gate Technology. Though IBM was the lead, they partnered with AMD and others to share risk and expense. Intel singularly announced a similar breakthrough the same week. I’ve provided what I believe is a sufficiently detailed summary […]

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

IBM Buys Softek Storage Solutions

IBM announced on Saturday an agreement to acquire Softek Storage Solutions Corporation, a privately held company based in Vienna, Virginia. They have been an IBM partner for as long as they’ve been independent from Fujitsu (1996) and have good penetration in the Fortune 1000, claiming 60% of them as customers. Interestingly, Softek just bought […]

2 Comments » - Posted in General, Acquisitions, News, Mainframe by Greg