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2001

IBM

 enters an alliance with Internet HealthCare Group to provide 

IHCG

's partner companies 

with 

IBM

 information technology.  

IBM

 and 

LSI

 Logic Corporation complete a technology licensing agreement to accelerate the 

integration of high performance digital signal processor capability into custom chips for next 

generation networking equipment, wireless handsets and other advanced communication 

products. 

IBM

 and eBay Inc. form a strategic software, sales and marketing alliance.  

IBM

 and 

MDS

 Proteomics form an alliance to speed drug development for a wide range of 

diseases. 

IBM

 and Trilogy establish an alliance to jointly market and deploy e business and channel 

management solutions to Global 2000 companies in the financial services and automotive 

industries.  

ALLTEL

 and 

IBM

 form a joint venture to provide Corebank, a continuous real time core banking 

system to European financial services organizations.  

IBM

 and NeTune Communications launch an alliance that includes an 

IBM

 equity investment in 

NeTune, a $112 million outsourcing agreement and a commitment to jointly develop digital 

solutions for the entertainment industry.  

IBM

 and Financial Fusion agree to jointly offer Global 1000 financial institutions in North 

America a broad suite of e business services and solutions for online retail banking and capital 

markets.  

MCNC

, a nonprofit corporation, and 

IBM

 announce they will collaborate on one of the first 

computer Grids in the United States to offer computing, data storage and networking resources 

for life sciences research. The new Grid system will be accessible to thousands of researchers 

and educators throughout North Carolina to help accelerate the pace of gnomic research. 

Science & Technology

For the ninth consecutive year, 

IBM

 is awarded the most U.S. patents    with a record 3,411    for 

a 20 percent increase over its previous record set in 2000. This achievement makes 

IBM

 the first 

patent holder to be granted more than 3,000 U.S. patents in a single year.  

IBM

 scientists develop a breakthrough transistor technology that could lead to the production of a 

new class of smaller, faster and lower power computer chips than are now possible with silicon. 

They build the world's first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes    tiny cylinders of 

carbon atoms that measure as small as 10 atoms across and are 500 times smaller than today's 

silicon based transistors.  

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