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      2001 

IBM

 builds the world's fastest silicon based transistor using a modified design and 

IBM

's proven 

silicon germanium technology to reach speeds of 210 GigaHertz while drawing just a milliamp 

of electrical power. The new transistor will drive communications chips to speeds of 100GHz 

within two years    five times faster and four years sooner than recent competitive approaches.  

IBM

 scientists make a  voltage inverter     one of the three fundamental logic circuits that are the 

basis for all current computers    from a carbon nanotube, a single tube shaped molecule of 

carbon atoms that is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. 

IBM

 and the Korea Institute of Science Technology and Information agree that 

IBM

 will provide 

one of the 10 largest supercomputers in the world    capable of 4.24 trillion calculations per 

second    for use in Korea's life science and high performance research efforts.  

IBM

 unveils the 

IBM

 PowerPC 405LP, the first of a family of chips capable of ultra low power 

operation and ideal for battery powered portable consumer electronic devices.  

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., 

IBM

 and Toshiba Corporation announce plans to research 

and develop an advanced chip architecture for a new wave of devices in the emerging broadband 

era.  

IBM

 joins the Extreme Ultra Violet 

LLC

 industry consortium to support the development of 

EUV

lithography technology which would allow semiconductor manufacturers to etch circuit lines 

smaller than 0.1 micron.  

IBM

 researchers disclose advances in the development of an alternate type of transistor that could 

lead to major semiconductor improvements. Called a  double gate  transistor, the device can 

carry twice the electrical current, operate at twice the speed and be reduced in size well below 

conventional transistors.  

IBM

 and the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory agree to research and 

develop advanced computer architectures to increase the understanding of diseases. At the heart 

of the agreement is 

IBM

's Blue Gene research project, which combines advanced protein science 

with 

IBM

's next generation cellular architecture supercomputer design.  

Researchers at the Winship Canver Institute at Emory University team with NuTec Sciences, Inc. 

and 

IBM

 to develop an integrated information system that will enable physicians to tailor cancer 

treatments based on a patient's specific generic makeup.  

Boeing Satellite Systems and 

IBM

 say they have created the world's most powerful satellite 

based digital signal processor, designed to make space borne wireless communications available 

to a wide audience of users.  

IBM

 researchers demonstrate Wireless Security Auditor, the industry's first automated tool to 

monitor 802.11 wireless networks and collect security related information.  

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