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2002 

IBM

 and Great Wall Technology Limited sign a three year agreement in which Great Wall 

Technology's subsidiary    ExcelStor Technology    will manufacture the 40 gigabyte version of 

IBM

's Deskstar 120GXP desktop drive. The agreement makes Great Wall Technology the first 

Chinese company to manufacture and sell computer hard disk drives for the worldwide market.  

American Express and 

IBM

 form a technology services partnership in February in which 

IBM

will provide utility like access to its vast computing resources. The agreement is valued at more 

than $4 billion over seven years. The following month, the two companies agree to jointly 

develop a Web based expense report and reconciliation tool designed to reduce the cost of 

managing everyday business expenses.  

IBM

 and Xilinx announce in March a two year, multi million dollar agreement under which 

IBM

will manufacture the newly announced Xilinx Virtex 

II

 Pro semiconductor products. The two 

companies sign an agreement in June under which 

IBM

 will license field programmable gate 

array technology from Xilinx for integration into 

IBM

's Cu 08 

ASIC

 product offering. 

IBM

 and Dassault Systemes sign an agreement with Toyota Motor Corporation to build a world 

class collaboration around 

PLM

 Solutions covering vehicle development processes.  

IBM

 and The Thomson Corporation agree to combine 

IBM

's e learning technologies and 

Thomson's learning products and services to jointly pursue the $18 billion global market for 

corporate and government e learning.  

Air Canada begins using new wireless mobile 

IBM

 self service kiosks in a trial program to 

expedite passenger check in at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport. The mobile kiosks represent 

the first jointly developed solution resulting from the strategic relationship between 

IBM

 and Air 

Canada.  

IBM

 and Mayo Clinic say they will jointly develop an information system to give Mayo Clinic 

investigators information to help them more quickly identify potential clinical trial participants.  

Science & Technology

For the tenth consecutive year, 

IBM

 leads the world in generating the most U.S. patents    with 

3,288    nearly doubling the output of the second most productive company. In the past decade, 

IBM

 inventors have received a record 22,357 patents, besting the next closest company, 

Canon, by nearly 7,000 patents. During this period, 

IBM

 has generated more patents than 10 of 

the largest U.S. information technology companies combined, including Hewlett 

Packard/Compaq, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, 

EMC

, Oracle, and 

EDS

. In addition, 

IBM

 is 

the only company to be granted 3,000 U.S. patents in a single year, passing that milestone each 

of the past two years.  

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