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2002 

The company begins a research program to develop technologies that could help solve 

continually escalating power consumption issues and help reduce cooling and power supply costs 

for 

IT

 infrastructures.  

Researchers from 

IBM

 and Nion Co. develop innovative technology to peer deep inside materials 

and view atoms interacting in different environments at a resolution never before possible.  

IBM

 develops and demonstrates a tiny device that measures heart rate and is able to sense when 

the person wearing it is in distress and then call a cell phone for immediate help.  

Facilities 

IBM

 opens a 300 millimeter semiconductor facility in East Fishkill, N.Y. The new 140,000 

square foot facility    designed to satisfy growing demand for 

IBM

' s leading edge chip 

technologies through high end  foundry  manufacturing services    contains 200 miles of piping 

and tubing, 600 miles of cable and wiring and two million pounds of ductwork.  

IBM

 and Sanmina 

SCI

 Corporation, a global electronics manufacturing service provider, agree in 

January that 

IBM

 will outsource a significant portion of its desktop personal computer 

manufacturing needs to Sanmina 

SCI

 and that Sanmina 

SCI

 will acquire 

IBM

's NetVista desktop 

manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe. 

IBM

, which will continue to design 

and market the NetVista line of desktops, signs a three year, $5 billion outsourcing agreement 

with Sanmina 

SCI

 for desktop manufacturing services. Under the agreement, Sanmina 

SCI

 will 

acquire and use existing 

IBM

 desktop manufacturing buildings and equipment in Research 

Triangle Park, N.C., for U.S. and Canadian customers, and assume the management of 

IBM

's 

current outsourced manufacturing contract, and acquire 

IBM

 manufacturing equipment, in 

Greenock, Scotland, for European and other customers.  

The 

IBM

 Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, Calif., marks its 25th anniversary in September 

and the unveiling of Silicon Valley's first 

IBM

 Design Center for e business infrastructure (a 

3,000 square foot, $2 million state of the art facility in which 

IBM

 technical experts host 

workshops for customers and collaborate with them to design and develop new e business 

solutions). Opened in 1977 on 90 acres, the Silicon Valley Laboratory was the first software 

development facility of its kind. Its track record of achievements include 

IMS

, the workhorse 

database technology; the relational database; DiscoveryLink; 1,000 patents; and creation of 

IBM

's content management technology.  

IBM

 says in May that it is realigning its Microelectronics Division to increase operational 

efficiencies and capitalize on emerging growth opportunities. As part of this realignment, the 

division will increase its use of leading edge copper technology and close older aluminum 

technology capacity.  

IBM

 establishes the Development Center for Telecom and e business    in San Mateo, Calif., 

Sydney, Australia and Hursley, U.K.    to assist independent software vendors in creating e 

business applications that can connect easily to telephone networks.  

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