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2003 

IBM reports that a  team at the University of Texas at Austin and IBM's Austin Research 

Laboratory  will collaborate to produce an adaptive, high performance microprocessor that could 

revolutionize computing by providing supercomputer performance on a single chip.  

Grady Booch, Dr. Donald Chamberlin, Dr. George Galambos, Rod Smith and Charles Webb are 

named as IBM Fellows, the company's preeminent technical distinction. Only 175 individuals    

including 56 active employees    have earned this designation in the company's history.  

Japan's largest national research organization orders an IBM eServer Linux supercomputer that 

when completed will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second, making it the world's  

most powerful Linux based supercomputer. The system with a total of 2,636 processors will 

include 1,058 eServer 325 systems with 2,116 AMD Opteron processors. 

Facilities 

In January, IBM announces that Sanmina SCI will acquire or lease IBM manufacturing 

equipment and buildings in Guadalajara, Mexico and Greenock, Scotland that support IBM 

NetVista desktop systems, ThinkPad notebooks and eServer xSeries systems. This is part of an 

agreement to outsource to Sanmina SCI a significant portion of IBM's manufacturing of low and 

midrange xSeries and IntelliStation workstations for customers in the Americas, mainland 

Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Similarly, Solectron will acquire a significant portion of the 

manufacturing operations of Global Asset Recovery Services, an offering of IBM Global 

Financing that restores end of lease PCs and other information technology equipment for resale. 

Solectron will acquire the IBM refurbishing center that supports this operation in Research 

Triangle Park, N.C.  

The company starts up its first facility designed to deliver supercomputing power to customers 

over the Internet. The new deep computing facility is located in IBM's Poughkeepsie, New 

York, plant and is initially equipped with a cluster of IBM eServer xSeries Intel based Linux 

systems with related disk storage. GX Technology Corporation, which produces high resolution 

subsurface images from large volumes of seismic data, is one of the facility's first users.  

IBM establishes a new center in Bangalore, India, to provide technology design services for 

advanced chips, cards and systems to companies in India and across Asia. The center is part of 

IBM's Engineering & Technology Services division.  

In April, the company opens a new center in London for the financial sector, the latest of nine 

new IBM Linux competency centers IBM has across four different continents.  

In July, IBM establishes a new center in Haifa, Israel to provide technology design services for 

other companies that need advanced chips.  

Corporate Citizenship 

IBM introduces a first of its kind initiative    the IBM On Demand Community    to encourage 

and sustain corporate philanthropy through volunteerism. The program will arm employees with  

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