48 

techniques to harness patient data to improve diagnoses, deep computing power to model 

diseases to find cures, and new devices to access information to transform how patients and 

physicians interact, leading to more individualized care. Under the collaboration, Mayo Clinic 

will be the first medical institution to tap the power of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer.  

RealNetworks, Inc., and IBM announce they will develop and bring to market a solution that will 

enable media companies, network operators and other businesses to create, protect and deliver on 

demand consumer digital audio and video services based on open standards.  

Samsung Electronics joins a strategic semiconductor technology development partnership with 

IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Infineon. Initially, the four companies will 

focus on 65 nanometer technology and will extend, over time, to include 45 nm process 

development.  

IBM and Intel Corporation announce their collaboration on a new Linux based mobile 

workstation pilot to increase the productivity of engineers working in Electronic Design 

Automation.  

IBM and Cisco Systems, Inc., announce that the two companies have collaborated to design and 

build the world's most complex, programmable custom chip to power the Cisco Carrier Routing 

System, a new class of routing system for moving data, voice and video across Internet Protocol 

networks. The Cisco Silicon Packet Processor is the world's most sophisticated 40 Gbps 

(gigabits per second) application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), featuring an unprecedented 

38 million gates, approximately 185 million transistors and 188 high performance programmable 

32 bit RISC processors executing 47 billion instructions per second.  

IBM and 14 other companies announce their intention to form Power.org, an open standards 

community around chips and systems which use Power Architecture technology.  

Eastman Kodak Company and IBM say they will collaborate on the development and 

manufacture of image sensors to power mass market consumer products, such as digital still 

cameras and camera phones.  

Boeing and IBM announce an alliance to address an estimated $200 billion market for ground 

and space based systems to enhance U.S. military communications, intelligence operations and 

homeland security.  

PeopleSoft Inc. and IBM announce they will establish the most significant enterprise 

applications alliance in the history of the two companies.  

IBM and Massachusetts General Hospital announce they are working together to study how the 

development of a grid based, distributed computing infrastructure can facilitate improved 

collaboration and information sharing among cancer researchers.  

IBM and Karolinska Institutet, the Nobel Prize awarding research institute, announce they will 

team to build Sweden's first IT enabled biobank to advance the understanding of the links 

between genetics, environment and disease.  

1406HHX