IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company will sharpen its focus on partnerships to drive revenue during the next five years in a push to become known as the leading global hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence provider, CRN reported Monday. “I want our partners to be the best at establishing a hybrid architecture at our clients and establishing an AI footprint at our clients,” Krishna told the publication.

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IBM’s research business and Rice University have developed a robot assistant that uses Watson-based cognitive computing application to help manage care for elderly people. The prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant is designed to measure an individual’s heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate and provide answers to health-related queries as part of a study that aims to improve eldercare, IBM said […] More

IBM has received a multi-year grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to further study superconducting qubits the company believes could eventually facilitate development of a universal quantum computer. The company said Tuesday it aims to help IARPA design a logical qubit from multiple imperfect physical qubits and tackle computational limitations in existing quantum systems through the […] More

IBM has developed and tested a silicon photonics chip designed to use tiny optical fibers and light pulses to move huge amounts of data between computing systems. The company believes its complementary metal-oxide semiconductor integrated nanophotonics technology could help industry manufacture optical transceivers capable of transferring information at 100 gigabits per second, IBM said Tuesday. […] More

IBM has reported two new developments in its ongoing work to build what the company calls a “practical” quantum computer as part of efforts to advance quantum computing to solve scientific problems in the fields of physics and chemistry. “Quantum computing could be potentially transformative, enabling us to solve problems that are impossible or impractical to solve today,” […] More

The government of New York has partnered with IBM, Micron, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron and other companies to invest $10 billion in the establishment of a new semiconductor research and development facility at the Albany NanoTech Complex in the state. The facility will be equipped with an ASML-built high-numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography system, which IBM used to develop the world’s first 2 nanometer node chip in 2021, the company said Tuesday.

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IBM is investing $100 million in a new initiative to develop a 100,000-qubit quantum-centric supercomputer intended to support research in areas including climate change and clean energy The University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago will work with IBM over the next decade to design and build the quantum systems’ components and underlying technologies, […] More

IBM has announced plans to invest $20 billion in the state of New York’s Hudson Valley Region over the next decade to advance discoveries in the field of semiconductors, quantum computers, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. The announcement coincides with the visit of President Joe Biden to IBM’s manufacturing site in Poughkeepsie, New York, the […] More

IBM, BAE Systems and General Dynamics presented at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference their hybrid cloud services that can be moved from one system to another, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

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IBM has unveiled an open source platform designed to help organizations manage workloads and applications across multiple cloud computing systems. The company said Monday its Multicloud Manager includes a dashboard where users can oversee businesses, security and governance processes through various cloud systems from different providers. The technology is designed to run on IBM’s Cloud Private […] More

IBM and Red Hat have agreed to expand their partnership to help clients speed up the adoption of hybrid cloud platforms. The companies will work to help clients develop and deploy containerized applications to the hybrid cloud through the use of IBM Cloud Private platform and Red Hat OpenShift container offering, IBM said Tuesday. IBM […] More