October 2012 – On chipdesign day at the ARM Techcon in Santa Clara, a joint session between Cadence and IBM presented the results of new ARM IP at the 14nm node. The SOI process developed by IBM is an advanced FinFET flow that incorporated an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, SRAM memory blocks and a number of…
May 9, 2012, All About the Cloud Conference, San Francisco—Stephen Gold from IBM described next generation computers based upon recently demonstrated capabilities, such as those in the Watson system. The new systems will be instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent and will enable new ways to use data. Today, most data is unstructured. Users need to take…
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramanian Iyer from IBM looked the issues to “Keeping Moore’s Law Alive” in his presentation at the Computer History Museum, a fitting place for a technology forecast. From an IDM perspective, the primary questions are: is there a problem, what to do about scaling, and what are…
March 14, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA — Gary Patton, vice president of semiconductor R & D at IBM, described the world beyond 14 nm. The device and process developments will be hard, as the fundamental limitations of physics come into place. Scaling flattened out about 10 years ago, so the next generations…
February, 24, 2012. Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Becky Swain from the Cloud Security Alliance offered five questions people should get answers for when evaluating cloud providers and their security. The responses are based on work the CSA has been doing on standards and governance. The full guidance document comprises177 pages, and only covers general…
February 14, 2012, cloud connect conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jan Jackman from IBM talked about going to market and the value chain ecosystem. The cloud offers potential for great opportunities for change and business practice improvements, but can also become a black hole. A recent internal IBM survey found that involvement with cloud infrastructure enhances the…
IBM Blue Gene Q August 24, 2011, Hot Interconnects 19, Santa Clara, CA—Philip Heidelberger from IBM described the interconnection and message unit of the latest IBM supercomputer, Blue Gene Q. This machine is currently a R&D project, but will become the third generation of massively parallel computers for large scale scientific and analytic applications. The…
August 8, 2011, Hot Chips 23, Stanford, CA—Ruud Haring from IBM described the latest Blue Gene massively parallel supercomputer. He noted that one of the system design objectives included capabilities to move supercomputing from the scientific community to commercial applications. Design objectives included reducing the total cost of operations and achieve greater power efficiency. In…