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To: Mark Einkauf who wrote (38575)	3/21/2000 12:44:00 PM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 93625

re: Do you have an original source? quote.bloomberg.com

To: Mark Einkauf who wrote (38575)	3/21/2000 12:45:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

IBM Unveils Memory Chips to Speed Data Processing (Update1) By Jeff Bliss IBM Unveils Memory Chips to Speed Data Processing (Update1) (Updates stock prices.) Armonk, New York, March 21 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer maker, introduced computer-memory chips that it said can send twice as much data to a microprocessor as current memory chips. The new memory chips accelerate the delivery of information to processors so commands can be carried out faster. IBM's servers, which run networks of personal computers and Web sites, will be the first to use the new chips. IBM and other server makers are trying to develop faster computers to handle an onslaught of data from the Internet. Some are focusing on putting faster chips in their PCs, while others such as IBM want to make server memory and processors faster. ``While much attention has been given to the race to 1 gigahertz (processors) for PCs, server-system performance is likely to have a much greater impact on e-commerce and the Internet economy,' said Hank Geipel, an IBM vice president for advanced products and technology development. IBM's new chips may be a further setback for Rambus Inc. because they're based on double-data-rate technology, or DDR, a rival to Rambus chips. Mountain View, California-based Rambus's shares fell 20 percent yesterday after a Web site claimed its chips didn't work as well as older and cheaper memory. DDR chips are better for bigger servers and Rambus is more suited for PCs, IBM said. ``It's not that we're touting DDR over Rambus,' said Mark Kellogg, a senior technical staff member in IBM's memory operation. Shares of Armonk, New York-based IBM rose 1 1/4 to 114 in late-morning trading. Rambus fell 23 1/64 to 294, rebounding from a slide to 240 earlier quote.bloomberg.com

To: Mark Einkauf who wrote (38575)	3/21/2000 12:45:00 PM
From: Marcel	Respond to of 93625

yahoo.cnet.com IBM experiment could lead to higher-capacity storage drives By Bloomberg News March 17, 2000, 9:05 a.m. PT ARMONK, N.Y.--IBM said it has discovered chemical reactions that may lead to the development of data-storage drives that hold 100 times more information than devices today. Researchers at IBM, the world's largest computer maker, found a way to chemically force tiny magnetic particles to automatically arrange themselves. In the arrangement, the particles, which could contain bits of information, could be packed together tightly and precisely. The discovery stems from IBM's research into "nanoscience," the study of matter the size of 40-billionths of an inch. The need for higher-capacity hard drives is increasing as companies and consumers look for ways to store reams of digital information, video and music. "This scientific discovery could lead to new solutions for storing the huge volumes of data generated worldwide," Currie Munce, IBM Research's director of storage systems and technology, said in a statement. In the IBM experiment, scientists put molecules containing iron and platinum into a heated solution. The molecules reacted with each other, forming into iron-platinum particles that are coated in a substance similar to olive oil. The particles are put on a surface and allowed to dry, which causes them to spread out in even rows, much like balls rolling on a floor. "Nature does (the even spacing) for free," said Dieter Weller, one of the researchers that discovered the reactions. Researchers put the particles into an oven and heated them for a half hour. The heat fixed the particles in place, coated them with carbon and made them magnetic. The magnetic particles could possibly hold data. Results from the work of the research team, which was led by Shouheng Sun and included Liesl Folks, Christopher Murray and Andreas Moser, will be published in tomorrow's issue of Science Magazine