Reuters: Technology News: IBM forms alliance with Google, Nvidia to boost chips unit

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IBM forms alliance with Google, Nvidia to boost chips unit Aug 6th 2013, 16:24 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News US STOCKS-Wall Street dips; American Eagle hits retailers 9:56am EDT PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Aug 6 1:18am EDT SEC investigating IBM over cloud revenue Wed, Jul 31 2013 IBM cooperating with SEC on investigation of cloud revenue Wed, Jul 31 2013 The IBM logo is seen outside the company's offices in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv October 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Nir Elias Tue Aug 6, 2013 12:24pm EDT (Reuters) - Technology services provider IBM is teaming up with Google and a handful of other tech companies to license IBM's Power chip technology, in an effort to attract more users. Under the alliance called OpenPower Consortium, IBM and Google - along with Israel's chip designer Mellanox Technologies, U.S. chip-maker Nvidia Corp and Taiwan-based server supplier Tyan Computer Corp - will build server, networking and storage technology based on the chips for cloud data centers. The hardware and software, previously proprietary to IBM, will be available to open development and it will be licensable to others, IBM said in a statement. The alliance is open to any company that wants to participate and innovate on the platform, IBM said. IBM competes with Intel Corp and ARM Holdings' chips, which dominate the market. Revenue from IBM Power Systems was down 25 percent in the second quarter compared with the previous year. (Reporting By Nicola Leske; editing by Jim Marshall) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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