IBM And Hitachi Unite!
Although they are not currently represented into the desktop processors market by any product, IBM has always been a company leading the way into research and development of computer processors, and now they are teaming up with Hitachi to bring the industry to a whole new leavel.
Today, IBM and Hitachi announced a research agreement that would allow them to improve semiconductor technology, and the most important part of the whole deal is - in my opinion - the fact that this may lead to an early arrival of the 32nm and 22nm semiconductors on the market.
While it's obvious that smaller circuits allow increased performance for less power, manufacturing is also more efficient, which leads to reduced costs - or at least that's both IBM and Hitachi hope to achieve.
Since this agreement was signed for the next two years, and Intel claimed recently to expect its 22nm chips by 2011, I guess IBM and Hitachi will arrive in the first place in the race for the 22nm chip, but - as usual - that's something only time will tell.
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