ADVISORY/Photo of A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Commemorating A Joint Technology Development Center Between Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., IBM and Toshiba in Austin, Texas is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's.Photo/Business Editors and High Tech Writers ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) The photo is BW1 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wires Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.041101/bw1 Photo caption reads: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment, Incorporated SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Toshiba Corporation today launched a joint technology development center in Austin, Texas to support the design of an advanced "supercomputer-on-a-chip" for a new wave of broadband-attached, pervasive devices. Less than a month after announcing a collective investment of more than $400 million to develop a new genre of microchips, code-named "Cell," IBM, SCEI and Toshiba have established a design center that will be staffed with nearly 300 skilled computer architects and chip designers dedicated to the project. To commemorate the milestone (pictured, from left), Takeshi Nakagawa, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for the Semiconductor Company of Toshiba Corporation; Dr. John Kelly, senior vice president and group executive for the IBM Technology Group; and Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO of SCEI participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony A ribbon cutting ceremony is a public ceremony conducted to inaugurate the opening to the general public of a new building or business. Often, it is conducted in just the manner the name suggests: by tying a ceremonial ribbon across the main entrance of the building, which at the design center located within IBM's facility in Austin, Texas. (Business Wire photo) CONTACT: Chris Andrews, IBM Corporation, 845-892-5389, candrews@us.ibm.com |
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