Mobility

IBM Corp. has come up with a method of letting molecules assemble themselves inside chip structures to form nanoscale structures that add redundancy and performance improvements to chips, the company said.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will unveil the first product of its recently announced partnership with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD): a blade server based on AMD's 1.53 GHz Mobile Athlon XP 1800+ processor. The Sun Fire B100 blade server will be the first AMD-based system designed by Sun, the company said.

IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software will shift its Workplace strategy into high gear next year with the addition of several tools and features that enable flexible collaboration via J2EE and Web services.