IBM Microelectronics Company Description
Big Blue is big in chips, too. Through its microelectronics arm, International Business Machines (IBM) is one of the world's top makers of semiconductors. IBM has been a major player in the chip world for decades; it pioneered such key technologies as DRAM cells and the use of germanium in specialized chips. It is a top maker of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and static RAM (SRAM) chips, and a major supplier of chips for communications applications, including wireless phones and networking equipment. IBM Microelectronics also offers extensive contract manufacturing, or foundry, services, through which it manufactures chips for other companies.
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