In pictures: Celebrating 100 years of IBM

2006: IBM announces it will collaborate on the design, engineering and manufacturing of customised high performance, low power consumption microprocessors, to will be used in thousands of antennae spread across the globe - similar to the ones shown here. The antennae will be used to capture radio signals from deep in space as part of an effort to build the world's largest radio telescope to look at and understand the very origins of the universe.

Also: CIO Blast from the Past - 110 Years of IBM technology.