IBM Gets Allies to Chip Away at Intel

International Business Machines Corp. has enlisted Google Inc. and some other high-tech allies for a collective effort to catapult an IBM chip technology out of a shrinking niche.

The alliance the companies plan to announce Tuesday would allow many companies to license IBM microprocessor designs — based on a technology dubbed Power — that are now only found in Big Blue’s own server systems. Licensees could incorporate IBM-designed circuitry in their own chips, with members of the alliance working on related products such as servers, networking and storage devices, participants said.

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