"We estimate the opportunity for providing these enhanced services could grow to nearly $6 billion within the next 5 years," says Patrick Toole, general manager of the new division. "For the first time, we have a single organization dedicated to providing comprehensive design services to our customers."
Original equipment manufacturers will be able to hire IBM to do their chip design, component fabrication, card and board assembly and the complete outsourcing of all aspects of design and manufacturing of subsystems and systems.