--- title: "Suzhou PowerCore Technology Co. Intends To Use IBM POWER Technology For Chip Design That Pushes Innovation In China" date: "2014-01-19" categories: - "press-releases" - "blogs" --- ARMONK, N.Y. and JIANGSU, China, Jan. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM \[NYSE: IBM\], the Suzhou PowerCore Technology Company and the Research Institute of Jiangsu Industrial Technology today announced the two Chinese organizations will join the OpenPOWER Foundation, with Suzhou PowerCore intending to use IBM's POWER architecture to provide customized chip design solutions to push server innovation in such areas as Big Data, cloud computing and next generation data centers.