I&#x27;m surprised only one comment here mentions patents. IBM are  filing patents as fast ever, and while they&#x27;re trying to get into &quot;the cloud&quot; like everyone else, I get the impression that they&#x27;re also still working on hardware R&amp;D, as well as the AI research that goes into projects such as Watson.<p>Also they calculate the Wimbledon serve speeds, so they&#x27;ve got that going for them which is nice.