International Business Machines Corp. plans to spend $3 billion on semiconductor research and development in the next five years, even as the company is said to be selling its chip-manufacturing arm. The company will fund two programs to create smaller, more powerful chips that can be used in systems like IBM’s Watson technology -- which analyzes data in plain English -- and to develop semiconductor parts out of materials other than silicon, according to a statement today. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-09/ibm-invests-3-billion-in-chips-amid-talks-to-sell-part-of-unit.html