The National EUV Accelerator comes to Albany

(research.ibm.com)

26 points | by sandwichsphinx 5 hours ago ago

14 comments

  • osnium123 18 minutes ago

    According to the Oregonian, Intel and Oregon were hoping to land this center.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/10/biden-admi...

  • parpfish 3 hours ago

    What’s the status of IBM these days? They are treated like an obsolete dinosaur in my tech circles, but they’re so big that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they are actually cutting edge in some areas (particularly in capital intensive stuff)

    • KK7NIL an hour ago

      Their semiconductor IP division has been cutting edge for decades (particularly before TSMC got copper working).

      They kind of act like a bridge between academia and industry, helping to develop academic ideas into something that's viable for high volume manufacturing.

    • matmatmatmat 2 hours ago

      I can't speak to most of what they do, but they seem to be at the forefront of quantum computing.

    • TechDebtDevin an hour ago

      They placed all their bets on enterprise cloud + Quantum.

      • grugagag 17 minutes ago

        Azure and AWS?

        • TechDebtDevin 7 minutes ago

          Well they certainly aren't the biggest but their cloud operation is still pretty large and somewhat nice. Noone is even close to IBM in Quantum cloud offerings.

          IBM q2 revenue- 16bb AWS q2 revenue- 26bb Azure q2 revenue 24bb

          I really don't understand why people say IBM is dying, its literally one of the most successful and revenue producing companies in the world with plenty of room for growth with their investments in Quantum. The just don't provide as many consumer facing products so everyone assume's they're dead.

          • grugagag a minute ago

            I personally don’t know much about quantum or IBM. How relevant are they today? Are they going to become more relevant tomorrow?

    • Hikikomori an hour ago

      Afaik they're partnered with Samsung on the fab side.

  • jmclnx 4 hours ago

    In this day and time, I'll believe it when it really happens. Depending on what happens next week, the CHIPS act could be repealed early next year.

  • jonkoops 2 hours ago

    Ah yes, the classic block the exports of your partners and throw a bunch of subsidies at your own. Thanks for the free market capitalism America!

    • WantonQuantum 34 minutes ago

      America never claimed to have a completely free market: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/031815/united-state...

    • onepointsixC an hour ago

      There is no free market in the fab business. Every single player had some level of government support and direct subsidies for decades.

    • ralph84 an hour ago

      Some things are more important than free market capitalism, and making sure you’re not dependent on hostile countries for key technology is one of them.