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Is IBM back to semiconductor business?!!!

homran

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I know that IBM had exit the SC business long time ago.
I am surprised to see IBM listed in wikichips table for technologies down to 20nm.
Any clue?
 
There has been discussion of INTC. IBM keeps
changing. I think AMD new Zen cpu architecture
is possibly ahead of INTC because IBM discontinued
hardware design and layed off the very good IBM EDA and
hardware engineers that moved to AMD.
 
IBM still does R&D at Albany, far below 20nm processes, including EUV. They don't own fabs but they still have lots of people doing R&D, generating technology. Fabless would not be an inaccurate statement. GF bought the fabs, but also a supply agreement to make IBM chips down to the 14nm. This isn't news frankly, only the Intel partnering with them aspect.
 
Thanks for your responses! Anyway, IBM has research labs, but they don't run commercial fabs. In this case, I think they should be removed from wikichips table below. Any other thoughts?
 
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