POWER to the people: A history of chipmaking at IBM

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Anonymous Reader writes “In the last decade alone, IBM scientists have announced one semiconductor breakthrough after another: copper technology, silicon-on-insulator, silicon germanium, strained silicon, and low-k dielectrics. All of these technologies came out of IBM’s fertile in-house research community. This prowess in modern chipmaking know-how didn’t come out of a vacuum — rather, it came out of the hermetically-sealed clean rooms of the most advanced R & D department in the semiconductor industry.”

Link: ibm.com/developerworks