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New IBM Plant Will Mass Produce .1 Micron Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-'em-small dept.

Ruger writes "AP News is carrying this story about IBM opening a new plant in upstate New York. What's most interesting about the story is that IBM will be producing .1 Micron Chips rather than the usual .25 or .18 produced by Intel and other chip makers, or .13 Micron chips they currently make for their PowerPC chips."

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  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah

  2. First Post? by Perl-Pusher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could it be?

  3. Imagine... by Libor+Vanek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... a boewulf - ah, damned!

    1. Re:Imagine... by TriCCer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      They acctually mark the "imagine a beowulf..."-post offtopic this one time when it's acctually ontopic =) gotta love the slashdot consistency =)

      I CAN imagine a beowulfcluster of these. who knows. maybe it would save space, if it was bundled with similar small hardware components.

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  4. Could it be? by NiftyNews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could it be that some lazy author just forgot a digit at the end?

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  5. Jobs? by imta11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone here hiring for this? I'd like a job as a chipmaker or lawnmower.

  6. Upstate, eh? by Glove+d'OJ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    East Fishkill is *so* no Upstate NY. Albany? That's upstate. Syracuse? Definitely upstate? Fishkill? No freaking way.

    East Fishkill is 1/2 way between NYC and the extension of the horizontal line that divides most of NY and PA.

    Dude, get your geography straight, or at least *look* at a map.

    (sheesh)

    WWJD? JWRTFM!

    1. Re:Upstate, eh? by mattreilly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Anything north of NYC is upstate.

  7. Re:Article slashdotted, here is the text by levik · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Slashdotted? What're you smoking? It's on excite!

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  8. Re:impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow! I've been living in the future for several years and I didn't even know it! Good thing old tps set me straight. ;)

  9. Re:Returning to the fold. by dbrutus · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    One company dominated towns are a horrible idea, always have been. IBM is a public company and if it benefits the stockholders to leave a town, they are legally obligated to do it.

    If you don't have a diverse economy that can take an IBM or a GM leaving, you have to fight like hell in the good times to grow one because if you don't the towns will shrivel up and die when they inevitably leave.

  10. Re:impressive by laertes · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In a few years, we may end up living in the future!

    As opposed to which of the alternatives: the past or the present.

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  11. Re:Returning to the fold. by The+Dobber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    60 miles north of NYC is hardly upstate. You gotta be north of, or west of Albany to be upstate.