IBM and SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) announced that more than 220 engineers and scientists who lead IBM's advanced chip research and development efforts at SUNY Poly's Albany Nanotech campus will become part of IBM Research, the technology industry's largest and most influential research organization.

The move supports Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's public-private partnership model for innovation and economic development and is part of IBM's $3 billion investment in chip R&D over the next five years. These efforts will push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing, Big Data, and cognitive computing systems.

The $3 billion investment that IBM announced in July 2014 focuses on the development of basic materials science to make it possible to shrink semiconductors to 7 nanometers and beyond, as well as support research into completely new areas beyond traditional silicon architectures, such as synaptic computing, quantum devices, carbon nanotubes, and photonics, that could transform computing of all kinds.

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by Ralph Rio in Analytics & Big Data, Industrial IT and Cloud Computing February 3, 2015