I wanted to share with you the following article that was published by the Poughkeepsie Journal:

By Craig Wolf | Published 9:49 pm, January 31, 2015

IBM has firmed up its plan to stay in the chip innovation business even as it moves forward to exit the manufacturing part of the game.

The move announced Friday is simple. The contingent of IBM scientists and engineers, about 220 of them, who work at New York's hot high-tech research center, Albany NanoTech, will formally become part of IBM Research.

That, of course, is essentially what they've been doing – research for IBM, and other partners in the very successful team enterprise whose early roots date back to Gov. Mario Cuomo, which got massive support from Gov. George Pataki and has been pushed forward by every governor and key political leader since, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

This work supports IBM's two facilities in Dutchess County, among others. One is the East Fishkilll chip manufacturing complex, which will be sold to GlobalFoundries under a deal the two companies expect to close this year, after which Global will be IBM's chip supplier.

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