A forty-five-year strategic partnership across PCs, cloud, AI, and the next generation of silicon.
Forty-five years of decisions, products, and announcements — sourced from the financial press, the IBM newsroom, and the Intel timeline. Newest first.
A five-year extension of the IBM-Lam collaboration to enable High-NA EUV lithography and sub-1nm nodes — building on the world's first 2nm chip from 2021.
Read the milestoneIBM and Intel announce Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators on IBM Cloud, with extension into watsonx.ai for inferencing across hybrid environments.
Read the case studyA $10 billion combined investment to scale advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. — anchored at Albany NanoTech with $1B from New York State and $9B in private commitments.
Read the milestone2× compute density, 6× cache performance, 1.5× memory speed, 80 PCIe Gen 5 lanes per server — the foundation that made Gaudi 3 deployment possible the next year.
Read the caseForbes Tirias coverage positions Albany as the working template for what the CHIPS Act is trying to scale — joint logic, packaging, and lithography research with IBM, Intel, and a wider ecosystem.
A milestone in the joint logic and device-architecture work compounding at IBM Research and the Albany NanoTech Complex — and the foundation the 2026 sub-1nm work builds on.
5,884,500 shares sold for an $80 million after-tax profit. IBM exits the equity stake but holds about 6% of outstanding shares — and continues as Intel's largest customer, accounting for roughly 10% of Intel sales.
IBM purchases 6.25 million Intel shares during a difficult moment for the chip industry. The press calls it strategic. Intel calls it independence-preserving. Both are right — and the partnership begins.
The single design choice that defined a category. The 8088 inside the IBM Personal Computer creates the architecture that runs most enterprise computing today — and the relationship that produced everything above.