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The cases.
The record.

Forty-five years of decisions, products, and milestones — from the IBM PC to sub-1nm logic. The shortlist of where the partnership has produced something real.

Cases on record
Featured · Customer story

How IBM Cloud became Intel's launchpad for AI-grade infrastructure.

Two product generations — 4th Gen Xeon Bare Metal in 2023, Gaudi 3 in 2024 — and one coherent story about how an open AI alternative gets built in production.

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Gaudi 3 + watsonx.ai 4th Gen Xeon Bare metal
Frontier R&D · Mar 2026

Sub-1nm logic with Lam Research

A five-year extension of the IBM-Lam collaboration to advance sub-1nm scaling and High-NA EUV lithography — building on 2nm and pulling Intel-relevant R&D forward another generation.

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Ecosystem · Dec 2023

$10B NY chip partnership

New York anchors a $10 billion investment around IBM, Micron, Applied Materials, and Tokyo Electron — building the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem the CHIPS Act needs.

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AI Infrastructure · 2023

4th Gen Xeon on IBM Cloud

2× compute density, 6× cache performance, 1.5× memory speed, 80 PCIe Gen 5 lanes — bare metal foundation for everything that came after.

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2nm node · 2021

World's first 2nm node chip

IBM unveils the world's first 2nm node — a milestone in the joint logic and device-architecture work that has been compounding at IBM Research and Albany NanoTech.

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Foundational · Dec 1982

$250M equity stake

IBM purchases 6.25 million shares in Intel — a vote of confidence that the financial press, banking analysts, and Intel itself all read as strategic. The partnership begins.

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Origin · Aug 1981

IBM PC ships with Intel 8088

The decision that defined a category. The Intel 8088 inside the IBM Personal Computer creates the architecture that runs most enterprise computing today.

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The record, in numbers

Forty-five years of compounding choices.

45yrs
Joint history
$10B
NY chip ecosystem
2nm
World-first node
1st
Cloud with Gaudi 3

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