Such chips were later used in the company's System/370 Model 145 mainframe (1970), IBM's first computer built entirely from integrated circuits, abandoning the core memory of old.
[6] Meanwhile, The Hudson Valley Research Park facility in East Fishkill, New York, spanned 464 acres (1.88 km2) and was the primary site of semiconductor wafer and packaging manufacture after 2002.
[1] In 2002, as part of a wave of major layoffs within IBM cutting 15,600 jobs by August that year,[8] the company let go of 1,500 people in their Microelectronics facility in Burlington and East Fishkill.
[9][10] Executives at IBM called the layoffs part of a restructuring of the Microelectronics Division, whose business was to move toward operating as a chip foundry on a contract basis, instead of mass manufacturing its own wares to sell onto the semiconductor market.
[10] Following a year of discussion,[12][13] in 2015, IBM divested its entire Microelectronics Division, now only comprising the East Fishkill and Burlington facilities, to GlobalFoundries—itself a spin-off of once long-time rival AMD.
A spokesperson for GlobalFoundries called the claims "meritless ... Quite frankly, this is very disappointing coming from a company we have such a long history and strong partnership with.