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"IBM Research" in Albany, New York "on the Chopping Block"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025,
updated Dec 01, 2025

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IBM Announces All Future Chips on the IBM Quantum Development Roadmap to be Fabricated at NY Creates’ Albany NanoTech Complex

IBM Research at Albany is a cutting-edge facility located at the heart of New York's Tech Valley. With over 20 years of partnership between IBM, the State of New York, and many academic institutions across the country

Published 12 minutes ago by some anonymous person was a comment that said "Albany site too is on chopping block."

"It will be reduced to a bare bones crew for a specific project by this time next year," it said, referring to what happened in Brazil last month ("IBM Research" closure [1, 2, 3]).

This comment seems plausible not just because of what happened in Brazil but also because of other recent comments about staff in Albany. This, for instance, was just months ago:

Albany is broken. Disfunctional at best and has been limping along for some time now. It’s more favoritism and cronyism then what’s other have said on here. Albany leadership is in desperate need of a refresh.

IBM's latest propaganda is, people who don't want systemd, Rust, Wayland etc. are basically like nazis, never mind if IBM itself was the principal enabler of Nazi Germany and profited a lot from Nazi Germany. The "Father" of IBM was a Hitler admirer, so we kindly caution IBM employees not to go in this sort of direction with their smears against "Community-Run Distros".


Update: A few moments ago in another thread:

Research site in Albany gonna end up much the same way. It won’t flat-out shut its doors — IBM will always have a boot on the ground there — but don’t fool yourself - it’s gonna be cut way down to a fraction of folks keepin’ one lone specific project alive

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