Canada plows another $210M into IBM’s Quebec chip plant - The Logic

https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/ibm-semiconductors-canada-investment/

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Grabthar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Why keep posting from this hard paywall site? If you have a sub, please post the article.

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

It opens for me using DDG.

Daryl@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
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zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What does ibm even do nowadays

toastmeister@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Phoenix pay.

k_rol@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They make tons of money in mainframe and consulting.

sbv@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They're still earning gazillions from patents, aren't they?

k_rol@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Oh probably

morbidcactus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

They seem to buy a lot, bought Hashicorp (terraform) recently, redhat was like 6 years ago now.

People I know there though, they work in the consulting arm.

ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

But IBM is an American company? Why is Canada now plowing $210M into Canadian chip companies/startups. Chips is the new oil.

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It is explained in the article. IBM Bromont is in Canada since 72 and since the Biden administration is trying to flee Taiwan for fear of the Chinese

sbv@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Isn't that accounting tomfoolery? They may be a separate legal entity, but aren't they wholly owned by the mother corp in the US? As such, profits and IP would flow directly back to the US, wouldn't they?

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y

Yes, absolutely. But since they’re here the gouv probably didn’t bother finding someone else to denazifyAmericanize

ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Xerox has been in Canada even longer but they are still an American company regardless. Just like Nintendo of America is still a Japanese company.

kandy4me@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Plows