Though his father had turned IBM into a tremendously successful company, the firm that Thomas Jr. inherited was largely a mix ... Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, ...
“The resulting growth of LLMs … is requiring exponential growth in high-speed connections between chips and data centers,” IBM Research engineer John Knickerbocker said. IBM Research has ...
Because of IBM’s big company status, however, it was free to heavily invest in research and development, and by 1956 it had surpassed its competitors in the computer market.