TSMC to Challenge Intel Data Center Dominance with IBM Win

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Cheng Ting-Fang, TSMC to Challenge Intel Data Center Dominance with IBM Win. Nikkei Asian Review, Nov 19, 2018.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business ... nance-with-IBM-win2

Note: To become a chip designer only, IBM PAID Globalfoundries $1.5b to offload its (only) two chip production facilities (located near Albany, New York and Essex Junction, Vermont).  (The deal was announced on Oct 20, 2014 and completed on July 1, 2015.) "As part of the deal, GlobalFoundries said that it had agreed to an 'exclusive commitment to supply IBM with some of the world's most advanced semiconductor processors solutions for the next 10 years.'  '[GlobalFoundries] also gets direct access to IBM's continued investment in world-class semiconductor research, solidifying its path to advanced process geometries at 10nm and beyond,' GlobalFoundries said in a press release.  Unfortunately for IBM, GlobalFoundries -- for all of its boasting -- announced back in August that it had put its '7nm FinFET program on hold indefinitely.' " Ashraf Eassa. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Looks Set to Win IBM Chip Orders. Motley Fool, Nov 20, 2018 (brackets originally; citing the above Nikkei report).
(a) The IBM facilities near Albany were at town of Malta (22-mile air distance due north of Albany) and town of East Fishkill (~70-mile due south of Albany). East Fishkill "was once the eastern portion of the town of Fishkill." en.wikipedia.org for "East Fishkill, New York."  "The name derives from the Dutch vis kill, meaning 'fish creek.' "  en.wikipedia.org for "Fishkill (town), New York."
(b) Essex Junction, Vermont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Junction,_Vermont
(a village in town of Essex; Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides daily service via its station in Essex Junction, the only rail station in the Burlington, Vermont metropolitan area; IBM chose the village for its facility in 1958 with "workforce was a little over 5,000 in 2011 [I can not verify this; a news report instead said 4,000 employees in the 2 sites of IBM, including Malta];"  The village is 6 miles (10 km) east of downtown Burlington via Vermont Route 15 [not via air, that is])
(c) Dutch-English dictionary:
* vis (noun masculine): "fish"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vis
(D) English dictionary:
* kill (n; plural kills; from [Modern] Dutch [noun feminine] kil [creek], from Middle Dutch kille): "creek"  
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kill
   ^ accord
kill (body of water)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_(body_of_water)