IBM Cuts Over 1,600 US Jobs

It looks like Watson will have its hands full picking up the slack after all these people got fired. Speaking of, IBM probably could have saved a bunch of jobs if it hadn't spent all that money developing supercomputers for game shows.

The Alliance@IBM union is reporting that over 1,600 jobs in the US have already been cut, including 165 from chip research and 121 from storage development. Given that the company is also working out ways of making supercomputer Watson pay its own way, it seems that no-one's immune to a spot of belt-tightening.

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