1 - Audit your customers

2 - Buy back shares

3 - Force early retirements

It was easy to see why Watson failed in that environment. The revenue was “We’ll let you out of the $6mm audit bill if you buy $2mm of Watson”. Companies would agree, install better asset management, and never put Watson into production.

I couldn’t imagine Quantum Comouting surviving there. Spinning it off the best play.

I’m not IBMologist but I do remember how IBM pushed Watson when it was clear that upper management had no idea what Watson actually was. Regardless of the viability of the underlying technology, it’s best to keep such things away from the consultants.

Also, article is very difficult to read. Bad typeface, spacing, coherence and prose. I found the press release less strained.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/ibm-and-u-s-department-of-commerce-...

https://quantware.com/news/quantware-raises-178-million

For the most part it seems to be rent-a-programmer “consulting”.

But then articles like this come up where they seem to still have research capability.

They bailed out of pc hardware long ago, do they still do mainframes - maybe mainframes don’t exist any more?

I'm surprised it has zero mention of potential advantages of trapped ion despite being superior on stability windows, accuracy, and operating temps.

I also appreciate the disclosure about AI generated content, but this article gets too repetitive.

So much for capitalism.

-do the chips help with inference?

-can you run Doom on the chips?