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IBM Just Showed Off a Chip That Runs Two Instruction Sets at Once. The Company Is 115 Years Old. Most Companies That Old Are Dead.
IBM's new dual-ISA mainframe chip is the same trick it's pulled for 115 years. Sears is the same age and it's dead. The difference isn't adaptation — it's whether whoever controls a company has to live with what happens to it, tested against Sears, Standard Oil, AT&T, Xerox, and Kodak.
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Two-Thirds of the Fortune 500 Are Legally Delaware Companies. Almost None of Them Are Actually There.
Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are legally incorporated in Delaware without being headquartered there -- a legal address worth nearly a th...
IBM Anchored Research Triangle Park for 60 Years. It's Packing Up the Same Year the Region Pulled In $10.8 Billion.
Research Triangle Park opened in 1959 as a deliberate state bet on three nearby universities. IBM anchored it for sixty years as its larg...
Nvidia Made $62.3 Billion in a Single Quarter Selling Chips for Data Centers. Virginia, Home to More of Them Than Anywhere on Earth, Just Considered 61 Bills to Restrict Them.
Loudoun County, Virginia is "Data Center Alley" -- the highest concentration of data centers on the planet. In 2026, the same state ran 6...
The US Makes 12% of the World's Semiconductors, Down From 37% in 1990. Micron — Born in a Boise Basement — Just Broke Ground on the Fab Meant to Help Fix That.
US semiconductor manufacturing has fallen from 37% of world supply in 1990 to about 12% today. Micron, founded in 1978 in the basement of...
Texas Built Its Power Grid to Stay Outside Federal Regulation. In 2021, That Choice Helped a Storm Kill Hundreds. In 2026, the Same Failure Happened Again.
Texas's electric grid stays deliberately isolated from the rest of the country's, a choice made in the 1930s specifically to avoid federa...
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