Updated: 07/16/03

EIT News

07/16/03 - X-IBMers employed at EIT, the former IBM Endicott, NY, Microelectronics panel manufacturing plant, won a major contract with IBM in May of 2003, for Endicott Interconnect Technologies.
EIT was awarded a major contract to build and assemble super computer boards for IBM’s super computer project, Blue Gene/L. A great tribute to the former IBM employees, now employed by EIT. This contract would not have been awarded to EIT if not for the skilled and exceptional workforce.

Blue Gene/L research was done by IBM and supported by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security agency. The super computer will take up an area equivalent to two tennis courts. It will have the computing power of the worlds top 500 super computers and do 200 trillion calculations per second. For more information on IBM’s Blue Gene/L project and research use this link: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/

This will create great challenge and work for the EIT Company and its talented employees. It is expected that the Blue Gene/L assembly work alone with bring EIT’s complex board assembly, to half capacity.

EIT employees are well worth their pay, to do this type of advanced panel manufacturing and should be very proud of this accomplishment. Employees of this caliber certainly deserve great respect. The best way to respect them, would be employment contracts that protect their wages and benefits. That's where Alliance@IBM/CWA, EIT chapter can help. EIT Signup Form - print this and mail it in. All member names are strictly confidential.