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The Burlington facility spanned {{convert|700|acre|km2}} and was the primary site of domestic semiconductor manufacture for IBM before 2002.<ref name=vermontbiz /><ref name=eetimes1>{{cite web | last=Staff writer | date=May 14, 2002 | url=https://www.eetimes.com/ibm-reportedly-looks-to-sell-part-of-vermont-fab-site/ | title=IBM reportedly looks to sell part of Vermont fab site | work=EETimes | publisher=AspenCore | archiveurl=http://archive.today/2023.01.24-192840/https://www.eetimes.com/ibm-reportedly-looks-to-sell-part-of-vermont-fab-site/ | archivedate=January 24, 2023}}</ref> In 1966, this factory produced the first mass manufactured [[Semiconductor memory|semiconductor]] [[Dynamic random-access memory|DRAM]], based on [[Robert H. Dennard]]'s patents developed for IBM in 1966. Such chips were later used in the company's [[IBM System/370 Model 145|System/370 Model 145]] mainframe, the first computer built entirely from integrated circuits, abandoning the [[core memory]] of old. Employment in the Burlington facility peaked in the mid-1990s, with roughly 8,500 employees.<ref name=vermontbiz>{{cite web | last=McQuiston | first=Timothy | date=June 30, 2015 | url=https://vermontbiz.com/news/2015/june/30/ibm-thanks-memories | title=IBM, thanks for the memories | work=Vermont Business Magazine | archiveurl=http://archive.today/2023.01.24-194203/https://vermontbiz.com/news/2015/june/30/ibm-thanks-memories | archivedate=January 24, 2023}}</ref> Meanwhile, The Hudson Valley Research Park facility in [[East Fishkill, New York]], spanned {{convert|464|acre|km2}} and was the primary site of semiconductor wafer and packaging manufacture after 2002.<ref name=poughkeepsiejournal2015 />

In 2002, as part of a wave of major layoffs within IBM cutting 15,600 jobs by August that year,<ref name=wp>{{cite webnews | last=Staff writer | date=August 14, 2002 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2002/08/14/ibm-cutting-15600-jobs/00df405d-a9f1-4ff7-bdb1-db9182fb4b4f/ | title=IBM Cutting 15,600 Jobs | worknewspaper=The Washington Post | archiveurl=http://archive.today/2023.01.24-200248/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2002/08/14/ibm-cutting-15600-jobs/00df405d-a9f1-4ff7-bdb1-db9182fb4b4f/ | archivedate=January 24, 2023}}</ref> the company let go 1,500 people in their Microelectronics facility in Burlington and East Fishkill. This layoff primarily affected the former, which had employed 7,000.<ref name=cnnmoney>{{cite web | last=Richtmyer | first=Richard | date=June 4, 2002 | url=https://money.cnn.com/2002/06/04/technology/ibm/index.htm | title=IBM cuts more jobs, sets charge | work=CNNMoney | publisher=AOL–Time Warner | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020805133327/https://money.cnn.com/2002/06/04/technology/ibm/index.htm | archivedate=August 5, 2002}}</ref><ref name=Mokhoff2003>{{cite web | last=Mokhoff | first=Nicolas | date=August 19, 2003 | url=https://www.eetimes.com/ibm-lays-off-500-at-vermont-microelectronics-plant-2/ | title=IBM lays off 500 at Vermont microelectronics plant | work=EETimes | publisher=AspenCore | archiveurl=http://archive.today/2023.01.24-200417/https://www.eetimes.com/ibm-lays-off-500-at-vermont-microelectronics-plant-2/ | archivedate=January 24, 2023}}</ref> Executives at IBM called the layoffs part of a restructuring of the Microelectronics Division, whose business was to move toward operating as a [[chip foundry]] on a [[Contract manufacturer|contract]] basis, instead of mass manufacturing its own wares to sell onto the semiconductor market.<ref name=cnnmoney /> A large portion of IBM's Microelectronics operations in Vermont was spun off into a new company, Endicott Interconnect Technologies (EI), in 2002.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burton | first=Terrence T. | date=2011 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Accelerating_Lean_Six_Sigma_Results/LSZMLC1t3KsC | title=Accelerating Lean Six Sigma Results: How to Achieve Improvement Excellence in the New Economy | publisher=J. Ross | page=81 | isbn=9781604270549 | via=Google Books}}</ref> Another layoff the Vermont factory in 2003 reduced the headcount by 500, with 6,000 employees remaining.<ref name=Mokhoff2003 />

==2015 sale to GlobalFoundries==