I worked at ibm research last century. They spent 6 billion on research. They had a chip fab in the building and still were making chips at the time. They h

I worked at ibm research last century. They spent 6 billion on research. They had a chip fab in the building and still were making chips at the time. They had a wide range of researchers (mathematicians, physicists , software). working on all sorts of stuff (very motivated). Lots of cooling gasses. The problem was trying to turn those inventions into something they could sell. Chip tech was sold to whoever they could.