# IBM spent years creating copper interconnects IBM spent decades trying to enable copper interconnects, stock price bump but the knowledge quickly spread throughout the industry and IBM * [CHIPS Act + The Future of Microelectronics — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+x95k3SIcw/10:17) * See: [[limManyFacesAbsorptive2009]] (from [[Hassan Khan]]) * Evidence for * [[It is hard to capture value from research]]