The U.S. Just Bet $1 Billion on Quantum Chip Manufacturing
THE SO WHAT
A $1B CHIPS Act R&D award to IBM’s Anderon quantum foundry — matched by IBM — formalizes quantum as a manufacturing problem, not just a lab race. Hardware and cloud vendors should assume a future where quantum capacity is capacity-constrained fab infrastructure, and start mapping which workloads justify early access.
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