IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
IBM has announced the establishment of Anderon, the first pure-play quantum chip foundry in the U.S., backed by a $2 billion CHIPS quantum package. The initiative includes $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Commerce and $1 billion from IBM, aiming to enhance American quantum capabilities. This move is expected to create thousands of high-paying jobs while positioning IBM at the forefront of quantum technology.
- ▪IBM's Anderon will be headquartered in Albany, New York, as a standalone 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility.
- ▪The U.S. government will receive minority equity stakes in each of the nine quantum companies involved in the initiative.
- ▪The funding structure aims to concentrate resources on superconducting silicon while distributing smaller investments across other quantum modalities.
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Analyst(s): Brendan Burke Publication Date: May 22, 2026 A $2 billion CHIPS quantum package spanning nine companies positions IBM’s 300mm Anderon foundry as the centerpiece of American quantum industrial policy, while spreading smaller bets across competing modalities including trapped ion, photonic, and neutral atom approaches. What is Covered in this Article IBM’s creation of Anderon as a pure-play quantum foundry The 300mm fabrication bet versus 200mm CMOS alternatives U.S. government quantum industrial policy via CHIPS incentives Superconducting silicon’s iteration advantage over trapped ion approaches IBM’s ASIC control architecture enabling scalable fault-tolerant systems The News: IBM and the U.S.
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