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A US$2 billion push aims to bring quantum chip production to New York

• IBM’s US$1 billion award will be matched by a US$1 billion cash contribution from the company to launch Anderon, a New York venture that will make quantum chips 1.
• The combined US$2 billion effort will back what is planned as the United States’ first dedicated quantum chip manufacturing site in New Albany, New York 2.
• The government is tying some support to ownership. Its US$375 million grant to GlobalFoundries, a contract chipmaker, comes with an equity stake of about 1% in the company, according to GlobalFoundries 2.
• Anderon will run a 300-millimeter quantum wafer foundry, a factory that makes chips on standard large semiconductor wafers 2. IBM says its qubits, the basic units of quantum computing, are built with advanced 300mm semiconductor fabrication tools 3.

Washington’s investment model could shape funding and the global quantum race

• The plan extends a U.S. industrial policy that funds companies in exchange for equity stakes. Washington has already used that model with Intel and MP Materials, a rare earth miner 1.
• That framework could spread to other supply chains the government wants to secure.
• Government backing may give private investors more confidence to assess quantum companies, even with technical hurdles and uncertain paths to revenue 1.
• The spending moves quantum beyond labs into national strategy. The U.S., China and Europe now treat the technology as infrastructure, alongside AI and semiconductors 4.