IBM is acquiring HRL Laboratories, the research organization jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, as it looks to expand beyond superconducting qubits and strengthen its quantum computing ambitions.
IBM is launching Anderon, a standalone quantum chip foundry company backed by a proposed $1 billion CHIPS award and another $1 billion from IBM itself. The move signals a major push to keep quantum manufacturing and innovation rooted in the United States.
IBM and an international team of researchers have created a never-before-seen molecule whose electrons travel in a corkscrew-like pattern, and proved its exotic properties using a quantum computer.